CURRENT MISSION

to find the grail!

ABOUT ME

I love the world and I want to see as much of it as possible. I have been fortunate enough to travel fairly extensively around Europe and China and I hope to continue traveling throughout my life.

PHILOSOPHY

Life goes on.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm totally new here. Trying to find places to crash while I travel the UK in August. I would consider hosting in the future, once I have a place of my own, but I still live in the dorms at the moment.

Interests

linguistics, learning languages, astronomy, politics, theatre, satire, banter

• politics
• traveling
• astronomy
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

I'm a bibliophile of epic proportions.
Here's the abridged version of my favorite books list:
Lord of the Rings, Catch-22, A Song of Ice and Fire, His Dark Materials, Catcher in the Rye, Everything is Illuminated, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Discworld series, The Poisonwood Bible, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, To Kill a Mockingbird, Doctor Zhivago, Pale Fire, Anna Karenina, House of Leaves, The Sea Wolf, Shogun, Harry Potter, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Shogun, This Side of Paradise

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Once, when I was in China, I accidentally ate water buffalo lungs. They tasted like roast beef. ...So, now you know?