CURRENT MISSION

the present

ABOUT ME

I like dirt and rocks, trees and mountains, ice and snow, wind and rain, sunup and sundown, rivers and lakes, seas and islands, imaginary places and real ones, dark caves and big sky. And going really fast.

My work is mostly documentary and contract films. I spend summers working on a master's degree in nonfiction writing at the Sewanee School of Letters. These days, I'm mostly traveling to or from a story.

PHILOSOPHY

This is a great planet. To wish for anything else is the worst kind of blasphemy.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Official and unofficial. Moochdom on 5 continents. Pay forward that good hospitality.

Interests

Earth

• animals
• horses
• writing
• books
• performing arts
• documentaries
• dining
• baking
• drinking
• motorcycles
• movies
• traveling
• cars
• homesteading
• cartography
• geology
• lakes
• rivers
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

yes

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Thousands of wide albatrosses circling a lone Pyramid of rock in the South Pacific. Like pterodactyls. Like the Jurassic was yesterday.

Teach, Learn, Share

Human Narrative. fossils, evolution, motorcycles, motorcycles, motorcycles, cameras, images, time, performance, representation. bread baking, organic permaculture, homesteading, tramping, bugs, travel, EATING, food, drink, plants, animals, geology, ROCKS, The Earth, lizards, books, writing, dinosaurs, homemade electricity, toy airplanes, wood, horses, cars, human existence, the loves, muscally: guitarre, mandolin, harmonicas, drum kinds, sax-o-phones, Africa, the old appalachian mountain strongholds of old-world immigrant celtic strings interweaved and adapted to new continents. Maps. Opposable thumbs. The realm of the visible. The connotation of the invisible.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Belize, Costa Rica, Fiji, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mongolia, Morocco, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Russian Federation, Senegal, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

New Zealand, United States

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