CURRENT MISSION

This is the same question the Guinean Military asked me when I was taken taken into custody for taking a photograph....

ABOUT ME

I love the energy of living in the big beautiful city of Chicago. There is so much to keep one busy here: architecture, culinary pleasures, history, art, eduction, music, greats pubs - all under the umbrella of excellent people watching.

Chicago is fantastic, however, its just a little too far from the mountains, the ocean and well - the rest of the world in general. So, I also love to travel inside and outside the USA. In fact just got back from Timbuktu!

I am also passionate about the outdoors. Its likely to find me biking, hiking or kayaking on/along the lake or taking a trip to explore mountains near and far.

PHILOSOPHY

Do unto other as you would have them do unto you!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Looking forward to hosting and meeting surfers and travelers.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Newbie

Interests

Traveling (48 countries & 48 US States so far!), History, Green Technology, Architecture, Economics, Ecology, Art, Mountains, Dreams, Photography, Chocolate, Russia, Wikipedia, Lenin, Marx, Smith, Kerouac, China, Trekking, Coffee, Maps, Dostoyevsky, Van Gogh, Buddhism,

• arts
• architecture
• photography
• chocolate
• coffee
• pub crawls
• technology
• traveling
• music
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• kayaking
• buddhist
• cartography
• ecology
• economics
• history
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

From Bowling for Columnbine to Titanic, Zeppelin to Miles Davis, Kerouac to Rand to Garcia-Marquez.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Trekked to the base of Mt. Everest and Climbed Mt. Raineer across massive glaciers and crevasses; Also I have done a cartwheel on several occasions. - OK that's three+....

Teach, Learn, Share

It is my goal to amass as much information as possible in hopes it will be useful in a conversation someday with someone I meet couchsurfing.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mexico, Monaco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Russian Federation, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States