CURRENT MISSION

Plan a trip across Europe, starting late next spring

ABOUT ME

I love meeting new people and learning from about and them. Happy to cook a good meal and share a couple of drinks.

I am a music lover and try my hand at playing it when I am able.

PHILOSOPHY

It's tough to zero in on this. I think it would be best to discuss/debate this over good beer, wine, or coffee.

In the mean time, here are a few quotes I really like.

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music he hears,
however measured or far away."
-Henry David Thoreau

"If someone’s ungrateful and you tell him he’s ungrateful, okay, you’ve called him a name. You haven’t solved anything"
-Robert M. Pirsig

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Right now, planning a trip across Europe.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Always a host so far. I usually surf the coaches of people I have already met.

Interests

Music. I love learning a new insturment and getting together with friends for a good jam. I'm currently working on violin, mandolin, and banjo. I already play passable piano, guitar, harmonica, and trumpet.

Motorcycles. I love taking a long trip on a motorcycle. There is nothing quite like smelling the air and feeling the breeze cruising down the road at 80 mph. Once you try it, you'll hate being stuck in a car for a long trip. Not only that, you get some serious time to think doing some cross-country riding. Seriously, there is nothing like it.

• cooking
• wine
• beer
• coffee
• drinking
• motorcycles
• music
• live music
• guitar
• piano
• violin
• trumpet

Music, Movies, and Books

I'm loving jam music right now. Particularly string band jam, like Yonder Mountain String Band. I'm also been listening to a lot of bebop jazz and funk.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

"The more you look, the more you see"
-Robert M. Pirsig

Teach, Learn, Share

Definately music. Even better if it is live music. Go see a band, or dust off the insturments and jam a little bit at the house.

Countries I’ve Visited

Germany, Mexico

Countries I’ve Lived In

Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, United States