CURRENT MISSION

moving to Buffalo, NY

PHILOSOPHY

What isn't important in life?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

- hosted by Sandy in Detroit, Michigan (December 2007)
- hosted by Hans-Morten Søvik in Sandefjord, Norway (March 2008)
- hosted by several wonderful people on my cross-country cycling trip last summer (June/July 2009): some of the hospitality we received and lodgings we got to stay in were unbelievable! Rural midwest, small-town Montana, places in the mountains, a lovely farm in Washington state, and a retro beach house in Anacortes, WA. Our trip wouldn't have been the same without Couchsurfing!

Interests

Old books, new books, red books, blue books.
Home-canned vegetables, garden-fresh herbs
Curries, soups, falafel.
Fountain pens, old paper, hand-stamps, etchings/rubbings.
The way society will function in 100, 1000 years or so.
Museums, libraries, cathedrals.
Parks, rivers, forest trails, mountain passes.

• books
• gardening
• stamps
• cycling
• beaches
• parks
• rivers
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

- Movies: Lost in Translation, The Seventh Seal, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amelie
- Music: The Innocence Mission, Sufjan Stevens, Kings of Convenience, Steve Reich, Radiohead, Mount Eerie, The Bee Gees
- Books: lots of them! some authors I like: Flannery O'Connor, William Morris, T.S. Eliot, Jacques Ellul, Jacques Derrida, George Orwell, Thomas Pynchon, Sylvia Plath, James Tate

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Iceland, Norway, Poland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom, United States

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