CURRENT MISSION

Cornbread

ABOUT ME

Doomed to give off the first impression of "kinda serious", yet my friends would probably attest to my absurd sense of humour, slack-jawed curiosity, and a willingness to explore and seek out a good laugh in the tiniest scintillas of life. I boast a borderline savant ability level with word games + geography trivia.

My life is split between the old copper-lit bustle of Montreal, QC and the blue-dappled woods of interior British Columbia, the kilometres spun loosely together by slow ballads.

I'm told that I'm engaging, and easy to talk to. I have a keen fondness for avocados, postcards, and the Balkan states.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'd take anyone (well, not ANYone, come on) on a walk or bike ride through Montreal, hopefully introducing you to some hidden gems that could be too-easily missed as a tourist.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have couchsurfed in Croatia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Hungary, as well as northern British Columbia, Alaska, Detroit and NYC.

Interests

Balcony gardening, vocalizing, photography, old growth forests, marsupials.

• photography
• gardening
• trivia
• cycling
• geography

Music, Movies, and Books

Michael Hurley, Can, Townes Van Zandt, Otis Redding, Songs: Ohia, Ketty Lester, Captain Beefheart, Kath Bloom, Will Oldham, Elfin Saddle,, Eric Dolphy, Eric Chenaux, highlife music, primitive folk music, etc.etc.

Film: 'Paris, Texas', 'Ushpizin', 'A Woman Under the Influence', 'Groundhog Day'

Authors: Tagore, Bulgakov, Murakami, Annie Dillard, David Berman, Patrick Lane, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, Ferlinghetti.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

+"Borrowing" a rowboat with mismatched oars on massive Lake Nicaragua, Island of Ometepe, getting swept away on the near-oceanic waves while narrowly avoiding a shipwreck situation on neighbouring Monkey Island (a strange islet filled with angry capuchin monkeys placed there by locals). No joke!

+Showing up at midnight in the Republic of Georgia with no guidebook and no plan, holding a ukulele.

+Eleven days on a train crisscrossing Canada in the dead of winter, making forever friends.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Georgia, Hungary, Mexico, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada