Grew up a missionaries' kid in Mozambique and attended boarding school outside Nairobi, Kenya all the way through high school graduation. Came back to the USA and attended UNC Charlotte and got my bachelors in Mechanical Engineering. Charlotte, NC is the place I now call home.

I love sports, especially soccer, have a passion for meeting people of different cultures, spending quality late nights with friends with a beer in my hand, playing board games and laughing with family, helping others in any way I can.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To make trustworthy and meaningful contacts worldwide to make my dollar go further when travelling AND to help others with a couch or advice about my home town or places I've been.

Interests

-Travel : I like to rough it, live like the locals and forget about myself. I travel to really get to know a country, it's people, beliefs, food, and tradition.
-Sports: Huge Arsenal fan (soccer) and Carolina Panthers fan (NFL). I'm ready to take anyone, any time, any sport. Bring it!
-Automotive Repair: Just starting to get into this, trying to become more handy, everyone needs a friend to call when the car starts acting up!
-Spirituality: Everyone has two parts - physical and spiritual - I want to know what's going on deep inside. Are you spiritually dead or alive?
-Business: always up to discuss a new idea for a small business start-up.
-Learning: Must. Keep. Learning. Always.

• folklore
• acting
• dining
• beer
• board games
• traveling
• socializing
• sports
• soccer
• business
• engineering

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Reggae fan.
Movies: Pretty much every Tom Cruise movie if that gives you an idea. Film continues to get worse and worse in my opinion.
Books: Bible is #1 no doubt. Tom Clancy, John Grisham, C.S. Lewis

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Haha I hate talking about myself...

Saved a friend from death. He was swing from a vine above a river, vine snapped, hit his head on a rock and slipped under water unconscious. Like anyone would have done. I jumped in and pulled him out!

Side note: He never thanked me. Haha guess he really wasn't a friend.

What I Can Share with Hosts

A beer or two, and hopefully a good laugh.

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, England, Israel, Jamaica, Jordan, Malawi, Nicaragua, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Kenya, Mozambique, Portugal, United States