CURRENT MISSION

Hitchhike and discover the western United States

PHILOSOPHY

I have tried being what others want me to be, but i need to find who I want to be. I've found this to be much harder.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm a newbie to couchsurfing, although I've found myself awoken on many a couches.

Interests

Hiking, climbing, reading, writing, sleeping, music, NPR, documentaries, art, wondering, riding trains, conversing, short stories, poetry

• arts
• writing
• poetry
• documentaries
• reading
• music
• hiking
• backpacking
• rock climbing

Music, Movies, and Books

Bob Dylan, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius-Dave Eggers, Any Wes Andersen film, The Beatles, Charles Bukowski, I <3 Huckabees, Tobias Wolff, Dora the Explorer, Office Space, Radiohead, Of Montreal, Jack Karoac, Elliott Smith, Led Zeppelin, Joyce Carol Oates, Dave Chappell, Ralph Nader, David Cross

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Climbing for 6 hours to the top of a mountain with my brother. It was after a day of backpacking in the Canadian Rockies. The view from the summit was...almost spiritual; language cannot describe something of that proportion.