I'm bittersweet, but mostly sweet...Don't forget it. I love yerba mate more than most things. I love snow. I love rough housing. I love getting yelled at for rough housing. I love vodka. I love Lucy. I love "not letting the man get you down." I love cute little old men. I love people that live to shock the world(tastefully). I love Chicago. I love Madison. I love Germany. I love the Pacific Northwest. I love ppl that don't get offended by dbl dipping. I love humor. I love grammar. I love pin-up girls. I love storms. I love change.(not pocket change, but change change) I love it when people call me crazy. I do not love soccer moms. I do not love beauty pageants. I do not love ppl without opinion. I do not love diner coffee. I do not love being clumsy around attractive people. I do not love forgetting to shave my arm pits. I do not love snoring.
Life is beautiful even when it seems like you've reached your lowest and I want to live mine to the fullest. PHILOSOPHY I don't have life figured out completely but here's what I've got so far: *there will always be a higher high and a lower low(expect it) *there is no such thing as control...we are floating around in a vast abyss known as the universe not really knowing what to expect *sometimes silence speaks louder than screaming *life is much easier if we find the positives inside of the negatives *you could feel helpless and cry or laugh @ yourself.... I suggest laughing *there is always someone who's got it worse than you do *dont sit and watch... Help *life is intriguing and beautiful *go with your gut *give second chances

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Actively. Whoever came up with couch surfing is my hero. You save money, you bring amazing people into your life, you pick up new skills and traveling ideas from these amazing people, you experience firsthand that most people really are inherently good.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have seen what most tourists don't see. I know the local secrets of more than a few places.

Interests

I enjoy cooking meals for old & new friends, creating new cocktails in good company, building fires, camping as much as possible, planning out future trips, daytripping to nearby cities to explore, artsy craftsy time, being around family units & littles & animals, running, hiking, oogling, crystals & rocks, watching westerns, nurturing plant babies, fishing, occasional loungey lazy days, salamanders, & planning out my future flock of chickens.

• cats
• beauty
• cooking
• wine
• coffee
• running
• walking
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• camping
• surfing
• sailing
• snowboarding
• soccer
• weed

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES: Talladega nights,(Sweet baby jesus!) Deadpool 1 & 2, Venom, anything without paulie shore, wedding crashers, donnie darko, romeo and juliet, grease, dirty dancing, documentaries, django unchained, Tarantino films, Clint Eastwood, snatch, lucky number slevin, amelie, mathilde, enough, shawn of the dead, a hard day's night(beatles movie), anchorman, garden state. MUSIC: A Perfect Circle, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Karen O, Third Eye Blind, The Chemical Brothers, Fiona Apple, Tiger Army, The Unseen, Gnarles Barkley, John Legend, Interpol, The Mars Volta, Gorillaz, Bright Eyes, The Sapps, Lucky Boys Confusion, Ben Harper, The Misfits, Anti-flag, The Casualties, The Growlers, Glass Animals, Tame Impala, Temples, Feist, Hank Williams, Hank III, Beyoncé, Le Tigre, most 80’s musics, The Offspring, The Stones, Led Zepplin, Dire Straits, Heart, Metric, The Arctic Monkeys, ,The Black Keys, Emilie Simon, Aesop Rock, Lil Wayne, Thom Simon, Kanye West, Bloc Party, The Unseen, Doobie Brothers, Alkaline Trio, Frank Sinatra, James Taylor, Simon and Garfunkel, Franz Ferdinand, The Distillers, Beck, Brand New, Amy Winehouse, The Animals, Franz Ferdinand, Kings Of Leon, Justice, Louis Armstrong, Zero 7, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Yves Saint Laurent, Peter Fox, RJD2, Radiohead, Against Me!, Vampire Weekend, mgmt, Lana del ray, Rihanna, tennis, purity ring, Ben folds five, devendra banhart, duke Ellington, coco rosie, fleet foxes, Beirut, Interpol, shiny toy guns, crystal castles. BOOKS: I'm quite partial to 1984.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Seeing the tippy tops of the Alps only 100 feet from where i was standing. Walking through the forest in complete darkness but being fully able to see where my feet were going.

Teach, Learn, Share

I love having great conversations.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Turkey, United States

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