If urban BIKING is a big part of your lifestyle, keep reading my profile here. But BEFORE you ask me to host you, please read ALL of the ABOUT me and about MY HOME. Note that most dates in my schedule are usually blocked, because I don't have a fixed schedule at last edit. Email me here (including instructions below) if your dates are not open to see if they might be. And for good hosting matches, I can often change my own travel plans.

I'm a single gay guy living in the Castro District since 1996 in an old house under constant renovation that would have already been demolished in most US Cities. My offices are in the home, I personally run the front-end development of over 115 websites, providing customer service to the administrative users, so I am often busy in front of a screen, which may look like I am just goofing off or wasting time, when in fact, I am concentrating on some technical issue. I also maintain this 138 year old building, my workshop is here in my building. With everything, I am typically busy from the hour I wake up until I crash. I do, however, take exercise breaks about every other day, usually a bike ride, and I'm more than eager to take a visitor along on my urban rides.

A break from my work to share my city on bike through the urban open space and pizza are significant parts of my positive CS hosting experiences, so I seek to host visitors who would most likely enjoy urban biking and who can pedal up a typical hill in San Francisco, like 100m over 1km.

Our home is a fragrance-free-zone - i.e. please leave your perfume, fragrance, eau de toilette and aftershave in their bottles and take a shower, located in my bathroom and stocked with plenty of Costco shampoo and soap, and dry off with the freshly laundered towel and washcloth that I'll provide for every visiting couchsurfer. Just because no one else has ever complained about your aromas does not mean the non-fragrance rule does not apply to you. My time is already over-obligated, I cannot afford to take time off to visit the hospital emergency room due to an alergic reaction.

Opportunities to couchsurf at my home are limited. I travel a lot, and when I am in San Francisco, I host a lot of alumni and students from my college (the US Naval Academy in Annapolis). I currently have a long term roommate. If I'll be home from traveling, have no visiting friends nor family, nor a major construction project, then I can take in a couchsurfer. Between 1 November to 1 June, I travel extensively. I sometimes have a little wiggle room on my travel schedule, then I can shift my travel dates when a traveler seems to be a very good fit for being a guest.

I have had to turn down over 97% of the requests to stay with me. Then, a few of the couchsurfers who have confirmed to stay with me have been no-shows, which really screws over some of the other 97% that I had to turn away. I’m OK with being your “Back Up” plan, but please let me know if I am the back up so I can give someone else a “Maybe” rather than a hard “No.”

At popular times of the year (like all of July, August and September) I get a lot of requests from desperate couch surfers in a fun city tough for finding hosts. If you really get into urban biking and think you'll be a good fit for my Castro home, shoot me an email with your dates, and we'll check to see if one of my guests has had a change of plans.

If your profile makes no mention of biking nor includes any photos of any outdoor physical activity, or if you smoke tobacco or if your "religion" or "faith" dictates that you cannot take a shower with soap, or if you need to consume large quantities of meaty flesh cut from bovine or suidae carcasses, or if you don't understand this paragraph, I am probably not a good CS hosting match for you.

I've previously lived or have had family along most of the West Coast, from Port Angeles to San Diego. I know the quickest routes, and some of the more interesting ones that many visitors never get to experience.

Now having read the above, and you feel you are up to it, please INCLUDE IN YOUR REQUEST how much you enjoy urban biking (it helps if you at least mention biking in your profile and bonus for having photos of you on your bike), that you understand the no-cologne zone needs of our home, and why you would be a great couchsurfing guest. If there is no mention, I can only assume you are among the 95%+ couch surfers who shotgun out requests or have too little in common to be a good fit to be sharing my office futon!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I like to meet people from far away places who can teach me something about where they live and tell me what they REALLY think of US Americans.

Perhaps the people I meet here can share their hometown with me sometime, too.

The best way to share my city with visitors is by urban biking... if you want to be hosted, you should be eager to explore the parks and beaches on bike on the way to good (and cheap) chinese food in the Richmond district.

And because people on Couchsurfing like to travel, I'm also looking for other gay travel buddies who have my same passion for getting about and experiencing a lot of the world, but then, not necessarily by Couchsurfing. I don't find travel alone nearly as rewarding as traveling with other people who share the same curiosities and energy. High on my list: Patagonia, New Zealand, Ha Noi, Peru, Mendoza, southern Portugal! Off my list for potential travel is any country where all people are not legally equal, thank you India and Australia for changing your laws!

Interests

Biking as a means of getting about, Architecture, Pizza, Construction, Hiking, Exploring, Queer Genre Cinema

• architecture
• cycling
• hiking
• budget travel
• urban exploration
• filmmaking
• biking
• bike riding
• pizza
• france
• bicycling
• bicycle
• bicycles
• bicicleta
• urban farming
• cycling,
• urban cycling
• bicycle riding
• historic preservation

Music, Movies, and Books

FIP and KCRW Music fan, Frameline Film Fanatic, too dyslectic to read anything other than technical manuals.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I drove nuclear submarines around the oceans, I was the Captain of two of them.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Reciprocal Fun in Fog City. especially if you can ride a bike in an urban setting.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territory, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Ecuador, England, France, Germany, Guam, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Uruguay, Vatican City State, Viet Nam, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States