CURRENT MISSION

Search for diverse experiences, meet new people, share passions, and build community

ABOUT ME

I'm from New England and currently study wildlife biology at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst Ma. I love to work with my hands -- anything mechanical -- mopeds, motorcycles, cars, bikes. I enjoy traveling, backpacking, rock climbing, road tripping, urban exploration, reading, and good conversation. What drives me is the ability to live my life dynamically. I find passions and pursue them which often leads me to new endeavors. I am currently taken by the writings on the adventures of Jacque Costeau, motorcycles, and alpinism.

PHILOSOPHY

I work to live a life that starts when I step outside of my comfort zone, I work to be honest, frank, and straightforward with people close to me.I am always trying to continue to make sure I am doing what I love, or working to acheive that passion. I work hard not to let oppourtunities fall by the wayside, no matter how absurd they may seem, or how nervous I am. I shoot to be humble, kind, driven, passionate, honest and committed to doing my best to enjoy and love whatever it is I am doing.From diverse experience comes perspective , and life is simple existence without perspective.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I hope to use CS as a tool to step out, to break out, to meet new people, to share experience, gain new experiences, and to develop a broader perspective.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Up to this point, I have had little official couchsurfing experience, but I have spent a lot of time traveling around the US, road tripping, dirtbagging, and climbing. Through this I have made some amazing connections and informally stayed with aquantiances, and have made great new friends.

Interests

I love to work on bikes, mopeds, motorcycles, welding, anything that gets me thinking, and my hands working.I have rebuilt, restored, and modified several antique cars, motorcycles, and mopeds.I have been rock and ice climbing for several years and it has taken my all over the United States, Yosemite, CA, Nevada, Arizona, Alaska, Wyoming, Kentucky.I really enjoy anything that gets me meeting new people, seeing new places, and forces me to step outside of my comfort zone.

• wildlife
• motorcycles
• reading
• traveling
• cars
• alpinism
• backpacking
• rock climbing
• biology
• tourism
• mountains
• urban exploration

Music, Movies, and Books

Music -- I enjoy folk, jazz, rock, indie -- Andrew Bird, Sufjan Stevens, Blitzen Trapper, Miles Davis, RJD2, Iron & Wine, Bon Iver, Ratatat, Black Keys, Edward Sharp & The Magnetic Zeros, George Winston, Yonder Mountain String Band.Favorite movies -- Forest Gump, Collapse, 180 South, The Graduate, Eastern Rises, Second Hand Lions, Collapse, Ocean's 11.Some great books that I have read include, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, A Voyage for Madmen, Planetwalker, Mole People, Clive Cussler, James Patterson.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One of the coolest things I have ever done was traveling up to Alaska for summer to work as a mountain guide in a small southeastern Alaskan town. While I was there, I caught giant King Salmon with my bare hands, got into some pretty scary situations in the big mountains, gotten a little too close to some big grizzlies, and spent a lot of time on some giant glaciers.