CURRENT MISSION

To explore the world.

ABOUT ME

(Currently in Ashland, OH) BA in English Lit. 130 hour TESOL certificate holder. I taught in South Korea for a year and a half. I work part-time for a consulting firm and am a semi-professional gambler. (Blackjack, horses, craps and various forms of poker.) I am an avid chess player and love to travel.

PHILOSOPHY

To grow and be a lifelong learner. To push the bounds of all experience

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have hosted twice and surfed thrice!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have started meeting friends from this site and have begun wading in the Couchsurfing world.

Interests

Reading, chess, science, travel, poker, philosophy, esoterica, extropianism, futurism, computers. My first love is astronomy.

• horses
• chess
• reading
• traveling
• poker
• astronomy
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
Kill Bill 1 and 2, Star Wars and Star Trek, Braveheart, Pi, indie and foreign films, all kinds of stuff.
Music:Pink Floyd, Ozzie (Sabbath and whatnot) Grateful Dead, the Doors, Metallica, Classic rock, Classical, Romantic and Baroque musics (Vivaldi, Handel, Bach, Schubert, Beethoven, Mozart.., all the greats as well as Maurice Ravel, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein.) I also like pre-Meiji Japanese compositions and Qing dynasty (Chinese) compositions.
Books:
Sci-fi/Fantasy... Clarke, Asimov, Bradbury, Gibson, Benford, various classical and Victorian and Georgian era English works and writers such as Joseph Conrad, Conan Doyle, D.H. Lawrence, Tennyson, Carroll, Thackery, Trollope. G.K. Chesterson. I also like old scholarly writings and encyclopedias. I love books on recondite subjects. I like reading material that is very in depth. I enjoy rooting through old bound versions of the Saturday Review, The Graphic, Popular Science/Mechanics and other bound yearly magazine publications from the past to the present. I am a Urantia Book reader. I basically enjoy reading everything.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Machu Picchu and Moray in Peru. Star Trek the Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton. World Expo '17 Astana.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can help anyone who is interested, learn the sound fundamentals of winning chess and poker.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Ecuador, France, Honduras, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Peru, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Kazakhstan, South Korea, Spain, United States

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