I really do love this community and what it stands for. It is filled with open people and the only currency exchanged is kindness and friendship.

The true couchsurfing spirit is courageous. It is a willingness to be vulnerable by letting others into your life. All couchsurfers should understand that this website is about connection.

ABOUT ME

Insatiably curious. Vivacious and fervent. A passionate and philosophical guy with golden retriever energy.

Core values: (In order) for now....
1. Authenticity
2. Compassion
3. Mindfulness
4. Vulnerability
5. Joy
6. Growth
7. Simplicity

MY PHILOSOPHY:

I consciously make myself and others feel alive through realization and self-awareness. We are all searching for experiences that make us feel alive.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I am on this site to find the strangers who will become lifelong friends. I want more than just a trivial experience of life and all of its wonderful flavors.

Interests

My favorite pastime is meaningful conversation, and you won't escape a stay with me without having one. hahaha

Happiest when doing these things:
in Nature, acroyoga, fitness, swing dancing, reading, camping and of coarse good conversation.

• poetry
• photography
• swing dancing
• fitness
• meditation
• gardening
• hiking
• camping
• philosophy
• volunteering
• art
• nature
• sustainability
• dance
• conversation
• love
• authenticity
• happiness
• sustainable living
• simplicity
• honesty
• cooking and baking
• connecting with people
• fitness training

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies- Cloud Atlas, Meet Joe Black, Good Will Hunting, Interstellar, Legends of the Fall, Midnight in Paris, Dead Poets Society....others I can't thing of.

Anime- Stenins;Gate, Tokyo Ghoul, Psycho Pass, Deathnote, Durarara, Ergo proxy, Sumarai champloo, Sword art online, Monster, Kino's journey, Mushi-shi

Authors- Emerson, Thoreau, Kierkegaard, Hegel, Nietzsche, Steve Pinker, Dan Dennett, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Tony Robbins, Tim Ferriss, Ben Lerner

Poets- Muir, Whitman, Wordsworth, Yeats, Rilke, John Burroughs, William Carlos Williams

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

¤ Back in May, 1994, I held the world record for a few moments for being the youngest person in the world.

¤ Lead a CS event on a trek from Jiankou to Mutianyu (unrenevated part of The Great Wall with no physical directions to get there except some random, small, quite rural fishing village to start from)

¤ Organized CouchCrash Upstate NY in 2019

¤ Organized an Event which held over 100 people called "The World's Largest Eye Contact Experiment" in Seoul on Sept. 23rd, 2017 along with 400 other cities that same day.

¤ Bungee Jumping at Nami island in South Korea.

¤ Got lost in Kaeng Krachan west Thailand Jungle

¤Got stuck on Aogoshima island and then craned onto a boat in a cargo crate with 25 Japanese people.

* 85 mile bike ride in 9 hours.

Teach, Learn, Share

Philosophy, Psychology, Swing and Latin Dance, Acroyoga, Physical Fitness training and nutrition.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Friendship, memories, a cooked meal, Good conversation.What is more important?

Countries I’ve Visited

Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Greece, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, South Korea, Turkey, United States