CURRENT MISSION

To pursue reason, adventure, beauty, and good humor. Under stress, the last will suffice.

PHILOSOPHY

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." - William Shedd

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." - William Arthur Ward

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

While I have had over a dozen great experiences sleeping on couches and carpets of "friends I hadn't met yet", they were all organized through the specific event I was attending or through friends-of-friends. I am eager to add some CouchSurfing experiences and see how they compare.

I have hosted a few times (non-CS), but my location's lack of popularity as a travel destination have limited the frequency of those experiences.

Interests

Physically: Lindy/Blues dancing, kayaking, long strategy games, Open Source/Fedora, hiking, motorcycles, snowboarding/skiing, and good books (often speculative fiction).

Metaphysically: Experientially studying the similarities and differences between philosophies/motivations across group boundaries, and that feeling when you start to understand something that used to really confuse you.

• books
• beauty
• dancing
• motorcycles
• traveling
• blues
• hiking
• kayaking
• skiing
• snowboarding

Music, Movies, and Books

Anything that challenges me to think about things in a new way or re-examine myself.

I play piano (various styles) and trombone (mostly jazz).

Favorite authors include Timothy Zahn, Robert Heinlein, John Grisham, Douglas Adams, John C. Wright.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiked to an African village where people had only seen one white person before.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bolivia, Cameroon, Costa Rica, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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