CURRENT MISSION

Go to all the places that I've spent countless hours staring at in my atlas and have a tasty pint after a long day's work.

ABOUT ME

My History:
I'm from Santa Barbara, California. Growing up I played a lot of basketball and frequently made family snowboarding/skiing trips to Mammoth Mountain. I received a Bachelor of Arts in History with a focus in American history and minors in European history after 1500 and Latin American history. But the best education I received was living in San Francisco. Moving to San Francisco was probably the best choice I've ever made for myself. Now I'm living in South Korea and soon departing to travel the globe.

PHILOSOPHY

Treat others as you wish to be treated.

Appreciate what you have now because someday it may be gone.

"When we die search for us not in the ground, but in the hearts of (wo)men."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Friends in NYC, Austin, Seattle, Washington D.C., China, Belgium, Amsterdam

Interests

Music (playing and listening), Maps, Cooking, Drinking Good Beer and Eating Good Food, History, American Football, Fly Fishing, Teaching, Sitting at Cafes or Pubs, Reading, the Middle East, International Relations, People

• arts
• education
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• drinking
• pub crawls
• flying
• politics
• video games
• reading
• traveling
• music
• fishing
• skiing
• snowboarding
• sports
• basketball
• american football
• soccer
• cartography
• teaching
• geography
• geopolitics
• history
• international relations
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: the Beatles, Death Cab, Common, Wilco, Lazertag, Bob Dylan, Modest Mouse, Van Morrison, Motown, Broken Social Scene, Radiohead, Elliot Smith...
Movies: Lost in Translation, Wayne's World, Sin City, Shawshank Redemption, Fast Times at Richmont High, Braveheart, Good Will Hunting, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?
Books: the Hobbit, From Beirut to Jerusalem, Draucula, Mi Moto Fidel, 1984, Into the Wild, A People's History, Catch 22, the Known World, the Unbearable Lightness of Being,
TV: Seinfeld, the Family Guy

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was in the of the Indian Thar Desert about 60km from Pakistan and russled awake in the middle of the night (nature was calling). Opening my eyes I saw the brightest star-filled sky I've ever seen. It was so light that my pupils stung from the quick contraction. I was literally frozen in awe. I probably could have spent the rest of my life trying to count every white dot and would've only got a fraction through. That was the most amazing thing I've ever seen.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm a student of life. I'm constantly filled with questions pertaining to everything from environmental law to Korea's addiction to video games, what I'm trying to say is that pretty much everything sparks an interest. I'm really interested, and thus fairly knowledgable, with Middle East geopolitics and modern histoy, global geography, sports, and American politics and history. I can't name the things that I can share with you. I'm just a curious person that wants to learn and because of that I love having engaging conversations on various topics.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Laos, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Korea, United States