CURRENT MISSION

To see the world. A common mission, I'm sure.

ABOUT ME

I didn't leave the US until I was 27, and now the bug's got me. I like exotic food, ancient history, beer, warm climates, and not a whole lot of anything else. I'm getting pretty good at cooking, I guess, and I like to listen to old time radio shows.

PHILOSOPHY

I keep my philosophy to myself, and think everyone should do the same.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Lend out my couch, I guess? I've just started.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have none!

Interests

Cooking, drinking, ancient history, foreign languages, assembling model airplanes, and hanging around in museums.

• birds
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• modeling
• drinking
• drawing
• world cup
• chemistry
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

I actively dislike music, but if that noise has got to be on, it's blues and big band. When I'm on the treadmill at the gymanisum, I listen to old time radio, like The Shadow, Dragnet, The Saint, and Phillip Marlowe. As for movies, I prefer the independant foreign type stuff, film noir, and comedies with as many fart jokes as possible. For books, it's mostly history, travelogues, and cookbooks. I know, I'm a fascinating person.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

It rained the day I went to the Sahara. I've seen birds flocking around the minarets of the Blue Mosque at night, lit up from underneath. I've seen a Mirhab that would have been in Delhi when Ibn Battuta visited - it's in Toledo. I've drank the world's worst beer in the Cairo airport. I watched the world cup in a Bulgarian backwater that had once been an Empire's capital.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can tell a good story, and you can draw your own conclusions. That's all I can offer, unless you want to know something about cement chemistry and the sustainability of infrastructure systems.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bulgaria, Egypt, Italy, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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