CURRENT MISSION

FUN is my mission. LOVE is my methodology. CURIOSITY is my fuel.

ABOUT ME

Vegan athlete, globe-trotter, scientist, engineer, and circus performer who wants help make the world an even more amazing place which inspires people to do their part to preserve it. Burningman has illustrated the possibilities of creating a modern utopia populated by creative, intelligent, and forward thinking people who band together toward a noble goal. Here is a small section of the list of things that make me jump out of bed in the morning are: excellent books, yoga, trapeze, stilt-walking, club-juggling, crazy costumes, rubik's cubes, clever riddles, fuzzy kittens, fire-spinning, coral reefs, ping-pong, magic tricks, sweat-lodges, stimulating conversation, delectable raw dessert recipes, and getting lost in new cities.

PHILOSOPHY

Seeking truth with a willingness to let go of prior convictions when proven wrong. Acting lovingly and with compassion. Minimizing ego.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

A newbie learning ... eyes open and curious...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Just starting and jumping in whole-heartedly -- excited to meet some of the most inspired people on the planet!

Interests

Juggling, stilt-walking, aerial dance and trapeze, fire-spinning, underwater photography, SCUBA and cave-diving, welding and sculpture, reading voraciously, inline skating, mountain biking, kayaking,

• horses
• birds
• books
• photography
• acting
• burningman
• festivals
• dancing
• cooking
• recipes
• chocolate
• desserts
• vegan
• yoga
• athlete
• walking
• clubbing
• technology
• reading
• traveling
• juggling
• magic
• cycling
• canoeing
• kayaking
• cave diving
• scuba diving
• skydiving
• rock climbing
• engineering
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Cherished Tomes:
Jitterbug Perfume
The Fountainhead
The Singularity is Near
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Stranger in a Strange Land
Cryptonomicon
Eat Pray Love
Hot, Flat & Crowded
The Diamond Age
Dune
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
The Life of Pi
Ready Player One
The God Delusion
Reamde
Terminal World
Atlas Shrugged
Island
Ender's Game
Catch 22
Euclid's Window
Perdido Street Station
The End of Faith
Perdido Street Station
Anathem
World without End
Super Crunchers
Snowcrash
Diamond Age: A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
1984
Contact
Dharma Bums

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Wrestled a baby moose to get it off the highway, glacier travel in Alaska (watched massive avalanches while climbing Denali), Barracuda Lake in Philippines (best hot spring EVER!), dove down the escalator shaft of the USS Oriskany, rode horses in the surf with my family, went cave diving with my dad (he's 71!), photographed birds in the swamps of Florida, walked around Annapurna, attended the Maha Kumbh Mela festival with 65 million Hindus, slept on a canoe underneath the milkyway, went skydiving with my dad, crawled into a cave with a shark, performed aerial dance at burningman, stiltwalked in a parade of a billion bunnies, drove a forklift on a fuel barge in the bering sea

Teach, Learn, Share

Vegan cooking, raw desserts (favorite is white chocolate mint fudge), juggling, life-coaching, skating, Thai massage, technology, photography, and how to crack a bullwhip (I taught my niece when she was 6! ;-)