CURRENT MISSION

My wife and I are about to retire, and want to know people everywhere, not only here at home.

ABOUT ME

My wife, Rebecca and I have been married now 39 years. We met at Antioch College in Ohio. I've been an eager learner of languages, and can manage various levels of French, Spanish, Italian, German, Hebrew, Russian in addition to my native English. I'm determined to improve all of these and eventually to add Arabic and Latin.

Rebecca (my wife) and I are veteran travelers and love to get away. We also love to host "foreigners" in our country. So far at least, we have a very nice home with plenty of room for guests. We carry on interesting conversations about any number of varied topics. Boring, we're not.

I'm especially good at striking up conversations with strangers and finding out all about them. Rebecca is fabulous at researching places we're visiting and discovering what is interesting about them.

PHILOSOPHY

Be nice, be careful.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

All I have done so far is sign up. From here, the sky's the limit.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Lots, all without the benefit of this very interesting website.

Interests

Travel, bicycling, ceramics, Judaism, multi-culturalism, languages, books and magazines, film, and I can't think of all the rest right now

• books
• traveling
• pottery
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Try me. There's an awful lot I'm interested in.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

There are just too many to name but one, but the Months of April and May in most places probably qualifies.

Teach, Learn, Share

Wow! I know a lot of stuff, but it's hard for me to presume to know something well enough to teach someone else.