CURRENT MISSION

Live life until it kills me.

ABOUT ME

I'm currently a student at the University of Minnesota studying astrophysics and physics, but am coming back from a year off exploring and trying other things.

Last year I travelled around the US, Canada, and Europe doing velodrome bicycle racing, and at that point was introduced to CS. It was great to get out of the academic grind for awhile, and I was on a role, so I went with it, travelled south to Chile, and spent 3 months training to be a mountaineering guide with the National Outdoor Leadership School.

Now I'm back in the Twin Cities, riding bikes, reading books, and studying. I don't have any trips planned right now, so drop in and let me travel vicariously with you!

PHILOSOPHY

There are two ways to lose your life: All at once, or day by day.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've travelled with homestays often in the past, but just last year did I start formally couch surfing. I've now finally found myself somewhere that I'll be for a while, so I'm opening up my couches to the world.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Last fall and winter I travelled all around Europe racing my bicycle and sleeping on the couches of some really awesome people.

兴趣

Live music, bicycles, hammocks, mountaineering, physics, skiing, wandering, good tea, short stories, and traveling of course!

• books
• reading
• traveling
• music
• live music
• outdoor activities
• mountaineering
• surfing
• skiing
• history
• mathematics
• physics
• tourism

音乐、电影和书籍

Music, where to begin...
MIA, The Fiery Furnaces, Radiohead, Soul Coughing, Deerhoof, Gnarls Barkley, The Hold Steady, The Heartless Bastards, and so on

Movies:
Dirty Pretty Things, Amelie, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Books:
Anything by Henry Miller, Ernest Hemmingway, or JD Salinger
The Virgin Suicides, A Clockwork Orange

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Standing on a cliff at the toe of a glacier in Southern Chile after 2 months in the backcountry, while 17 Andean Condors circled overhead, curious and checking us out.

教，学，和分享

I can teach people how to ski or work on a bicycle pretty well, and have a good knowledge of physics and mathematics.

I would really like to learn more about language and history in the places I visit.

我游览过的国家

Canada, Chile, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

我居住过的国家

United States