CURRENT MISSION

To test every pair of socks in the world.

ABOUT ME

I'm 29 now. After drifting for 3 years across Asia, Africa and Europe I'm thinking its time to settle down. Maybe. I don't know. Ask me tomorrow.I will be moving to Santiago, Chile on July 3rd! My partner and I were accepted to the StartUp Chile program and will moving our business to Chile for at least 6 months.

PHILOSOPHY

Friends are where its at. See above.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

One day, when my living situation permits, I look forward to hosting scores of visitors from across the globe. But for now I must content myself with visiting scores of people across the globe instead.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My best travel experiences have all stemmed from making new friends along the way. In fact, I'd even say that next to your family, friends are the most important thing in this world.

Interests

Visual Art: Stencils, Wheat-Pasting, Public / Urban Renegade Art.

Music: Drums, Guitar, Keys, Ukelele, Trumpet (just started). I am also a proud member of the Oakland Soft Rock Choir.

Large bodies of water. Jellyfish and Squid. Turtles. Camels. Donkeys. Ants. Mantids. Linguistics, applied and theoretical. Little Kids. Water Buffalo. Kittens. Gibbons. Snowboarding! Wakeboarding! Unusual hairstyles. Spoken Accents of the World. People with toes shaped like little beans.

Owls.

Code: Ruby, Javascript.

Travel on motorcycle / motorbike / horseback / bicycle is my favorite!

• arts
• festivals
• cooking
• vegetarian
• traveling
• coding
• music
• guitar
• trumpet
• drums
• equestrian
• bungee jumping
• snowboarding
• wakeboarding
• wrestling
• soccer
• business
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Murakami. Vonnegut. Dostoyevski. Kafka. Carver.

Jodorovsky.

Gogol Bordello. Taraf de Haidouks. Soft Rock! Al Green. Animal Collective. Antibalas. Fela Kuit! Balkan Beat Box! Beach Boys. Beirut. Beck. Beshodrom. Black Sabbath. The Black Keys. Bo Diddley. Caetano Veloso. Captain Beefheart! The Clash! The Coral. Dan Deacon. David Byrne. David Bowie. The Talking Heads. Deerhoof! Department of Eagles. Grizzly Bear. LCD Soundsystem. Dungen. Elvis Costello. Fever Ray. Fleet Foxes. Gang of Four. Hanne Hukkelberg. Hot Chip. Jamie Lidell. Lee Perry. Luiz Bonfa. Man Man. Marvin Gaye. Tati Quebra Barraco. Nick Drake. Nina Simone! Queens of the Stone Age. Radiohead. Spoon. Stereo Total. Yo La Tengo.

Booming raucous Balkan brass-band gypsy wedding music plays in my head all day. When I think im alone I sing out loud often. I am a karaoke fiend.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Rode a horse for 9 days across the north of Mongolia without speaking a single word to another person. Found myself in the middle of a military coup in Bangkok. Ran naked through the snow in Japan. Jumped out of a plane over New Zealand. Kissed the bottom of the Red Sea. Floated like a cork in the Dead Sea. Lost nearly everything I owned on the streets of Sofia, Bulgaria. Camped alongside Beduins in Sinai, Egypt. Got lost and then found at Burning Man. Traveled overland all the way from Cape Town to Berlin. Walked pilgrimage routes with Ethiopian priests. Witnessed extreme masochism at the vegetarian festival in Phuket, Thailand. Rode camels. Swam with dolphins. Hitchhiked across Sudan. Bungee jumped. Slept in a Tokyo capsule hotel. Witnessed a daily Cao Dai worship. Peered into the crater of an active volcano. Camped in the crater of an inactive volcano. Stood before the great pyramids of Giza. Joined the fray at a Vasco vs Flamengo championship football match at Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro. Got stuck in the mountains of Georgia when Russia invaded. Ate a lot of strange things! Celebrated Christmas in Japan and Hannukah in Zambia. Slept under the stars in the middle of the Israeli desert. Climbed the minarets of mosques in Cairo. Attended a Sumo wrestling match in Tokyo. Sold art on the streets of Budapest. Drove a tiny motorbike 2000km across the north of Laos. Drove a tiny motorbike 2000km across the north of Vietnam. Hunted / was hunted by assassins on the streets of San Francisco. Got mugged in London. Visited the birthplace and site of Jesus Christ's death. Got stranded in the middle of the Nyika Plateau, Malawi. Collected shells from the Great Sand Sea, western Egypt.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'll teach you how to walk on your hands, and if I really like you, some mad wicked wild heavy dancefloor shit, too.

And I can give guitar / ukulele lessons! And i can cook!

I also make websites.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Cook Islands, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Georgia, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Laos, Lebanon, Malawi, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Mozambique, Myanmar, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Palestine, Portugal, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Swaziland, Syrian Arab Republic, Taiwan, Tanzania, Turkey, United Kingdom, Viet Nam, Zambia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Chile, Germany, Thailand, United States

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