CURRENT MISSION

Enjoying life, love, and people!

ABOUT

I grew up in Texas and have lived in California, Germany, and (most recently) China.
I love surprises and find that the very best things in life always come unexpectedly.

Gay 🌈

PHILOSOPHY

€œI want to live deliberately, to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to put to rout all that was not life and not, when I come to die, discover that I had not lived.
- Henry David Thoreau

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet new people around the world and share experiences,

Interests

Music (and especially live music), being out in nature, traveling, reading classics, meeting new people, trying my hand at playing the stock market, playing guitar.

• humanities
• performing arts
• reading
• traveling
• investing
• music
• live music
• guitar
• rock climbing
• biology

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, The Mars Volta, P-Funk, Lee Perry, Midnite, Santana, and more reggae, blues, and rock.

Movies: Blazing Saddles. Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Death at a Funeral,

Authors: Jules Verne, Liu Cixin, Alexander Dumas, Yevgeny Zamyatin, JK Rowling, JRR Tolkien, Ayn Rand, Mary Shelley, I love reading!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Snorkeling with a singing humpback whale in Tahiti.... magical!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach a few languages, including English, Spanish, and Chinese.

I love to learn languages, too! Recently I've been wanting to study computer programming.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, France, French Polynesia, Georgia, Germany, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kosovo, Latvia, Macao, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Palau, Palestine, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Germany, Russian Federation, United States