I just moved back from Santiago, Chile and in Louisville for the most part. Don't hesitate to send a request. I'm working on music and writing poetry these days. I love to cook, running, swimming, taking dogs for walks and so on.

New project is a 1990 Jeep Wrangler.

Moving out to Colorado soon, so will host if I'm able. Won't be around in Louisville for the festivals this year.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I try to be as useful as I can be, I like helping people out and showing people around.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted, traveled, and surfed with some great people.

I am on couchsurfing because I dig the community and its philosophy. I have found that most people in this community value people more than things and have an open mind to what the world has to offer. I like to be hospitable, I believe in reciprocation and I think the way one treats strangers is one of the most important things.

Interests

I am really into music. I play guitar mostly but can hang on most instruments. Really into sharing musical interests. There is so much out there, music is truth.

I love swimming and canoeing.

I like to ferment things, beer, wine, kombucha, vinegar, kraut and pickles, hot sauce.. Fermentation is endlessly fascinating to me.

I love hot peppers, pepper plants, and hot sauce and also love growing and eating tomatoes.

I really like to read, am heavy into ideas and theoretical thinking and discussion, but I am also into shutting up and listening, it is easy for me to get heavily invested in a way of thinking or school of thought which is a habit i am breaking now that I am out of formalized education

I like to make things, and down for large collaborative efforts. I take a lot of pictures.

Ive been a runner for most of my life, trying to push myself into new things physically, cycling and climbing as well. I want to become a better climber this year.

Really I dig just about everything.

Music, Movies, and Books

I am really into theory, writers like Michel Foucalt, Vilem Flusser, Roland Barthes, Michel Serres, bell hooks.

I love poetry, I always find myself coming back to Gary Snyder, David Berman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Milton Acorn, and Frank Stanford.

Getting back into fiction. I wrote my senior thesis on Don Delillo's "White Noise" and "Underground," so I have a lot to say about those texts. I am really fascinated by David Foster Wallace and plan on working through a few of his books this summer, always having friends suggest books to me and vice versa. I am working on a book of poems and seek inspiration in writers/poets like David Berman and Charles Bukowski. Also Vonnegut, Cavino, Hesse, Melville, Hemingway, Steinbeck, all those old dudes.

Also really into non-fiction, a kentucky author i have been into lately is Harlan Hubbard.
Really into a lot of movies, "Upstream Color" being one that I've been thinking about for a while now. Fairly out the loop with television.

As far as music goes I am into anything that is moving, if you feel it its good.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I'd say climbing Mt. Rainier when I was 19 was one of the wildest things I have experienced, especially in its context. I had been thinking about Rainier since I was 14, the idea of climbing it was an obsession. Things worked out well and one of my good friends happens to live in Seattle. His brother, my friend and myself went up the summer of 2012. I was sort of blacking out as we approached the summit, everything looked like an old black and white film. I remember having all sorts of wild thoughts and hallucinations. It was amazing to get to the top to see the sun coming up and the expanse of the Tatoosh range down below, to get down and to still be alive and thirsty as I have ever been.

Teach, Learn, Share

I play the guitar and like teaching that. I also cook a lot , I can teach and share that or help and learn from you. I'm pretty good at fixing bikes. I have worked remodeling homes and doing concrete work and carpentry.

I know there is an infinite amount to learn from others and I'm always very receptive.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can cook, there's probably some things I can't think of right now that will just come up. I'm pretty good at finding/foraging food. I know how to garden and how to be diplomatic. I can settle disputes with neighbors. I can help reduce street noise in any room through the use of fabrics. Most of all though, hopefully to share a great time. I feel like most of my hosting experiences have left me seeing my town and myself in a new way, what was shared could have never of been predicted.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Canada, Chile, England, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Peru, Switzerland, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Chile, United States