CURRENT MISSION

to visit every continent

ABOUT ME

I'm really passionate about silly things, like maps and raspberries. I have found that cream cheese makes almost everything better. I used to spend weekends doing crosswords at coffee shops and weeknights watching cartoons over a few pints at my local, but now I live in the country and just come home and watch nature documentaries from the library. It doesn't take much to get a laugh out of me, and you have to pile on a lot to shock me. In my mind, the world is easy and amazing.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Cultural ambassador!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

One summer in Budapest, on my second day in the city, I took the last bus home in the wrong direction. At a gas station some thirty miles from my destination, past midnight, I found someone who at first thought he was there just to get gas, but turns out he was also there to give me a ride home. I have been forever grateful at this first simple act of kindness from a stranger. It didn't have anything to do with CouchSurfing, and I was a few years away from even hearing about the concept, but I feel as though I am still trying to repay that man for his kindness through any bit of hospitality I can give others.

Interests

Mountains, rivers, woods, longrange vistas. Micromicro brews, wild food foraging, hyperlocal movement. Fading paint in alleys, the sides of buildings you weren't meant to see. A well-designed object.

• documentaries
• dining
• cheese
• coffee
• running
• cartoons
• painting
• cartography
• rivers
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

McSweeney's. Radiolab. John Hughes.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have played with lions and tigers in Argentina. I was shown inside two family mausoleums in a historic cemetery in Buenos Aires. I jumped out of an airplane once and intend to do so again. I have seen the sky so full of stars it had run out of black.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Canada, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Mexico, United Kingdom, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom, United States

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