CURRENT MISSION

Reinvent myself

ABOUT ME

Well, my name is Alex. I'm pretty into this whole traveling thing and I'm about to hit the road vagabond style. One thing I have learned thus far in life is that lists are great. Therefore I will proceed in list form:

Likes
-The Outdoors
-Disc Golf
-Dogs
-Fennecs Foxes
-Milwaukee
-Travelling
-Coconuts
-Alternative energy
-Density
-Good beats
-Good beets
-Sausage
-Germans
-Chia Pets

Dislikes:
-Tomatoes
-Bigots
-Country Twang
-Men in really tight jeans
-Loud noises
-Poison Ivey
-Rush Limbaugh
-Bombs
-Artificial Cheese
-Smog
-Hamsters
-Under cooked potatoes
-Landslides
-Pokemon

PHILOSOPHY

Possessions are worthless, let your life be defined by your experiences.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I camped in a school yard
I slept on the beach in the Netherlands
I rode in a side car through a field
I participated in a schlemerparty
I stayed in the Rhone Valley
I squated in a train station
I drank in the English Garden
I watched people surf the Isar

Interests

Disc Golfing, Rafting, Hiking, Urban Development, Sustainable Development, Environment, Independent Films, The New Pornographers (A band not a porno). North Carolina, Constructing Things, I built a luge once out of wood and some roller blade wheels (Most dangerous thing I have ever done).

• pets
• dogs
• environment
• cheese
• gardening
• movies
• traveling
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• golf
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Non-Fiction: The Missing Class, Flight of the Creative Class, Freakenomics, Soul of a Chef, Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, The Book Thief, Ham on Rye.
Music: LUPE FIASCO, Beirut, Spoon, The Kooks, Old Crow Medicine Show, Bob Dylan.
Movies: City of God, Memphis Belle, Pans Labyrinth, Funny People, Primer, Moon

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

There have been to many to recall, and the best are still to come.

Teach, Learn, Share

Train stations aren't that bad to sleep in, especially in Ventimiglia Italy!

The Swiss LOVE cheese, especially hot, melty delicious cheese. I think that the Cheese state of Wisconsin and Switzerland should partner up to become the cheese presidents of the universe

Countries I’ve Visited

China, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, Taiwan, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Taiwan, United States

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