CURRENT MISSION

See the world and meet its peoples

ABOUT ME

Peace-aholic, war-aphobic, free thinker, laid back and easy to get along with. Organic. I enjoy discussions to expand my sphere of knowledge. I like spending time outside. Most of all I enjoy laughing.

PHILOSOPHY

Trees Eat Sunshine !!!!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am involved. I do stuff.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I was unofficially CS for years in various locals before joining. As I have become more involved, I realize CS's amazing ability to bring people together. Utilizing CSing has been great, I've based some vacations around randomly picking a local and heading towards it, crashing couches along the way.
In short... wonderful.

Interests

Travel, used book shops, Coffee, reading, hiking, anything outdoors, Tea, camping, relaxing, 10:38 Dance Parties, permaculture, geography, history, Organic gardening, cooking, farmers markets, yoga, Quantum Physics, counter-cultural movements, bitter Beer, Burning Man, architecture, art, writing, MidCentry Modern Furnishings, laughing, slow/raw food, mind expanding conversations, Worlds Fairs of bygone eras
All good things in life.

• arts
• writing
• books
• architecture
• coloring
• festivals
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• coffee
• raw food
• yoga
• running
• meditation
• partying
• gardening
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• camping
• buddhist
• geography
• history
• physics

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Indie, old old school Reggae, alternative, classic birth of rock n roll music, electric, indie pop, acid jazz.....
Music in general. Open to anything new and unique.
SUPPORT LOCAL INDIE BANDS !!
Films not movies. Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, 1 Giant Leap, What the Bleep do we know, I heart Huckabees, Pulp Fiction, A Clockwork Orange, The Shinning, The Life Aquatic, Capote, Memento, Touching the Void, DIG!, Abre Los Ojos, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Motorcycle Diaries, Dogtown & Z boys, Oldboy, Marathon, Full Metal Jacket, Life is Beautiful, Amelie, Shawshank Redemption, Fast Food Nation, The Lives of Others, Cosmos series by Carl Sagen, Paris I love you. The Royal Tenembaums, The Big Lewboski, The US vs John Lennon, The Elegant Universe, Slumdog Millionaire, Man On Wire, Moon

I really do not watch TV, so i have some free time to read. Lots of NonFiction. Books I dig: Player Piano, Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, Cats Cradle, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Slaughterhouse 5 by Vonnegut, On the Road, Dharma Bums by JK, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Down and Out in Paris & London, Animal Farm, 1984 by Orwell, A Brave New World, The Doors to Perception by Huxley, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, Glass Bead Game by Hesse, Alice in Wonderland, Me Talk Pretty one day by Sedaris, The Botany of Desire, Confederacy of Dunces .....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The most amazing hikes I've ever been on was the complete Torres Del Paine circuit in the Chilean Patagonia, and the Kepler Trek in Fiordland on the South Island of New Zealand. The autumn color in the High Peaks Region of the Adirondacks are wonderful too. Volcanoes NP on the Big island has some kick ass treks as well. Martian Desert setting only mere miles away from lush tropical rain forest!! Cotopaxi adventure in Ecuador ranks up there as well.

Attended the 2008 Burning Man Festival in Black Rock City, Nevada.

Celebrated New Years Eve with my two best friends for 11 consecutive years in a different location.

Teach, Learn, Share

The secret to a successful planting is the soil preparation and the hole digging. You need to dig the hole 50% wider than the actual root ball, and only as deep as the root ball. In fact you want the trunk flare to be pronounced above the soil level. (1-2.5" higher) With the soil excavated from the hole, amend with peat moss, top soil, or compost, up to 1/3 of mixture used to backfill can be amendments. Apply a layer of mulch 2 " thick. Plants require 1" of water per week during the growing season.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Great conversations. I love cooking !
Got any good ideas, run them by me and we can discuss them.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bahamas, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Korea, Norway, Panama, Poland, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tonga, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ireland, Switzerland, United States

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