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Overview

  • 10 references 6 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning German
  • 36, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Human rights activist
  • Bachelor of Science, Engineering
  • From Brooklyn, New York
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Making friends with people whom I can't imagine life without.

ABOUT ME

I'm really easy-going, really open to just about anything.

I like to read, ride my bike (in the mean streets of NYC), play guitar, search and explore.

I road-tripped with my friend Craig across the USA from New York City to San Francisco, that was one of the best times of my life.

I grew up in Brooklyn and went to college in Manhattan. I studied in Germany for eight months, before dropping out to do some hitchhiking and couchsurfing.

I'm back in New York for now, trying to leave again.

I'm a freegan squatter. I love dumpster-diving for food so I don't have to work! I'm always free! Free to do mutual aid, like hurricane relief work, free stores, and other cool shit.

PHILOSOPHY

Some of the most important things in life are arbitrary.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I sleep on people's couches to further the cause.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I did a bit of surfing when I lived in Germany for the better part of a year.

Interests

People, but more specifically: bikes, books, sketching, writing, talking to strangers.

  • writing
  • books
  • sketching
  • dining
  • guitar
  • cycling
  • kayaking
  • surfing
  • scuba diving
  • mathematics
  • hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Some recent films: Berkeley in the 60s, American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein

Some recent books: Berlin Blues, A People's History of the United States

Music: Bob Dylan (early stuff!), classical guitar music

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The Grand Canyon, kayaking in Lake Meade.

Hitchhiking to Amsterdam to corporealize dropping out of school.

Mayday in Hamburg. (Amazing, but not in a good way.)

Free stores

Freegan dinners

Teach, Learn, Share

bike, guitar, life
how to laugh
how to do math or think critically

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