CURRENT MISSION

Travel the world.

ABOUT ME

I teach and I write.

PHILOSOPHY

"I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas." ~Herman Melville

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I love it.

Interests

• walking
• traveling
• sailing

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Royal Tenenbaums, American Beauty, Grizzly Man, Roxanne, Help!, Rivers and Tides, Black Robe, Sophie's Choice, Garden State, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The Sting, Ed Wood, Eagle vs Shark, Raising Arizona, Paper Moon, Robocop, Black Swan, The Pledge, Before Sunrise, Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Pledge, Terminator II, A Fish Called Wanda, Insomnia, Eyes Wide Shut, The Weather Man, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Boyhood, Nightcrawler

BOOKS: In His Own Write, The Shipping News, The Beatles Anthology, Chronicles: Volume One, Robinson Crusoe, The Great Gatsby, Cannery Row, Totilla Flat, East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, On the Road, The Dharma Bums, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Lolita, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Death in Venice, Tobacco Road, To Build a Fire, The Little Prince, Dove, Slaughterhouse-Five, 1984, A Moveable Feast, The Sun Also Rises, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, Love in the Time of Cholera, Life of Pi, Heavier than Heaven, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Me Talk Pretty One Day, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Naked, Dave Barry is not Taking this Sitting Down, Bright Lights, Big City, Walden, Autobiography of a Yogi, How to Beat up Anybody, Norwegian Wood, The Power of Now, Glamorama

MUSIC: Electronica

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Walking around Istanbul in a state of awe.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, New Zealand, United States

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