CURRENT MISSION

Have a job, pay the bills, be responsible, AND... enjoy life and the world.

ABOUT ME

I'm an engineer working for a US company in Korea. My family is back in the US. I have a wife, four kids, two dogs, and a small farm at home. I'm here in Korea for two years. My kids are older now, but we hosted au pairs for years from around the world. It was something I really liked. I'm hoping to host interesting people to keep me connected to the world.

PHILOSOPHY

If it's stupid but it works, it's not stupid.
If it sounds smart, but it doesn't work, it's not smart.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Interests

I like to read, cook, watch movies and travel.

• dogs
• culture
• cooking
• politics
• movies
• traveling
• engineering
• history
• au-pair

Music, Movies, and Books

Sci-fi, Fantasy, and sappy romances for both movies and books. I like romance, adventure, and happy endings. I like a bit of everything in music.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A perfect evening with my teen daughter in the Muslim Quarter in Xi'an, China.

The top of Mt St Helens in 1979.

A forest fire.

The fall of the Berlin Wall.

The first Persian Gulf war.

The Pantheon in Rome.

The Aurora Borealis.

My children being born.

The top of the World Trade Center in July, 2001.

A space shuttle launch.

Teach, Learn, Share

I love to hear about places I want to go, and places I will never go. I like to learn about the history and philosophy of politics and culture - how things are and how they got that way.