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Overview

  • 7 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Spanish
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Poet
  • Arizona St and Univ of Memphis
  • From Citizen of the World
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Working on saving some cash for the ole 'round the worlder...

ABOUT ME

I graduated college with a degree in poetry at the beginning of the biggest recession since the Great Depression (I know, I know, wah wah). Fuck corporate america, Let's see the world!

Currently my girlfriend and I are planning and saving for our next move, which with any luck will take us around the globe.

PHILOSOPHY

I like to draw my personal philosophy from a combination of two things: first, living a life as walt whitman had in mind, a life rich in adventure; second, treating life as existentialists do when they refer to their philosophy as a philosophy of action therefore creating a life full of action and adventure.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Right now we don't have a couch available and our apartment currently is located outside of Baltimore so I don't think any travelers want to come here anyway. I'm definitely up for grabbing a few beers or some coffee with some travelers downtown. I can show you around somewhat but Baltimore is fairly new to me as well. Hopefully soon we will move back to the city, with a couch for surfers. We shall see...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfing has been awesome so far, here in America and abroad, notably Central America. I've met so many cool and like minded people on previous trips. It may be cliche to say, but traveling and couchsurfing has really helped change and reshape my view of humanity. I'm looking forward to giving back to the community by offering my couch, whenever we get one. Ha!

Interests

Traveling, Reading, Movies, thrift stores, live music, local music, beaches, lsd, Partying here and there, basically just trying to enjoy life and write about it right now.

  • arts
  • poetry
  • beer
  • coffee
  • partying
  • thrifting
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • drawing
  • music
  • live music
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Sarah Manguso, Dostoevsky, Hemingway, Henry Miller, Charles Simic, Robert Creeley, Kerouac, Cormac McCarthy, Khalil Gibran, Vonnegut

Big Lebowski, Cheech and Chong movies, Pulp Fiction, Beer Fest, O Brother Where Art Thou

The beatles, hendrix, the dead, richie havens, santana, Neil young, jimmy rogers, nina simone, the motet, pretty lights, rjd2, james brown, talib kweli, erick sermon, and of course The Allman Brothers Band, Some psytrance...shpongle, 1200 mics, knoxbox, beats antique (my new favorite)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The San Blas Islands was the most amazing time throughout my young traveling career. Staying in a hostel that opened out into the main market in Granada, Nicaragua wasn't too bad either.

Teach, Learn, Share

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." Robert Louis Stevenson

"The language of society is conformity; the language of the creative individual is freedom." Henry Miller

"Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art." Oscar Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray

"If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove." Dr. Timothy Leary

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama

Countries I’ve Lived In

Mexico, United States

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