Greetings! My name is Stephen Carlsten. I'm a mid-twenties dude with multiple interests and passions. I am an engaging person and love great conversations, like the ones you have at 3 am sipping whiskey and contemplating the oddities of the universe. I fix cars, enjoy bars, love looking up at the stars, think about life on Mars...and so on!

As a guest, I'm happy to help with chores or tasks or whathaveyou.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Couchsurfing presents an amazing opportunity to not only go somewhere, but meet someone who knows what's where in that somewhere and thereby foster a more rounded understanding of that place and its people and history, etc. I like cooking for people and doing dishes and helping with chores or yardwork or throwing mad bashes, and when we have no home, participating in CS gives us the opportunity to do so!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've been involved with CS since 2009. For the last two years I've been hosting with my sister in Saint Augustine. We've met hundreds of awesome people from all over the world. (See her profile here https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/jacquicorkfloats)

Interests

The woods, music, painting(s) or art in general, playing music, interesting and consciousness-expanding discussions, sunsets and rises, madness, dumpstering, tools and fixing and making things, communication, climbing, biking, reading, writing, cooking, skulls, weaponry, mountains, streams,

YOU!

• dogs
• arts
• writing
• festivals
• cooking
• beer
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• music
• cycling
• rock climbing
• history
• physics
• mountains
• hats
• mechanics
• auto
• gin and tonic
• automotive
• arguing

Music, Movies, and Books

Grateful Dead, Modest Mouse, Fleet Foxes, Iron & Wine, The American Analog Set, Mimicking Birds, Neko Case, Dr Dog,

Lord of the Rings, The Dharma Bums, For Whom the Bell Tolls

Many many many films...lately Interstellar & The Revenant

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

when the Dead slipped into Shakedown Street at the Rothbury Music and Arts Festival

When I rode my bicycle 90 miles for a booty call through rain and night and hills.

When Bobby Bouchee showed up at half-time and the Mud Dogs won the Bourbon Bowl!!!!

Teach, Learn, Share

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars"

Kerouac

What I Can Share with Hosts

Mechanical Knowledge

Building Maintenance Knowledge

How to make a damn good G&T

Interesting Conversations!