CURRENT MISSION

Live, Laugh, Love

ABOUT ME

Old soul/young heart, West Virginia born/Baltimore bred social media enthusiast on quest to reconcile world disorder and personal conviction contradiction. I enjoy learning, archiving, dive bars, soft tacos, passing the hat for musicians, living like a local, vintage shopping, galleries, art museums, statues, taking photos, rivers, bridges, tunnels, trains, coffee, fauna, wildlife, urban settings, dancing, fountains, lakes, fires, kayaking, beer, community art museums, pop-ups, light shows, science, theater, burritos, hummus, historic sites, salsa, stop signs, hot sauce, volleyball, Americana, stories, baby ducks, sun, paddleboarding, and understanding.

PHILOSOPHY

“I do not try to dance better than anyone else.
I only try to dance better than myself.” --Baryshnikov

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

A tourist at home and a local everywhere I travel.

Interests

Wikipedia, Inflamation, Candid Photos, National Road, Blueridge Mountains, Appalachian Mountains, Appalachia, Strongbow, Raspberries, Taxation, Sukoku, Buddhism, Vegetarianism, Peace, Sweet tea, Catholicism, Absurdity, Clean water, Graffiti, Editing, Europe, The Southeastern United States, Botany, Rainy Summer Nights, Wildlife Biology, Green tea, Dialects, Love, The Wilderness

• wildlife
• arts
• theater
• dancing
• beer
• coffee
• shopping
• traveling
• kayaking
• catholic
• buddhist
• volleyball
• biology
• communications
• dialects
• science
• historic sites
• lakes
• rivers
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

That Was Then... This Is Now, Forrest Gump, Love Story, Shag, A Beautiful Mind, The Godfather, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Finding Neverland, The Wizard of Oz, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Top Gun, The Way We Were, Legends of the Fall, Ever After, Mr. Holland's Opus, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in The Hood, The Graduate, The Sound Of Music, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Phantom of the Opera, Napoleon Dynamite, Chicago, Walk the Line, Happiness Is, Smalltimore, the movie

e-dubble, Donegal X-Press, Catastrophe, Irishtoothache, Midnight Spin, Bob Sima, The Beatles, Ben Harper, Johnny Cash, Sleigh Bells, Regina Spektor, Bob Dylan, Smooth Kentucky, All Good Music Festival, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Samantha Farrell, Evan Bliss & The Welchers, The Folk & Blues Project, Mr. Greengenes, Caleb Stine, Scott Simons, Danni Rosner, Tom Waits, The Gold-Bug, The Amish Outlaws, The Avett Brothers, Jim Savarino, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Hanson

The Buddha of Suburbia, 'Tis, Shiloh, Around the World in Eighty Days, Through the Looking-Glass, Native Son, The Twits, Cat's Eye, The Giver, Pride and Prejudice, Light in August, Beloved, Where the Red Fern Grows, Small Pig, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, The Weight of Water, God of small things, The Undomestic Goddess, A Handmaid's Tale, Snow Falling on Cedars, Matilda, Surfacing, Sula

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Italy, Puerto Rico, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States