CURRENT MISSION

To survive my travels on minimal funds without completely slumming it.

ABOUT ME

Quitting my 9-5 cubicle job, moving out of my apartment, selling all of my crap, doing some breaking and entering (just joking), and fighting tooth and nail to do whatever I can to get to New Zealand on a Working Holiday Visa. I plan to WWOOF, surf, hitch, ride, swim, walk, drive and crawl across NZ for a year.

PHILOSOPHY

The Dude abides.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

What goes around comes around.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Rookie status. I'm new to couchsurfing and plan to do some surfing when I get to New Zealand.

Interests

snowboarding, hiking, surfing, kayaking, flyfishing, soccer, watching movies, going to live music, cooking, just straight chillin

• cooking
• boating
• movies
• traveling
• music
• live music
• hiking
• kayaking
• surfing
• snowboarding
• soccer
• swimming
• wwoof

Music, Movies, and Books

Phish, Disco Biscuits, STS9, The New Deal, EOTO, Toubab Krewe, Yonder Mountain, Bonobo, Fourtet, Amon Tobin, DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, J Dilla, MF Doom, Mos Def & Talib Kweli, Madlib, Dr. Dre & Snoop, Kid Cudi, The Pharcyde, The Roots, Gangstarr, Wu Tang, Lee Scratch Perry, Eek A Mouse, Easy Star Allstars, Fat Freddys Drop, Katchafire, Bob Marley, Steel Pulse, Burning Spear, Toots & Maytals, Salmonella Dub, Max Romeo, Barrington Levy, Radiohead, My Morning Jacket, The Black Keys, Gorillaz, Animal Collective, Yeahsayer, LCD Soundsystem, Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Traffic, James Brown, Parliament Funkadelic, Allman Brothers, The Who, Pink Floyd, Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Herbie Hancock, Al Green, Frank Zappa …and many others

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

While traveling in Ireland with friends, we rented a houseboat for a week to travel down a river out in the countryside. Somehow (and I still don't know how) we managed to go down the wrong branch of the river and get our houseboat stuck on a rock, miles from the nearest town. One of my friends swam and then hiked several miles into town for help. Before we knew it, half of this little town had come to see the stupid Americans who got their boat stuck. After a full day stuck on the river some farmers eventually came with their tractors and pulled us free in the middle of the night. It was exciting, funny and painfully embarrassing at the same time.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Ireland, Netherlands

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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