doing things outdoors! walking barefoot on soft dirt! making people smile! the smell of old books! good coffee, good wine or beer, fresh vegetables, warmly lit rooms and long afternoons spent drinking tea. I can be pensive or crazy or introspective or talkative, depending on my mood. I love nature and mountain sports, but all of this adventuring is making me appreciate comforts.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

this shit's like the shiny golden beacon of the traveling ideal -- easy, automatic community, true connections, good people!

It's worth noting that I've been on CS for a while and have some ideals built up around it.
I have some pretty righteous ideas about social justice and human equality and so if you are, for some reason, on couchsurfing and do not share those ideas, be gone!

I am never going to give you money. If we connect, I might draw you a picture or write you a poem to thank you.

Please don't write me if you are racist or misogynist or etc.

Interests

I appreciate all things WILD, adventurous, meditative, thought-provoking, whimsical, spontaneous, artistic, and holistic. I'm quite pleased by fundamental questions, thinking about cultural progression, and generally being open to new methods of understanding.
Soft spots for mountains, good tea, bicycles, bodies of water, and well-read books, and wild edible plants.

• books
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• coffee
• vegetarian
• walking
• drinking
• flying
• traveling
• drawing
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• mountaineering
• skiing
• sports
• rock climbing
• mountains
• climbing

Music, Movies, and Books

much love for Albert Camus, David Foster Wallace, Michel Foucault, Milan Kundera, Fyordor Dostoevsky, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Arthur Rimbaud, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jonathan Safran Foer, JD Salinger, Aldous Huxley, JK Rowling, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herman Hesse, Jacques Derrida, Paolo Cohelo, Leo Tolstoy, and Richard Brautigan.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I rode my bike by myself in winter 3600km from France to Albania and BACK!

-cliff dove 18 meters into an underground lake
-bikepacked through one of the last primary jungles in Madagascar
-solo-summited the highest African peak south of Kilimanjaro during a snowstorm
-converted a van into a tiny house and lived in it during the most historic winter California has ever had

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Lesotho, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Réunion, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Réunion, United States

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