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Overview

  • 66 references 31 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Spanish
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Day-Trader
  • BS in aviation science
  • From Park City, UT, USA
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About Me

Honestly, I'm in a transition phase of life. I've travelled so much in the last three years that I'm almost craving stability and home. I haven't lived in one place for longer than 4 months in the last 5 years. It's been one part amazing, one part unstable. I'm currently shifting the way I travel and trying to get grounded a little more in each place. I like learning where the grocery stores are, and where yoga is, or mediation... maybe meeting the same people more than a few times. perhaps it's age, perhaps it's because I pushed travel a little too far, but right now I'm seeking more depth in a people and places instead of the never-ending change of scenery that travel often gives. I still enjoy that too though :)

Currently I'm trying to learn the stock market. Day-trading is my latest passion, I just need to stop losing money with it!

I enjoy meditation, yoga, climbing/bouldering, chess, meeting new people.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've Couchsurfed in a lot of places, but the places don't matter. The people are who I remember. The most important people in my life are CSers, it's impossible to explain all of the experiences. With couch surfers I have experienced skydiving, love, marriage, beaches, mountains, hiking, divorce, best friends, tears, skinny-dipping, mental breakdowns, smiles, insane coincidences, etc.

Interests

I'm curious about everything and all types of people. I like being a little nervous after meeting new people, and then that smile afterwards when you feel a new connection with someone.

  • books
  • photography
  • coffee
  • flying
  • chess
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • philosophy
  • psychology
  • tourism
  • rivers
  • mountains
  • laughing
  • hugs
  • love

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Before Sunrise/Sunset/Mignight, Good Will Hunting, the Dead Poets Society, Waking Life, Lost in Translation, Wristcutters

Books: Steppenwolf, Don Quixote, Siddhartha, Les Miserables, War and Peace, IT, Moby Dick, Anna Karenina, Old Man and the Sea, One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest, 1984, Atlas Shrugged, Bel Canto, Shantaram, Kingkiller Chronicles, Hamlet,

Music: Piano and Punk

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Vipassana in Indonesia

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you to fly a helicopter, but would rather just get a beer.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Whatever I have.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Suriname, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United States, Uruguay, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belarus, Canada, Scotland, Thailand, United States

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