... I'm getting older, my body needs some fine-tuning, but I feel young! My personality is split 50/50: independent loner or rampaging socialite...I have a great many faults!

My hero has always been Bugs Bunny: he never gets caught; he always outsmarts his rival; and he always has something witty to say.

MISSION:
... traveling for Therapy & Perspective ...

PHILOSOPHY:
"No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn." -JIM MORRISON

"Every man thinks that his burden is the heaviest ..... but who feels it knows it, Lord." - BOB MARLEY

"Gladly did I live and gladly die and I lay me down with a will." -ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

"Paradise on my right, Hell on my left, and the Angel of Death behind!." -FRANK HERBERT

"Those who love wisdom must investigate many things." -HERACLITUS

"Having no destination, I am never lost." -IKKYU

"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." -SAMUEL JOHNSON

"To know and not to do is not to know." -CONFUCIOUS

"Everything I do, I rush through so I can do something else." -STEPHEN DOBYNS

"Be good and you will be lonesome." -SAMUEL CLEMENS

"We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time." -TS ELIOT

"Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery." -THOMAS FULLER

"There are always wonderful things ahead of you even if you take a wrong turn." -AMANDA STAERKER

"I burn me likkle spliff / I burn me chalice / And Babylon keep malice / But they can't stop I from burn I herbs in I palace." -LUCIANO

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me" ...... "If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing right" ...... "Buy the ticket, take the ride." -HUNTER S. THOMPSON

"If we cannot be free, at least we can be cheap." -FRANK ZAPPA

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to travel and host. Traveling is a quality of life necessity. I am glad to be a part of a network that advances international harmony and learning.

As a host, raw vacation experiences are brought to my doorstep.

I finally surfed (in Barcelona); the people there are beautiful and welcoming!

Interests

Reading/Writing,
Dogs & Cats,
Futbol, Pool, Darts, Beach Volleyball,
Nature,
Beach,
Biking,
Backpacking/Trekking,
Camping,
RECREATION! (not necessarily in that order)

• cats
• dogs
• culture
• writing
• reading
• traveling
• billiards
• darts
• cycling
• backpacking
• camping
• hunting
• volleyball
• languages
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Marley, Zeppelin, Beatles, Doors, Dylan - Reggae - Trance

Horror, Comedy, Depressing, Documentary
(My favorite movie: BAD SANTA)

Hunter S. Thompson - Charles Bukowski - Albert Camus -
JRR Tolkien - H.P. Lovecraft - Robert Heinlein -
Guy de Maupassant - Alexandre Dumas - Jean Giono - Graciliano Ramos
Joseph Conrad - Robert Louis Stevenson - Jack London - Edgar Allan Poe

Travel Journalists; Geography; Anthropology; Ecology; History; Astrophysics; Fantasy/Science Fiction

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Living in Costa Rica and tossing myself down many waterfalls! Me encanta a Costa Rica! Pura Vida, mae!

Teach, Learn, Share

I want to absorb languages, culture, and worldviews of internationals everywhere. All are unique, and none without talent to offer. Let us experience all: fortune and misdeed; good and evil; life and death.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My own unique travel experiences ... the natural goodwill of an earth-lover/sun-worshipper ... and a bad-ass worldview!

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahamas, Canada, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Costa Rica, United States

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