Learned to travel my own country and now I’m ready to travel yours

"Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself." Anthony Bourdain

"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is an encounter with God and with eternity,' the boy told his heart. 'When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous, because I've known that every hour was a part of the dream that I would find it'." -Coelho’s Alchemist

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

• To hear another’s story and to be able to see my own in a different light

• Amazing hosts:
October 2016- Rang in Shanghai
November 2016- Dan in Chongqing
December 2016- Tomasz in Zhaoqing
January 2017- Matt in Hanoi
February 2017- Ed, Eric, Janice- Kuching
April 2017- Eldar, Mikel, Daniel, Adam, Douglas and Paul in Perth
May 2017- Dan and Marcel in Brno
October 2017- Pierre in Paris
July 2019 – Paul (Jun-goo) in Gyeongju

Interests

• cats
• arts
• books
• music festivals
• film festivals
• cooking
• yoga
• marathon
• running
• meditation
• reading
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• surfing
• sports
• basketball
• swimming
• languages
• cultures
• foodie
• healthy eating
• healthy lifestyle
• foreign languages
• computers
• health and fitness

Music, Movies, and Books

• Aladdin Movie
• The Sixth Man (Iguodala)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Got to visit my childhood dream of seeing the tallest trees in Redwood National Park (Arcata, California)

What I Can Share with Hosts

I’d be happy to tag along and play the sport of your choice, whether it’s basketball or swimming laps. Also, prepare a meal, if no stove, a salad. Etc.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Laos, Macao, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Malaysia, Mexico, Serbia, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United States