I was born in Montreal. There, I grew up until my late twenties. I was a boxer, a painter and a writer on the way to becomes a boozer when I dropped out of Univ and left for Beijing. Bar less than a year spent in Montreal (after being deported from Thailand) I lived in Asia (mostly China and Thailand) since 2004. Until about a year and a half ago, when I landed in France to take advantage of my newfound dual citizenship (Adding French to Canadian, that is). I got family here, I joined a HVAC-R tech program to get more job opportunities. A job means money and money means I can hit the road again and a good profession means I'm employable the world over. Yay. Now, this said... faudrait peut-être que je profite aussi du fait que je suis en France pour faire connaissance de manière un peu plus approfondie.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm mainly on couch surfing for the same reason many are: to be able to have a place to go when I need to close my eyes, wherever I am in the world in order to be able to be fresh and rested to continue on the road or look out for my own place! And I reciprocate, of course. I'm a citizen of the world and I'm at war against the concepts of borders, forking out absurd fees to be allowed to merely live anywhere on this world and ah... all the man made pain and suffering, such superfluous an item to produce and maintain!

Interests

Traveling by foot, bicycle, motorbike, boat... submarine... even by plane. Mingling with new and old people... Having and maintaining contact with a worldwide family. Cycling (long distance, only... I commute only out of necessity and need for freedom). I sometimes have urges to paint, write, dance and play music. I also have bouts of creativity in such domains as cutting up, stitching and assembling items made out of various fabrics, including leather I recuperate from old junk (I dig my smartphone's case made out of a pair of old beat up English shoes). I like to mess with plumbing, electricity (about to get my creds in electrotechnics and refrigerant manipulation!) and other things pertaining to what makes a human shelter works (bamboo houses on stilts are on my list of things to experiment with). To study the philosophy of others to find some sort of congeniality or opportunities to rethink my views... Ah reading. Yeah. Oh well: I'd like to flatter myself and say that I am somewhat of a Renaissance man.

• writing
• books
• literature
• dancing
• boating
• technology
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• music
• cycling
• surfing
• boxing

Music, Movies, and Books

I have no definite favorites. Anything that doesn't leave me indifferent. I think it's everybody's case, right?

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One? Oh man... I have seen things you people wouldn't believe... starships on fire off the... hehe! C'mon! One thing! With a friend, I've cycled through China from Beijing to Kunming during rain season, despite being warned of the madness of the enterprise. It was mad, indeed. We met with Death (sometimes the death of unlucky ones), wild hardships, amazing characters (for good or for ill, depending on what made them amazing), majesty (sometimes heavenly, sometimes terrifying).... Once, I did 45 klicks in a day, the following day, it was nearly 280 klicks. I finished the last eighty klicks on one gear, everything else being irremediably jammed up. I was a heavy boozer, at the time and I did the entire trip using white rice spirit and sprite in lieu of water supply. We shared the road with a Russian prostitute and her two compagnons (One French, one Portuguese) who were crossing China on mules. We slept in places, only a few would believe. Okay, enough: to describe the trip, I'd need to write a book. And travel literature isn't au gout du jour anymore.

Teach, Learn, Share

Sure, I'll teach a bit of what I know, if I know how (and that is the big question one has to ask first: can I teach?) And I'm an avid learner, once interested. When we have, we share, when we have not, we share.

What I Can Share with Hosts

If I dig you, you'll feel home enough. If I dig you big time, you'll know it. It's on a case by case basis, really.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, France, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, China, France, Laos, Thailand