CURRENT MISSION

It is not down in any map, true places never are!

ABOUT ME

Working for an international logistics company I have my soul shipped around the globe all the time! I love to communicate with people from different countries and that's what I do at work every day, but phone, email or skype can never substitute real communication and that's why I prefer traveling to all other hobbies that I have!

I graduated from Linguistic University where I studied English, Arabic and French! My French still leaves much to be desired. Arabic is a bit better, but I still need to recollect my knowledge as I haven't had practice for more than 3 years. Polish turned out to be an easy one for me as I learnt it at work. All this gives me the most important opportunity ever - to understand and to be understood!

I'm married to the best girl on the Planet, whose name is Yulechka. We've been together since school and it's obvious that I love her more than traveling, cause she's not my hobby, she's my life! Well, most of the time we travel together, so luckily my life doesn't have to interfere with my hobby! :)

PHILOSOPHY

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry,
show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.

It's better to regret something you have done,
than to regret something you haven't done.

Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I would love to make people familiar with my country's culture, its traditions and what not while hosting them, being hosted and taking part in CS events! Currently we are "based" in California and as we are slowly getting more and more local here - it makes it easier to show people around and believe me - there's a lot around to show!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Our first experience when Yulechka and I were hosting Todd from San Francisco inspired us to go deeper and deeper in it! Todd is a great person and amazing traveler, Belarus was the 58-th country in his 3-year world trip! Meeting such people you can't stay indifferent to what they are doing! And we couldn't...

SO FAR WE'VE HOSTED:

Todd from San Francisco/USA

Emil from Moscow and his sister Alena from Sochi/RUS

Anthony from New York/USA

Ushi from Tokyo/JPN

Alex from Amsterdam/NL

Nichlas from Bornholm/Denmark

Cihan from Istanbul/Turkey

Enrique from Flensburg/Germany

Antanas and his girlfriend Alina from Vilnius/Lithuania

Jens from Soltau/Germany

Milos from Belgrade/Serbia

Taras from Kyiv/Ukraine

Alexander from Saint Petersburg/RUS

Alexey and Svetlana from Blagoveschensk, the Far East/RUS

Patrik from Helsinki/Finland

Sebastian from Helsinki/Finland

Niels from Utrecht/NL

Taka and Kayo from Osaka/Japan

Soffi from Helsinki/Finland

Julia from Turku/Finland

Alex and Dasha from Moscow

Alex from Moscow

Indre and Ruta from Vilnius, Lithuania

Theo from Oxford, Great Britain

Anton aka Dar Vetra from Moscow, Russia

Austin from Oregon/USA

Kristyna from Brno/Czech Republic

Chris from Boston/USA

WAS HOSTED OR SHOWN AROUND BY:

Barbara in Delhi/India

Nitesh in Delhi/India

Ochani Family in Jaipur/India

Rajat in Agra/India

Nandan and his family in Varanasi/India

Alex in Amsterdam/NL

Parth in Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia

Kuni in Singapore

Scott, Bee and Tailek in Bangkok/Thailand

Samart in Chiang Mai/Thailand

Aldona and Pawel in Warsaw, Poland

Kjell and Tavona in Oslo, Norway

Heinrihs in Riga, Latvia

GOT RANDOMLY ACQUAINTED THROUGH OTHER CS'RS WITH:

Charles from UK in Delhi/India

Billy from Philippines in Minsk

Sven from Belgium in Minsk

Victor from Canada in Minsk

Andrea from Switzerland in Minsk

Matt from France in Minsk

Roni from Seattle/USA in Minsk

Aldana and Dino from Argentina in Singapore

Marius and Ieve from Lithuania in Singapore

Mila from France in Oslo, Norway

...and look forward to host and meet many more!

Interests

I am trying to be good in as many kinds of sport as possible, am pretty competitive in volleyball (both beach and in-door), ultimate frisbee, basketball, soccer, tennis, ping-pong; love snowboarding, horse-riding - pretty much everything you can do on the beach, water, snow, grass... - time to try air! :)

My current goals are to learn surfing and sky-/scuba-diving.
I'm always down to go anywhere by bike, boat or just hiking - being outside and closer to the nature is all that matters!

I can enjoy absolutely silent company chilling and listening to music or watching a nice movie as well as a 33-persons party where all are chatting, debating, yelling and just having a blast!

Cooking and eating tasty and healthy food is one of my other greatest values! Yulechka and I are keen on trying out recipees from all over the world and it should be admitted that those traditional dishes that we've tastied when visiting this or that country are the ones we really succeed in.

Traveling is on top of our interests though. So far we've covered a lot of Europe, USA and Asia, but there are still so many places waiting for us that we're definitely planning to color the whole map below in red! Quite recently we've started a blog about our travels - so don't hesitate to check it out if you are interested:

www.farbeyondtraveling.com

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• culture
• coloring
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• recipes
• partying
• boating
• traveling
• blogging
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• surfing
• scuba diving
• snowboarding
• sports
• basketball
• soccer
• tennis
• volleyball
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

"1 Giant Leap" is one of my favorite movies so far and everything in it's genre definitely attracts my attention.

The music depends on my mood and what I'm doing but more often I prefer chillout, soul, disco, deep-house - something melodic and positive, am also a big fan of such eternal classics as The Beatles, Queen, Michael Jackson, Pink Floyd, etc... Absolutely not keen on cheap pop music though.

My favourite book is "Magic Eye" - the one with 3-d pictures! :-) Just kidding...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The most amazing things are still waiting for their turn, but to name just a few that already happened:

- found the best wife in the world (turned out that I didn't have to travel far to find her, but rather found her at home to travel far together)

- got married on one of the Thai islands

- won the US greencard in a lottery just in time when we were ready to make a huge step and move to the other side of the globe

- made this step and started a new page of life in California

As for the amazing things I've seen - there's quite too many to list, as for some reason I'm amazed by many things I see every day!

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm always happy to teach you any kind of sports I'm good at and learn the ones that are on my current "to-do list" - both categories are described above in the "Interests" section.

Would be glad to show you some national belarusian recipes in exchange for yours of course. :)

Sharing travel stories and pictures usually goes with no request needed - that's the way couchsurfers communicate! :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Cambodia, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, Sweden, Thailand, Ukraine, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belarus, United States

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