If all of my different friends shared stories about me, there would have been an intervention years ago

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Travel is little beds and cramped bathrooms. It's old television sets and slow Internet connections. Travel is extraordinary conversations with ordinary people. It's waiters, gas station attendants, and housekeepers becoming the most interesting people in the world. It's churches that are compelling enough to enter. It's McDonald's being a luxury. It's the realization that you may have been born in the wrong country. Travel is a smile that leads to a conversation in broken English. It's the epiphany that pretty girls smile the same way all over the world. Travel is the same white T-shirt again tomorrow. Travel is accented sex after good wine and too many unfiltered cigarettes. Travel is flowing in the back of a bus with strangers. It's a street full of bearded backpackers looking down at maps. Travel is wishing for one more bite of whatever that just was. It's the rediscovery of walking somewhere. It's sharing a bottle of liqour on an overnight train with a new friend. Travel is "Maybe I don't have to do it that way when I get back home." It's nostalgia for studying abroad that one semester. Travel is realizing that life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

Interests

snowboard, kitesurfing, skiing, sailing, squash, gym, good movies and books

• books
• wine
• walking
• movies
• traveling
• sailing
• skiing
• snowboarding
• racquetball
• cartography
• squash

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Fight Club, Dazed and Confused, Bad Boys, Gladiator and hundred more
Books: Salinger, Bukowski, Kerouac, Agata Chtistie, Conan Doyle, George RR Martin, Orwell, Huxley, JRR Tolkien, JK Rowling,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Off-piste snowboarding from 3300m in Switzerland. The moment when your thighs as well as your moral turn to steel.

Teach, Learn, Share

Always go with the decision that will make for a good story.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Monaco, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Poland, United States