CURRENT MISSION

To visit as many countries as possible and to make friends worldwide!

ABOUT ME

Am not your average 29 year old. Work hard, travel as much as I can when time and money allows, and dream of changing the world for the better!

Am short, sociable, and spend a lot of time on the road, both for work and for pleasure. I enjoy travelling solo because I find I meet a lot more people that way.

As of 2011, I call myself a self-employed travel writer, meaning that I have a great job but no money! I already do some work updating travel guidebooks for Rough Guides, Lonely Planet and Trailblazer but want to do that full-time: my dream is to make my passion my profession.

PHILOSOPHY

Though in the vastness that's eternal
My actions will not make a dent
Right here on earth they count for something
My life, I think, is time well spent.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I can't host as much as I'd like to because I'm away from home for weeks at a time, but I've hosted a few people in the past and hope to host more in the future. I also surf when possible and tell fellow travellers about the great concept of Couchsurfing if they're not familiar with it.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've had very positive CouchSurfing experiences, both hosting and surfing myself.

visited 49 states (21.7%)Create your own visited map of The World or jurisdische veraling duits?

Interests

Travel, landscape photography, travel, world cuisine, hiking, outdoor sports, socialising, travel, world cinema, reading, exchanging experiences and ideas with others. Did I mention travel?

• writing
• photography
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• surfing
• sports

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Isabel Allende, Margaret Attwood, Thomas Harris and Jo Nesbo among fiction writers; also a lot of travel writing by Bruce Chatwin, Jan Morris, Redmond O'Hanlon, Jason Eliott, Benedict Allan and more.

Music: Leonard Cohen, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, kd lang, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Nick Cave, the Eels, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Green Day, Bee Gees, Junior Gong, Bob Marley, Juanes, Shakira, George Michael, Metallica...

Some movies I've enjoyed include: Inception, Let The Right One In, Silence of the Lambs, Miss Congeniality, Road to Perdition, Shawshank Redemption...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I correspond with five Death Row inmates in the US and have visited four of them. Not sure that's particularly amazing, but it's a fairly unusual hobby!

Among the amazing things I've seen...the Great Wall of China, Machu Picchu, Easter Island statues, sunrise frm Borneo's highest mountain, the whole length of Siberia...

Teach, Learn, Share

I guess that to teach other people, you need to know something first! Since I was old enough to travel solo, that's where all my time and money went, so I can teach you about all the places I've been to, as well as how to visit a maximum security prison in the States!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Egypt, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Grenada, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, United States