CURRENT MISSION

Check out my travel webiste! http://www.ouroyster.com

ABOUT ME

Like most people on this site... I love travel! I have been to 60 countries and am currently back from an 8 month trip through South and North America.

I have a corporate job in the city and also write a travel blog in my spare time. My blog is at www.ouroyster.com, leave a comment on one of my recent articles for extra brownie points.. haha!

I am trying to learn Spanish, and my 5 year old goes to a French school, so extra points if you speak either of those languages and can help us with some practice.

PHILOSOPHY

Don't wait until tomorrow

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I used to have stats on here about how many times I have hosted and surfed... but lost count. I used to host and surf TONS when I lived in Europe. Since moving to Australia I haven't been as active due to small apartments.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I used to have stats here but I lost track. See my references for a better idea :)

Interests

Climate Change
Sustainable Living
Learning about new cultures
Documentaries
Volunteering
Travel writing
Photography
Reading about history
Drinking wine

• writing
• photography
• documentaries
• cooking
• wine
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• blogging
• history
• statistics
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Mostly I just like books. This is really hard to fill out because I am a book-a-holic. The amazon website is like a death trap for me. I love reading all sorts of books; sociology, travel literature, history, classics, etc, etc. If it is in print I will like it. I love books so much, they are the biggest problem with my moving around the world...

I like many varieties of music, even the genres that I say I do not like (example: country) I can still find one or two songs that I do. However, I mostly listen to trip hop, acid jazz, and indie stuff.

Movies are fun. I particularly like movies that have subtitles.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was once stranded outside a train station in Dombovar in Hungary. It was the middle of January, the middle of the night, and I was outside and cold and wrapped in my bright orange sleeping bag. My train was not due for several more hours. A man kept approaching me and trying to talk to me, but he didnt speak a word of english. Eventually he got someone on his mobile that *sort of* spoke english, and this man told me to go with the other man. I considered the good possibility of being sold into the sex trade or merely just murdered, but instead he put me up into the engine room of a very old train, and then drove me half way across hungary to where I needed to catch my flight from. It was the most amazing random act of kindness I have ever experianced, and just goes to show that not all people out there are bad!

Dumpster diving in London with my host from London Calling a year previous. The amount of wastefulness that large urban centers is really very appalling, and engaging in dumpster diving was an extremely liberating experience for me.

Driving across North America from coast to coast. Well not really driving, since I myself don't have my license. I took the greyhound from New York to Winnipeg, then met up with some CSers who were driving across Canada and drove with them from Winnipeg to Vancouver. After visiting friends out there, I took the greyhound back to Winnipeg again. I guess Ive gone coast to coast 1.5 times now!

Teach, Learn, Share

If you cook for us we would love you forever. Especially if you cook something cool from your home country.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Our beautiful penthouse apartment plus lots of local knowledge.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Fiji, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Maldives, Morocco, Netherlands, New Caledonia, Norway, Romania, Samoa, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Tonga, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, New Zealand, United Kingdom

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