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Overview

  • 40 references 36 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Russian; learning German, Polish, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian
  • 27, Male
  • Member since 2014
  • nomad
  • electrical engineer
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

Search for travel mates for the latin american trip, starting from 15 Sept! For 6 months or more!

Usual hitchhiking traveler from Moscow region.

Extreme travelling , camping and hiking at 100-150$ per month that's what I'm doing in my free time, which I have a lot
At the age of 20 I crossed all Russia hitchikking from Vladivostok to Moscow i realised i cant live a usual life, it doesnt satisfy me; cant live having 11month of work and only 1 for travels, thats why im here.
At 22 went solo to Chernobyl illegally and got caught and detained by ukranian military.
Same year went hitching from Moscow to Spain through Finland to walk Camino De Santiago pilgrimage, but had the backpack stolen in Basque country of France, at the starting point lol .
Went to church there and received a new one, clothes and sleeping bag and after it walked 900 km across Spain.
Spent covid travelling in Israel and got evacuated to Russia.
In 2021 i hiked Lycian way in Turkey, and hitchhiked all over Russia in 5 months to North Korean border with friends and alone including Baikal-Amur railroad (tougher than transsiberian) train hitchhiking, I was asking train drivers to ride with them for 1500 km. Favourite place was the far eastern republic, we flew a very remote local plane for 20$ and helicopter for the same price
In 2022 worked on a strawberry farm and construction in England.
Hiked to mansy stone formation Manpupuner in Urals mountains 220 km without seeing civilization with my friend.
2023: 20 new countries. Armenia, Georgia
3 weeks in Iceland, hitching from Romania to Norway and traveling 1 month from Oslo to Tromsø, Lofoten islands are great.
hiked Peaks of Balkans trail in Albania and Montenegro.
lived 2 weeks with hippies in Albania on a beach .

I am not interested in cities - travel by nature and people.
i like mountains, abondoned stuff, villages and towns off the beaten path where nobody would travel; overnighting in a tent at unusual places, such as near the old city wall in Jerusalem or inside giant drained water channel , in caves or abandoned villages or on top of a hill - feeling of waking up in those places is unimaginable)

dont care much about many things, some pp who i know call me a weird one, but what is a normality?
I like crazy genuine people that do not follow the so-called social rules, have no boundaries for jokes, can talk freely of their feelings or problems.

I enjoy crazy ideas , their realization and pushing limits.
I'm not resentful , tell me the truth.
Actually words do not mean anything and that's the reason why it's hard to offend me.
Some ppl say I'm the most straight person they've seen in their lifes, but I don't think so..

if theres one thing that stresses me out is
being touched with wet hands lol
do you wanna talk about the new world order, why is the globalization bullshit or what is tea made of?
road is more important than destination

I'm against war
I don't like having too much people around me and laugh at fake people :))
Extraverted introvert (INTJ) , can't withstand normies.
Impatient, honest and politically incorrect.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

there are normies in hostels!!

Interests

Biggest passion - hiking long distance trails and wild camping, combining with hitchhiking; i have been to Elbrus 2015, Kilimanzharo 2016, Kamchatka 2017 , Chernobyl illegally 2019 (ough,that was tough) , Camino de Santiago Frances 2019 , Israel - Schvil Israel 2020, Turkey - Likian way in 2021.

i like geography, maths , geopolitics and economics.
hobbies except crazy travels - collecting bank cards, languages, cooking, occasionally earning money and loosing it by investing it into stocks and crypto! it's awesome!

sports : usually every morning i do physical exercises,ask me to do it together, before I did water polo ,biathlon and table tennis.

would like to dance bachata,but not very good at it,need practise

if you're a host invite me to play table tennis, football, cycling, badminton,chess, frisbee, cycle or basically any activity!
I would like it.

Eating healthy is one of my habits; fruits and raisins,dates, dried fruits. Healthy food can be cheap and tasty!
I never go to restaurants ,never buy water

Have 2 huge dogs and love animals.

  • animals
  • cooking
  • politics
  • hiking
  • sports
  • swimming
  • hitchhiking
  • travelling
  • life
  • fruits
  • rainbow gathering

Music, Movies, and Books

for some reason i like drug addicts music such as drum and bass, hip-hop,techno and cloud rap , pop ,but also it should be melodical
I listen to everything,from icelandic rap to turkish pop, russian shanson and romanian gypsy songs.
skibidi wa-pa-pa

favorite books
Robinson Crusoe
The Little Prince
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
1984

never watch movies, only youtube and football.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

born in a country of possibilities
camping in pripyat
icelandic hot river day+ night
camino de santiago x2
jail in jordan
manpupuner stone formations
cave life in cappadocia and tenerife
seeing newborn goat in rioja
zebras in africa
red square in moscow
sunset at mediterranian
tenting at the albanian border
waterfall and heli ride in tofalariya
puffins and seal at faroese
cliffs at værøy
porquipine and skunk in usa

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can teach you hitchhiking, how to live and travel with low budget, how to find cheap flights,how to find places of interest in certain places, how and where to camp, lightweight backpacking,where to buy the gear;
how to make simple relaxing massage;
how to add simple sport excercizes to your daily routine;
how to take awesome photos;
how to cook;
how to choose watermelon and fruits;
how to cut hair by yourself;

how to buy crypto and transfer money internationally, how to invest into stock market
how to fix mobiles,install customs ROMs, cracked apps on phones and pc,download music and everything for free from the interwebs and have free YouTube without ads :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Montenegro, Morocco, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, United Kingdom

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