CURRENT MISSION

hey

ABOUT ME

I will be brief. I am a happy guy who is thoroughly interested in other cultures, history and outlooks. I am not looking for much except a friendly welcome and some damn good conversation.

Next on the lists are Iran, Sri Lanka, North Spain, Alabnia and West Africa.

PHILOSOPHY

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain.

Don't sacrifice your best days so you can have a double garage!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

well my place in yours and of course I am a happy-go-lucky, clean guy who loves talking and socialising with anyone and everyone.

Interests

travelling, being other places, all sports, reading great novels and history, anthropology, conversing.

• coffee
• reading
• traveling
• sports
• rock climbing
• anthropology
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

I really can't write down all the books, music and movies (in that order) that I've loved and enjoyed.

Some quick examples of
writers: Camus, Nabakov, Coetzee, Garcia Marquez, Celine, Orwell, Huxley, Dickens, Beckett
music: The Silver Jews, The National, Bob Marley, Titus Andronicus, Stevie Wonder, Motown, Aretha, Louis Armstrong, Bowie
Movies: Once Upon a Time in America, Big Fish, Dumb and Dumber, 2001, Star Wars, Jaws, Indiana Jones, Departures

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Working on Indian Reservations in Brazil, visiting North Korea. Spending a glorious week in East Timor. Climbing the Andes. Being in Tibet. Entering Northern Uganda. Seeing Orcas in Canada, Being on the coffee farms of Colombia, chimps in Uganda, lions in Africa and orangutans in Borneo. Bavaria in April, Serbia, Eastern Europe in general. New York in glorious May.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Estonia, Fiji, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Korea, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Turkey, Uganda, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Japan, Poland, Qatar, South Korea