my mission is to suck the bowling ball of possibility through the straw of limitations..

although to be fair, there aren't that many limitations. life is full of amazing opportunities to do all sorts of wonderful things.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

i've stayed on many couches, couches of people i've known for years, people i've randomly met on my travels, friends of friends, and people who host the kind of parties that are sometimes hard to leave... and of course my own couch has often been kept warm at night by various people too.. so it goes!

here are some couchsurfing experiences which i would never have had without this amazing website:

stayed with maria in kaiserslautern
met up with katie for the first of many times during the world cup.. party on, chicken!
stayed with matthias and nico in stuttgart
stayed with maria in kaiserslautern again, she rocks!
stayed with lauren in paris
went out for a drink (or 8) with roman in paris
stayed with shirlz, paul and lizzie in edinburgh
hosted carrie from the US
hosted john from wales
hosted angelika from germany
took nicole out to see a band
hosted jonas from germany (nico's brother!)
hosted julie and cathie from quebec
hosted saskia from belgium
took jill from the US out for a drink and couple of comedy shows
hosted birgit from germany
hosted alexandro from mexico
shayla and her hyper dog juno took me on a great lake walk in whistler, canada
dale took me out for burgers in whistler, canada
stayed with rob in vancouver
stayed with nico and matthias again in stuttgart, had a great time again... awesome guys!
stayed with dora in budapest
hosted sara from holland
took maria from russia out for dinner
hosted ank from holland
hosted nikki from seattle
hosted sophie and veronica from quebec
hosted matthias and yvonne from stuttgart
stayed with cejana in new york
hosted steffan and anje from stuttgart
hosted damian from france
hosted tokeah and annika from germany
hosted mareike from germany
hosted ludi from france
partied with jeremy (le_mex) in paris
stayed with kendra in chengdu
hosted cejana from new york
hosted julie and sabrina from france
hosted david from france
hosted lena from germany
stayed with louis in miami
stayed with peter in nottingham
stayed with maya in porto alegre
hosted sandra from quebec
hosted dominick from austria

Interests

i love the thrill of wandering out into a new place or unknown street and feeling the promise of the next moment.. i love playing music, usually on my guitar.. and i love getting the chance to learn the smile of a new friend!

• partying
• drinking
• music
• guitar
• bowling
• world cup

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i once rode a camel out into the sahara desert one morrocan dusk, whilst suffering a truly monumental case of the runs... a stranger combination of happiness and anguish i have never experienced!

it seemed like someone snuck out to the saharan sky the night before we arrived and put up about 20 million extra stars. i think that the star-installing vigilante must have also swung by my camel on the way back and installed about three extra knees, because the thing moved with a total absence of rhythm.

after i launched myself onto the saddle, the thing felt like it stood up about five times. after it wobbily ascended with the unfolding of all the limbs i thought it could possibly have, it found another couple of joints and just kept rising. when it started to walk, it felt like i was riding a cross between a new born giraffe and an enormous sack of angry squirrels. as our camel train left the station, it became obvious that our arses were in for a pounding of the highest order, and not in a good way.

but before long, we were suddenly lost from the rest of the world, the horizon a complete circle of simple sandy curves, the sky a total blue. with the lack of anything to hold them in, your thoughts start rolling with the endless burnt orange dunes, hinting and tracing their lines, drifting beyond sight. and then thumping back to the reality of having your tender arse being mercilessly hammered on a camel hump every two seconds, and the distressing possibility that large volumes of liquid could explode from any number of orifices at any moment.

truly a unique experience...

Teach, Learn, Share

hmmm, what to write here?? this morning i burned myself in the shower in rather amusing circumstances. i usually like to have a pretty cold shower, being so wimpy and cool and everything. anyway, i'd worked up a good lather when i managed to accidentally launch the bar of soap into the hot tap, cranking it up a fair notch. i was holding the shampoo in my right hand, so i lunged for the hot tap desperately with my left. being right handed, i of course turned it up by mistake. yelping with pain at this most unwelcome of temperature increases, i frantically went for the cold tap instead. of course, by this stage my brain thought it knew which way was which, so i accidentally turned the cold tap completely off, scalding myself nicely with pure hot water... arrrrgggHHHHHH....

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Laos, Lesotho, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia

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