In May 2017 I quit my job to wander and have never regretted it. The best part of my travels is always the amazing people and new friends I have made along the way. :)

IG: carlvitense

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Meet awesome interesting people.

Interests

Hiking, Canoeing, Running, Camping, Nature, Creative Writing, Reading, History, Mythology/Folklore, Jungian Psychology, Shamanism, Comic Books, Sci-fi, Board Games, Lucid Dreaming

• writing
• folklore
• running
• comics
• board games
• hiking
• canoeing
• camping
• history
• psychology
• mountains
• nature
• mythology
• trekking
• science fiction
• shamanism
• ancient history
• lucid dreaming
• positive psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Dune, Les Miserables, Foundation, Fables (comic), The Teachings of Don Juan, A Separate Reality and more by Carlos Castaneda, Entering the Circle and more by Olga Kharitidi, Flourish, The Little Prince, Chronicles of Narnia, Into Thin Air, Celestine Prophecies, Name of the Wind

Movies: Star Wars, LOTR, Willow, Princess Mononoke, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Pan's Labyrinth, Ravenous, Serenity, Tombstone, The Way Back, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Man Who Would Be King

TV: The Simpsons, Penny Dreadful, Battlestar Galactica (new), Firefly, Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Daredevil, Orphan Black, Gurren Lagann and Berserk (Animes)

Music: Foster the People, Huun Huur Tu, Beastie Boys, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, Florence and the Machine, Passion Pit, Gorillaz, All American Rejects, Lumineers, Jack Johnson, Switch foot . . . anything really

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-Skydiving in Oahu Hawaii
-Writing a science fiction novel
-Climbing Mt Rinjani, Kinabalu, Fuji, and Elbert
-Being a treatment foster care parent for 8 years
-Visiting Tibet and Everest Base Camp
-Quitting my jobs to travel
-Being knighted in the Royal and Ancient Society of the Polar Bear in Hammerfest :)
-Completing an Xletix long event with my CS host in Hamburg
-Galapagos Islands!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Good conversation, great listening, sense of humor, random eclectic knowledge

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bolivia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Guatemala, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States