CURRENT MISSION

I spent 2013 riding a motorcycle across South America. Im in Kyiv now without any particular plan...get a motorcycle and ride to Cape Town, I guess. Maybe hang around a few months first.

ABOUT ME

This cyrillic keyboard is really difficult to use. I'm 37 and work in IT type stuff. Whatever is necessary for the job. I'm headed for South Sudan to see about picking up some UN work, or working directly for the government. It's better to be autonomous and working for the interests of the country, rather than a UN agency. South Sudan needs some cheap telecom and internet.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I will provide a comfortable space as soon as I have a space to put that space in. Barcelona, San Fran, NYC are the most likely near future spots. I want to get a boat and park it somewhere and live on it. Then move it if I want to. Yeah.

Interests

Traveling of course. Music, books, motorcycles, auto-rickshaws, and building communications infrastructure in the developing world.

• books
• meditation
• motorcycles
• boating
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• communications

Music, Movies, and Books

Cohen Bros, Kubrick, Aphex Twin, Graham Greene, Gogol, Kraftwerk, Bulgakov, Boards of Canada,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Getting lost in southern Peru and finding a maze of ancient roads interconnecting old villages. -17.268384, -70.210501 Several 4 thousand meter volcanoes sat in the distance and a huge crevasse 1 kilometer wide from a long ago earthquake. Polar Siberia at sunset in the middle of the frozen Ob river. The sky and the ice all turn blue and merge as one. The volcano Masaya in Nicaragua. A species of endemic parakeet lives inside the lava filled caldera and flies through the huge sulfuric acid cloud while closing its eyes and holding its breath. Hiking around Annapurna in Nepal. It can be completely silent in spots and as you turn a corner, that massive mountain instantly appears in front of you. It makes me want to build a hut and meditate for 6 months.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Belize, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Greece, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Nepal, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Romania, Russian Federation, Singapore, Spain, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Albania, Egypt, Greece, Mexico, Timor-Leste (East Timor), United States