CURRENT MISSION

Saving up money for my next big trip (TBD)..

ABOUT ME

Norwegian engineer and journalist, working as an energy analyst, interested in well-written reportage and other literature. I travel as often as I can. Lived in Oman and the USA for shorter periods as a kid, been interrailing in Europe twice and travelled from Moscow to Burma in the fall of 2012.

PHILOSOPHY

Keep on keepin' on, as a wise junkie once said.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Host when I can, meet up for drinks/coffee/barbecue any time!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

A late Friday evening request turned into the best weekend in Berne. Only great experiences!

Interests

Literature and coffee is an excellent combo (and especially reading local fiction and drinking local coffee). Otherwise I enjoy British comedy, Indian and Italian cooking, European train travels (including Belgian beer and talkative Germans), Mongolian sunrises, Thai sunsets, Lao bakeries (!), Burmese pagodas, all these people!

• literature
• cooking
• beer
• coffee
• bbq
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• engineering
• journalism
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

I love Ryszard Kapuscinski's reportage, Calvino's inventive novels, Barthelme's and Carver's and Chekhov's and Vonnegut's stories, Hamsun's romance, and the excellent graphic novel Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli. And, I'm no big reader of biographies, but Robert Caro's of LBJ is extraordinary.

Check out my Last FM: http://www.last.fm/user/chreriks

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Bagan, as seen from the top of the Shwesandaw Pagoda.
The Vietnamese countryside experienced by motorbike.
Dawn over the rolling hills of Mongolia on the Trans-Mongolian railway.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Cambodia, China, Croatia, France, Italy, Laos, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Myanmar, New Zealand, Poland, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Norway, Oman, Switzerland, United States