CURRENT MISSION

explore the world and meet new friends all over the globe

ABOUT ME

Carpe Diem!

PHILOSOPHY

When we board that plane or get that visa stamped, we are instantly reminded that we are fundamentally free beings. We are free to go where we want and do what we want. Our car payments do not dictate our life choices.

Travel shows us that we’re free to do anything. We can stomp grapes in Italy, surf in Costa Rica, or fire dance in Thailand. We just need to make that choice...

We measure our feelings of self worth on how shiny and new the plastic of our recent purchase is. We define ourselves by the brands we wear or don’t wear. We allow automated computer programs to categorize our likes and dislikes for us.

Travel reminds us who we are and what we aren’t. We aren’t jobs, currency, automobiles, or textiles. And that’s never more clear than when drifting down the river in a bamboo raft on a sunny day. We’re never more in touch with our identity than when we’re navigating the streets of a new city whose language we can’t understand, using a map we can’t read. We can be nothing but ourselves when we travel. And we should always remember that!

As travelers, our bravery is continually challenged. Whether it is packing up all our belongings to move to another country or joining in a cliff diving session during a summer trip, travel is relentlessly asking more of us and testing what we’re made of.

But once we’re there, flying over borders or off the cliff’s edge, the rewards are immense. We are no longer seeing ourselves as we’d like to be; we are becoming the people we’d like to be. And that feeling is incomparable.

Every new trip breeds new understanding. We see new landscapes, meet different people, gather new experiences. Travel helps us further along our intellectual and emotional evolution.

Travel reminds us that life isn’t a series of boxes to be checked off or a succession of requisite motions. We are alive to be alive, learning growing and along the way. Everything else is minutiae.

Stop being perfect. It is more important to be evolved.

Travel warns us to never lose sight of the essential. It’s easy to get hustled along on a guided path, but much more satisfying to forge your own way. As travelers, we need to keep in mind these reasons and our goals for why we travel.

“This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.” [Tyler Durden, Fight Club]

Interests

I like all kind of sports. Want to learn surfing, bigtime ;)

• dancing
• clubbing
• flying
• traveling
• cars
• surfing
• scuba diving
• sports

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Denmark, Fiji, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Laos, New Zealand, Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Thailand, United Kingdom, Vanuatu, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Germany