New to Bristol, new job. Recent graduate from university, working on boats.

I spent 8 years traveling the world in a VW camper and couchsurfing since 2011. I left a “safe” career in the navy, home and stuff I didn't need, to see what else is out there. Along the way I broke my sailboat, lost the rest of my stuff and started the trip again. Made Al-Jazeera News In Sao Paulo UK Daily Mail
Now I'm Exploring the Americas in a VW bus, just like my heroes: That guy and this guy and this other guy too.

PHILOSOPHY Fear < Love Honesty is best. "Be here now" - Ram Dass, Oasis "Wherever you go, there you are." - Confucius, Buckaroo Banzai
¨Your time is limited, so don'€™t waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma€” which is living with the results of other people'€™s thinking. Don'™t let the noise of others'€™ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.¨ - Steve Jobs
Costliness and wealth bring me no pleasure; the only happiness I care to find derives from setting treasure in my mind, and not from mind that's set on winning treasure. I prize no comeliness. All fair things pay to time, the victor, their appointed fee and treasure cheats even the practiced eye. Mind is the better and the truer way; to leave the vanities of life aside, not throw my life away on vanity. - Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Rideshares, stories, food, camping, tools, music, friendship!

However I can from California to Ushuaia to Rio to Europe!

"Great Plains"
by Bruce Willard
I could drive for days without fear...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

(highlights):
Skippered a 30ft wooden trimaran sailboat on a 750-mile rally from San Diego California to Cabo San Lucas Mexico,
made new friends in Baja and down Mexico's west coast,
drove around Guatemala twice,
skydived and surfed El Salvador,
became a divemaster and SCUBA instructor in Honduras,
got stuck in the mud in Ometepe, Nicaragua,
swindled by an English speaking mechanic in Costa Rica,
drove through indigenous protests in Panama,
taugh SCUBA in Colombia,
surfed Ecuador and Galapagos,
walked to Machu Picchu and followed the Dakar rally in Peru,
drove the Careterra Astral in Chile to Ushuaia,
saw Indio Solari in Argentina and
celebrated Halloween in Uruguay,
mourned the end of the Kombi at VW HQ and navigated the cement jungle of Sao Paulo, Brazil,
Carnaval in Rio
and sailed from the Caribbean to the Medl
... :)

Interests

Sustainable travel: What sustains me and others? How can we sustain the human race's course on this planet?

Even while I burn fossil fuels and use petroleum products daily :( I recycle and use solar power for my electricity and will soon study to build a wind/solar dive sailboat for cruising/chartering.

• dining
• instructor
• news
• traveling
• music
• camping
• scuba diving
• sailing

Music, Movies, and Books

Let's talk about yours instead!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

night watch adrift on my sailboat in a whale calving area outside Isla Cedros in Vizcaino Bay, Baja Mexico

My main parachute drifting away from me over the Soyapongo highway in San Salvador as my reserve chute opened above me.

Teach, Learn, Share

SCUBA, Sailing, English, middle management ;)

Film, indie music, surf, wiring solar panels, VW maintenance

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, England, France, Germany, Guam, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City State, Virgin Islands, British

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, France, Honduras, United Kingdom, United States

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