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Overview

  • 22 references 13 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Afrikaans, English; learning Creole, Dutch, French, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Lingala, Persian (Farsi), Russian, Swahili, Turkish, Wolof
  • 49, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Adventure Traveler - Digital Nomad
  • University of Life
  • From Cape Town, South Africa
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION: Drive around the world...

AFRICA - 36 done
EUROPE - 24 done
ASIA - 13 done
N AMERICA - 3
S AMERICA - 0!

ABOUT ME

I am relatively cool and collected, philosophical, curious, and a keen observer of the human condition. Communication is my forte. I prize knowledge and enjoy sharing it with others. I have tremendous insight into what makes people tick and can usually spot a phony a mile away. I am an idea person - continually on the lookout for exciting new ways to implement my plans. I am ambitious and adventurous and love traveling to exotic foreign places. I am multi-talented and an inveterate networker. Luck and good fortune seem to follow me around - as if I'm under the protection of a guardian angel. I am a dichotomy of independence versus dependence.

PHILOSOPHY

there are only 3 things in life you HAVE to do:
eat, sleep, shit;
the rest are details...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am travelling most of the time, so I spread the word to other travellers and share my experience with CS'ers

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Lagos, NIGERIA - was hosted by a fellow South African.
Brazzaville, CONGO - picked up a French CSer who was also hosted by same guy in Lagos - small world!
I like expats showing me their favourite things about their adopted countries:
Hosted by a German and a Finn in Uzbekistan!
By a Russian in Kazakhstan,
By a Brit in Angola,
By an American on the Canary Islands,
By a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana,
By a Belarussian in Minsk,
By an Estonian in Tallinn,
and the list keeps growing...
Hosted many surfers in my vehicle while travelling.

Interests

Cooking Food, Playing Music, Travelling, learning new naughty words to make people in uniform laugh!

  • dining
  • cooking
  • traveling
  • music
  • volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

travel writing, I collect music, movies and instruments in each country I pass through

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

jumped out of perfectly normal aeroplanes

Teach, Learn, Share

the journey IS the destination - the interruptions ARE the journey

What I Can Share with Hosts

playing musical instruments,
cooking,
massage,
mechanical and IT skills,
travel advice and stories

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Angola, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, China, Congo, Croatia, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Swaziland, Sweden, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Ghana, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Romania, South Africa, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

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