CURRENT MISSION

Traveling around the world without a fixed destination!

ABOUT ME

TWO EYES TO SEE, FOUR LEGS TO GO!
Simo is a musician with a visual handicap, Dino an experienced and passionate traveler. We are travelling to India by tandem, and we'll be looking for some couches to surf! We'd love to share with you out there all the things we'll see and learn by cycling around the world, without a fixed destination.
We're facing almost 15,000 kilometres riding a tandem: from North Italy to India, across the Balkans, Turkey, Iran, ex Soviet Union countries, China, Pakistan and India.. where the journey may find a new start! We are fully equipped with backpacks, tents, high definition videocamera, and computer.

DINO
My name is Dino Lanzaretti, 32, I live travelling the world and occasionally in North Italy (Schio, Vicenza). I've been cycling with my bike across some of the most fascinating, remote, wild, and very much challenging places on the planet.
Travelling around the world without a fixed destination permits me not to be conditioned by time or space limits, and permits me to feel the real author of my life in each and every moment, by deepening the meaning of knowing new people and cultures.. or just contemplating a landscape.
Now I want to share all this with Simo, binding my eyes and my experience to his strong will and the force of his legs.

SIMO
My name is Simone Salvagnin, 25, live in North Italy (Schio, Vicenza). I am a musician who plays drums, and in my spare time I love studying and doing massage. I practice several sports (climbing, swimming, running in the mountains) in spite of Retinitis Pigmentosa, a hereditary disease of the eye that leads to deterioration of vision and which has brought me almost total blindness.
This is why I need continual physical activity, to feel alive and full of positive energy. When I am under stress my thoughts appear clearer and I am able to concentrate much better. It is a kind of active meditation which helps me to gain consciousness and forget my limits.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We're travelling by tandem from Italy to India, and we would appreciate, here and there, to be hosted even just for a night.

Interests

• writing
• running
• meditation
• traveling
• music
• drums
• cycling
• sports
• rock climbing
• swimming
• mountains