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Overview

  • 8 references 8 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Russian, Spanish; learning Chinese (Simplified)
  • 43, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • No occupation listed
  • Software engineer, Master degree
  • From Leningrad (St.Petersburg), USSR (Russia)
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Surviving the travelling withdrawal symptoms

ABOUT ME

Prefere that people could form their opinion on what type of person I am from reallife communication and whithout hints from me beforetime, because usualy people percieve me much better than I think of myself

PHILOSOPHY

The hard way is always the most rewarding one
Prefere not to be manupulated neither manipulate anyone myself
Fears should not participate in setting goals and making decisions
A person should be treated individually on a basis of real life experience and not as a member of a group (nation, social class, profession etc)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Now I'm ready to host

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I joined couchserfing during longtime bicycle tour in South America to have opportunities to know better city dwellers and have deeper understanding of life in countries that I passed by. It's easy in the countryside: when you camp close to people curiosity drives them to you. Big cities doesn't let you use this "trick": you just cannot camp there. Staying at hostels or hotels doesn't provide enough communication, because first of all you are treated as yet another tourist (and I prefere to consider a traveller), second, you potential circle of communication is quite limited, and finally hotel personel doesn't have enough spare time for chatting. CS gave me what I was looking for, though I didn't exploited it too much.

Interests

Wild nature, hit the road (or, preferably, offroad), people and their view of life

  • traveling
  • camping

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Crossed South America from very North to ultimate South by bicycle

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belarus, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Peru, Ukraine, United States, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation

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