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  • 28 references 23 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning Russian, Spanish
  • 46, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • organising naturenear, unconventional travels all over th...
  • architect / civil engineer (oh my goodness!-)
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About Me

My home is PLANET EARTH with focal points in Georgia, Cyprus, Armenia, the Balkans and the Baltics, the Post-Soviet-Area, Scandinavia and Oceania.
I was born in Leipzig (former German Democratic Republic, east/central German-speaking climes), where I still enjoy the true country (landscape, nature, culture, some people that remained nice, not the formal 'state') from time to time as a visitor.

If you want to test-live authentic, state-independent nature- and freedom-paradises of the mentioned areas (sleeping is mostly in your own room in the house or if wished in tent/yurt/caravan/boat :), feel free to ask me for my year-plan to join something really meaningful and profound.

And if you -on the other hand side- would like to host / get to know me as an unconventional (but dilligent, clean, characterful and healthy) person, I'd love to integrate your home-stay into my yearly travel-and-care-schedule.

LIFE - MISSIONS:

- creating of sustainable sanctuaries (rural ecofarms in authentic landscapes, historical town-buildings with cultural re-awakening-potential) as a mutually fertilizing and securing 'decentralized-home-nexus' for unfolding an independent way of doing and a responsible joy of true and meaningful life-qualities
in the Caucasus, the Baltics, the Post-Soviet-area, the Balkans, Saxony-Poland, Scandinavia and Oceania,
as much as possible save from the 'hamsterwheel of the system' (mostly completely offgrid and step by step worked out to be cosy and comfortable for what really counts in life)

- optionally continuing to find suiting people (respectful, caring, loyal, openminded and honestly willing to change something to the good in practice) for this truly alternative, small new world in a GIVING-TAKING-PRICIPLE

- leading unique (because totally non-commercial and therefore truly authentic) worldwide nature-travels

- joining, but also self-organising folk-/rock-/worldmusic-concerts/-parties/-small-stages/-dj-dancing-nights/-musicvideo-sessions worldwide, but especially in the still 'wild' and authentic (means less restricted and less 'sterilised') regions, mentioned above,
and in that way also supporting non-commercial, creative bands and artists of different genres by facilitating the beautiful 'stages' they deserve.

- upcycling of existing values instead of supporting a commercial, planet-destroying system of endless purchase/profit with new products, built to be 'waste' in a short time

- building a cms-homepage about my doing (looking for support of somebody with IT-technical knowledge to implement the best suiting website-builder that is logic and systematic even for an IT-alien like me and allows independence and website-safety)

- finding the right balance between improvisation and well planning / between travelling and home-building / between adventures and calmness

- surfing couches / meeting locals to widen my own horizon (lifelong process)

- integrating interested people into my individual life-philosophy and into my 'tribe' of open-minded human beings, who want to unfold into something meaningful

some of my MOTTOs

- "make the impossible possible"

- GO EAST! and not west (as a synonymous for not joining 'the mainstream' and 'the matrix' in general :)

- enjoy the fact that you are in many ways different than 'the others' and stand by it !

- "the last will be the first"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

- enjoying contact with insiders and positive motivated human beings in their local area and/or field of doing

- opening my own possibilities for people interested in unconventional, system-independent (but not always 'comfortable') ways of life

- give-and-take principle

Interests

to find it in the whole profile

Music, Movies, and Books

music:
Classic-Rock, Blues-Rock, Psychedelic-Rock, Progressive-Rock, Folk-Rock, Avantgarde-Rock, Jazz, New Age/Krautrock/Space-Rock, Alternative-Rock, EasternEuropean-Rock, Ost-Rock, Nepali-Rock,
Viking-Metal, Folk-Metal, Pagan, Ethnotrance,
Worldmusic, Raggae, Ska, Icelandic music
Singer-/Songwriter, Woodstock- and FlowerPower-era,
Soul, Funk, Groove, 70's Discomusic
New Wave, early-mid-90's-original-Trance / Progressive-house / Ambient / Drum'n'Bass

literature:
"1984";
Adventurer-literature, e.g. from the South Tyrolian alpinist Reinhold Messner and about Alaska, Western/Northern Canada and Siberia;
John Lennon

film/movie:
- "Into The Wild" (agreeing with the intentions, but free life comes not from alone, we need to care about the right surroundings/skills/equipment for that)
- Herzog-/Kinski-Movies of the 70's
- local movies of countries that I have visited / lived in
- music-videos of the music listed above
- internet-based documentary-movies of private, small or NGO-producers, that show often more truth than TV-productions of the establishment

living without the manipulating influence of TV, radio, press and the most "social" media since 18years now

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

warmhearted neighbours and new friends around my places, mentioned above and in cs in general.

Teach, Learn, Share

- exchanging language-skills
- life-experience is the best school
- studying is not limited to the time of an university-education - it is the whole life
- sharing the good things of life, but also the challenges of life

What I Can Share with Hosts

unconventional philosophy
timeless good music (not actual charts please!)
inspiring night-life
unforgettable outdoor-activities
relaxed time
home- and car-exchange

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Greece, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Palestine, Poland, Russian Federation, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Armenia, Australia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Georgia, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Montenegro, Nepal, Norway, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Vanuatu

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