Hey there!

I am Dustin and live in Germany near the city of Mainz.
2022 I quit my job to travel full time, trying to see as many countries as possible and meet new people and cultures.
At the moment I am hitchhiking from Germany through Eastern and Southern Europe towards Middle East.

I think I'm pretty easy going and always like to meet new people. I love music and play the guitar myself. Apart from that I take thousands of pictures while travelling.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

CS is not only about to find a place to sleep.
It is more about meeting the locals and learn about there culture and share experiences.

Interests

I like to play the guitar and visit live concerts or night clubs.

• photography
• running
• reading
• music
• guitar
• travelling

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
I hear almost everything except Free-Jazz and Techno. But I prefer Rock music.

Books:
I prefer non-fiction and classics.
Here are some examples:
Arthur Conan Doyle: Complete Sherlock Holmes
Bill Berkeley: The graves are not yet full
Charles MacKay: Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds
Chinua Achebe: Things fall apart
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Everett: Don’t sleep, there are snakes
Dorfmann, Mattelart: How to read donald duck.
Dylan Thomas: Under Milk Wood
Edgar Allen Poe: Arthur Gordon Pym
Edwin Abbott Abbott: Flatland
George Herriman: Krazy Kat Pilgrims on the road to nowhere
Jared Diamond: Guns, germs and steel
Jason K. Stearns: Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex
Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy
Leo Tolstoi: Anna Karenina
Lewis Caroll: Alice in Wonderland
Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis
Mark Owens, Delia Owens: Cry of the Kalahari
Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn
Martin Meredith: The Fate of Africa
Noam Chomsky: Profit over People
Robert Louis Stevenson: Jekyll and Hyde
Robert Schneider: Schlafes Bruder
Ror Wolf: Zwei oder drei Jahre später
Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Book
Shakespeare: Macbeth
Sophokles: Antigone
Stanislaw Lem: Solaris
Tsunetomo Yamamoto: Hagakure
William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying

Here are some of my favourite Korean Movies:
-Old Boy (an epic, massively disturbing Park Chan-Wook film (and part of a complex revenge trilogy) sadly lousy copied by Hollywood. Starring natural force Choi Min-sik);
-Memories of Murder (classic murder mysteries in a Korean style - with an unbelievably chilling ending);
-Quick (sensational, fast-paced teenage action comedy that shows how far Korean cinema is ahead of the rest);
-I'm a Cyborg, but that's ok (RomCom by Park Chan-wook, so not what you'd expect from the genre; the film is set in a psychiatric hospital and the main character tries to survive on battery power );
-Man from Nowhere (despite the seriousness of the subject often light-footed action film, in which the most brutal fight scenes alternate with amazingly silly humor. Not for the faint-hearted! In the showdown, John Woo's “A Better Tomorrow II” is quoted with a wink);
-The Good, the Bad, the Weird (Kim Jee-woon's homage to Spaghetti Western, absolutely top-class cast and a perfect introduction to the peculiarities and absurdities of Korean cinema. The same director also has the worth seeing "Iliang: the Wolf Brigade", " The Age of Shadows” and the cruel, terrifying, almost unbearable “I saw the devil” – the latter again with Choi Min-sik);
-Ashfall (typical disaster blockbuster, with a well-known starting position, but full of surprising twists, sensational actors down to the smallest supporting roles and flawless camera. How do they do it?);
-The Divine Move (an action film about Go. Yes, the board game. Still bloodthirsty, tricky and exciting. The second part is also somewhat worth seeing, but it's hard to get here);
-Joint Security Area (An early film by Park Chan-wook that explains a lot about the two Koreas and their uncomfortable juxtaposition at the 38th parallel). Have fun! (And please NEVER watch the dubbed version, only original subtitles - this is the only way for the films to unfold their full power)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

High altitude training camp in Kenya.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Some travel stories and my sense of humor.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Maldives, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, Oman, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany