CURRENT MISSION

One world, one race... the Human race

ABOUT ME

I love to travel.

PHILOSOPHY

One world, one race.. the Human race.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've taken a break from CS.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Tips & Resources from the CS Wiki

CouchSurfing Guide
Safety for Surfers
How to be a Good Guest
Safety for Hosts
How to be a Good Host

I've hosted the people below. See the reviews they've left me.

the first (#) is number of nights hosted.
the second, if any, (#) is the number of surfers hosted at same time.

F-Dominika Koder (2)
M-Andreas Bertge (1)
F-April Paxton (1)
F-Britni Moore (1)
F-Tavia (3)
F-Anastacia Drake (2) (2)
M-Travis Barlow (2)
F-Marie-Anne Serve (2) (2)
F-Sheralyn Luv (2)
M-Phil Abenojar (2)
F-Julia Merlingen (5)
M-Artur Martins (3)
F-Johanna Kuch (2)
M-Blaz Jemc (1)
F-Maria Peon Espina (2)
F-Julie Geoffroy (7)
F-Annett Metzenthin (2) (2)
F-Lio Cools (4) (2)
F-Marcela Musgrove Chavez (2)
M-Kenneth Li (2)
F-Lenka Hanzelova (3)
M-Duncan Clarkson (3)
M-Anders Hedberg Magnusson (3)

For references I write, see below:

"COUCHSURF REFERENCE": hosted.
"HOST REFERENCE": couchsurfed.
"SOCIAL REFERENCE": met them socially.
"FRIEND REFERENCE": friends.

Interests

photography, travel, discovery, road trips, tennis, Guinness, reading. irish pubs too. i should mention that it has to be GOOD Guinness.

• dogs
• books
• photography
• drinking
• pub crawls
• reading
• traveling
• boxing
• rock climbing
• tennis
• history
• mathematics
• tourism
• road trips
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite TV show? The Amazing Race.

Movies? Before Sunset or any movie by Wim Wenders
Music? Saint Etienne, Kraftwerk, etc.
Authors? Nick Hornby, Tom Perotta, George Orwell.

Now reading
-The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific by Paul Theroux

Want these books? Contact me
-Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
-Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? by Thomas Kohnstamm
-The Alienist by Caleb Carr

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

visited ireland.

Egypt Part I
5:30am: Dogs barking, a daily territorial fight, my ears (and my sleep) none the better for it.

5:45am: The fives-times-a-day prayer, blasted through speakers from the mosque, of which I am a stone throw away. I look for one under my bed, but none is to be found.

8:00am: My eyes open, my back ache, what am I to do? a book you say? no, it is quiet now, time for some sleep.

10:00am: Hunger strikes, up on my feet I go, a look through the window, two dogs sleeping, I let out a bark, but to no avail. alas

12:00pm: Time for a walk, time for a stroll, time to take a taxi to town, price fiercely negotiated. Five EP (egyptian pounds) is the stake, vital to me, vital to him. I win. One USD in my pockets.

1:00pm: A street, traffic at its worse, my destination is the other side, a step, so many more are needed, exhaust covers me, horns blaring, what a beautiful Cairo symphony!

2:00pm: So much history, this egyptian antiquities, the best of egypt's museum.

3:00pm: A metro ride later, to giza and the pyramids, yet still so far, which bus will lead me there? 25 piastres later, 5 cents to you all, an idea comes to mind, sardines in a metal box, is that hunger? ahh no, it is me, tightly squeezed, in this metal bus.

3:55pm: 25 EP for student entry to giza pyramids, sorry sir, it is now closed, 4pm is the time, my shoulders up in a shrug, face saddened, he lets me in. Like nothing else, my eyes lay upon the pyramids, a chill down my spine, my mind in overdrive for some historical perspective, yet awe is the only answer.

6:00pm: The ride back home, so far away, a foreigner in a foreign land, people stare, kids say hello, I smile back, they shy away, oh yes, the bus again, this time 50 piastres, a big 10 cents, if math is a problem to you, images of sardines pop back into my mind, where is my exit?

7:00pm: Time for fierce negotiating again, the cabs plentiful, the price should be nice, three dollars later, or an hour if you like, back to my dad's, time to eat.

12:00am: The dogs bark again, am I to awake?

Egypt Part II
with that said, imagine climbing a mountain at midnight with only your cell phone light to guide you.. never mind that the cell phone's batteries are dying.. finally, after four hours of a bone-chilling trek, you drink some whiskey to warm you up while waiting for the sun to rise.. you're surrounded by 200-300+ travelers just like you who have made the trek up on christmas morning, yet you feel like you're by yourself, alone with your thoughts, as if you're the first and last one to see this beautiful sun ascending from behind the distant mountains.. only you realize that moses, some thousand years before, had made that same journey on this little, remote mountain in the sinai peninsula.. a mountain called mount sinai. give me more whiskey.

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, United States

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