Currently in Sao Paulo 🇧🇷👋

Our names are John and Lilia

We are a young family from Russia.
We will have our first daughter in May 2026👶💕

My nickname is John. (Russian name is Evgenii) I'm originally from Russia, but for the last 9 years, I spent almost all my time traveling, working, and living abroad.

I'm working online as an English teacher, and my wife Liliya is a professional musician and blogger.

We are simple travelers; we don't aspire to luxury hotels. An apartment in any condition or a roof over our heads will make us feel safe.

We love hiking and camping, bicycle travel and hitchhiking, climbing roofs and taking photos of sunsets, sunrises, nature, and cities, and playing chess. 🚴🏕️🏞️👍🌇🌄

We don't eat meat, we follow a healthy lifestyle, and we really like talking in person in REAL life.

Our telegram blog🌸:
t.me/liliya_zhizni

To connect with me better to use
instagram: @feel_like_me_
Telegram : @feel_like_me1
Vk.com/feel_like_me

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love to travel and meet new people.

Interests

Photography is my passion, I can climb a huge mountain just for a good photo 😁

Urban exploration and histories of abandoned places across the Europe and other counties.

The best adventure game of my life is a Hitchhiking, because when I stay on the road, I don't know, what will be after 5 minutes, who will stop for me, and who's line of life will cross with mine...

Average I can hitchhike 5000-10000 km per year, looking for a new roads.

Maximum one car took me for 3500 km, (6 days to speak!)

And another car took me less distance, but 35 DAYS of travel together across the Turkey.

Have dream to become a paragliding pilot 🪂

• photography
• vegetarian
• drones
• hiking
• backpacking
• paragliding
• urban exploration
• bicycle
• urbex
• roofs
• climbing mountains
• offline life

Music, Movies, and Books

Mostly Arthouse movies.
Mostly piano, guitar, folk or ethnic music.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hitchhiking travel crossing all EUROASIA continent (west-east) from Morocco to Indonesia in 2017 (~30 000km) 👍

Climbed 355 mt abandoned TV-tower in Russia 🤯

Climbed 100 different buildings in China in one year.

Highest building, that I climbed is #17 in a top of the world.

The most interesting hikes of my life (you can skip):

2024: 🇮🇩 Indonesia, SOLO hikes to 7 volcanoes:
Rinjani 3700, 45 km, 3 days.
Raung 3300, 30 km, 2 days.
Agung 3000, Ijen 2300, Batukaru 2300, Abang 2150, Chatur 2100.

2023: 🇹🇯 Tajikistan, Fann Mountains, 4850m, 4 passes, 70 km, 8 days.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan, Uchitel Peak, 4500 m, 15 km, 3 days.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan, Ala-Kol Glacier. 4000 m, 55 km, 4 days.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan, Big Almaty Peak, 3600 m, 25 km, 2 days.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan, Khoja Gur-Gur Ota, 3700 m, 15 km, 3 days.

2022: 🇬🇪 Georgia, Gul Peak, Svaneti, 3300 m. 20 km, 2 days.
🇬🇪 Georgia, Chaukhi pass, Kazbegi, 3300 m, 20 km, 2 days.
For 2 months I worked as a tour guide on electric bicycles in the mountains of Adjara, Georgia. 🚴🇬🇪
2021: 🇹🇷 Turkey, Lycian Way. 300+ km.
2019: 🇳🇵 Nepal, Annapurna Trek, 5416 m, 180 km.
2018: 🇮🇩 Indonesia, Volcanoes:
Merapi 2900, Merbabu 3150, Arjuno 3150, Lawu 3250, Ijen 2300.
2016: 🇷🇺 Worked as an assistant in a geodetic team, carried equipment to Dinnik Peak in Arkhyz, 3150 m.

Teach, Learn, Share

Have 2 years experience of work in China, South Korea and India. Maybe I can help you to Find work there.

I can share secret knowledge about:
✈️💲How to find promo flight tickets,
🌇🔓How to visit roofs (already done more than 100 times),
📸 How to improve photo quality of android phone. My ig: @feel_like_me_
🏕️🏞️ How to climb mountains and volcanoes alone. Light equipment.
👍🚙 How to start hitchhiking. Interesting and safely.
🏚️ Abandoned places and urban exploration.
🕺Russian language

What I Can Share with Hosts

🪛📲 Try to Fix all broken electronics,
(notebooks, laptops, desktop pc)

Cook vegetarian food

Many stories or just keep silence 🙏

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Croatia, France, Georgia, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macao, Malaysia, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Palestine, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Russian Federation, South Korea