In October last year, just after graduating from high school, I followed my dream and hitchhiked from home without a single cent in my pocket. My goal: To travel once around the world - without any start-up capital or using a plane.🗺️

After three months I reached Spain and took with the beginning of the new year a ferry to Africa, not knowing what would expect me. Since then, I travelled more than 15.000km following the west coast of the African continent, hoping to reach Cape Town one day :)

Instagram: instgram.com/felixx.abl
Website & Blog: felix-abel.de

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love the idea of getting connected with locals, so you don’t have to travel as a tourist but get a real experience of the culture of a country. For me, this is one of the things that separates a traveler from a tourist.

Interests

• photography
• traveling
• hiking
• scuba diving
• swimming
• teaching
• hitchhiking
• freediving
• wild camping
• webdesign
• lifeguard

Music, Movies, and Books

📚Books:
- Around the World with 50 bucks🗺️
- Atomic Habits📋
- The Alchemist💭
- How to win friends & influence people🤝🏼
- The 4 hour work week🏝️

🎬Movies:
- everything you can find on Netflix🍿
- Oppenheimer💥

🎶Music:
- I played drums for 10 years🥁
- I listen a lot to modern pop music🎧

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

✔️ hiked across the Dolomites in sneakers🏔️👟
✔️ threw a huge pool party for my whole class🍹💦
✔️ went scuba diving in the red sea🤿🦈
✔️ got payed as a lifeguard just for looking around🛟👀
✔️ rode on top of the iron ore train trough the Sahara🚂
✔️ hitchhiked more than 90 cars👍🏼🚗

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you a lot about things I learned in school but that I‘ll never need In life. For example quantum physics, complex mathematics or something about Schrödingers cat.🐈⚰️

I want to learn as much new things as possible on my trip, so I would love to learn everything you can teach me :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

A lot of stories about my travels :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Denmark, Egypt, France, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Mauritania, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Senegal, Spain, Switzerland, Togo, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany