ABOUT ME

Easily bored, but constantly curious, which balances out most of the time

PHILOSOPHY

Learn, help, have a good time, don't hurt anyone.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Uniformly positive...Running round a Malaysian villa garden at 2am, in my underpants, calling for a cat named Ivy. That was my first experience. Watching lipsynching girlband, drinking the owner's whisky, in a club in Kuching. Durian aversion therapy in Penang. Phoverdosing up and down Vietnam. Scooter tuition on Lombok. Lady Di posing in Yogyakarta..... I've met so, so many cool people through CS, it's ridiculous...

Interests

Travel, meeting people, learning language, sport, doing stuff, seeing stuff

• dogs
• wildlife
• drinking
• traveling
• socializing
• scuba diving
• skiing
• sports
• swimming
• languages
• beaches
• foodie
• español

Music, Movies, and Books

Books -
1984
Yes Man
any Hitchens
Millions of others

Films -
24 Hour Party People, Oldboy, Man On Wire, Eternal Sunshine..., Heartbeat Detector, Come and See, Touching the Void, Kingpin, Anchorman
Millions of others

Music -
Flaming Lips, Underworld, High Contrast, Elliott Smith, Pryda, The Cribs, Mars Volta, Anjunadeep, Lenzman, and on and on and on and on...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Riding the Klein Matterhorn cable car in Switzerland, then skiing back down into Zermatt springs to mind...

Bobsleigh in France...

Going for a morning swim on a beautiful white sand beach in Western Australia watched by a mob of kangeroos...

Unscheduled meeting with a family of orangutans, Sarawak, Malaysia...

Scuba diving in Nha Trang...

Komodo dragon-dodging on Komodo / Rinca...

INSANE DRIVING SURVIVAL on Java...

Muay Thai training in Thailand, followed by dental work in Thailand :-)

Meeting sponsored child and her family and community in Vietnam, 2015...

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Australia, Austria, Cambodia, Colombia, Croatia, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom, Viet Nam

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