CURRENT MISSION

Carpe the Diem

ABOUT ME

I don't like trying to summarize myself in a few sentences. But now I'll do just that:

I often wax lyrical.

I enjoy getting to know people.

I love a good story.

I love a good laugh.

I love a good adventure.

I love running.

I love dancing.

I love hiking.

I love sleeping outside.

I love hills and mountains.

I also love very flat prairies and plains.

I love languages.

I love Asia.

I love Africa.

I love travelling.

I love drinking.

I love eating.

I really love coffee.

I love learning,

and good heavens do I love Patrick Stewart!

PHILOSOPHY

Be excellent to each other.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

By trying to be a sweet dude.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

All of them great.

In fact I've been very lucky with CS hosts, not only have I met lots of very cool and thoughtful people, I've almost never had to send out more than 3 or 4 requests. So, if I contact you, I promise, I've read your profile and genuinely think I would like to hang out with you; you! yes, YOU!

Interests

The East, Chinese dictionaries, maps, places that are most different from Canadian suburbs, languages, adventures, music, food, people.

• dining
• running
• drinking
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• cartography
• languages
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Some of my favorite bands are: Radiohead, Broken Social Scene, Sufjan Stevens, Andrew Bird, LCD Soundsystem, Arcade Fire, Air, Daft Punk, Explosions in the Sky, The National, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, Neil Young, The Flaming Lips, Death From Above 1979, Fleet Foxes, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, Jens Lekman, Feist, Kanye West, The Unicorns, Fleetwood Mac and much of what I find on Pitchfork

Some of my favorite directors are the Coen brothers, Wes Anderson, P.T. Anderson, Darren Aronofsky, Quentin Tarintino, David Lynch, Steve McQueen, Christopher Nolan, Werner Herzog, Park Chan-wook, Kim Ki-duk, and Jia Zhangke

TV would be almost anything on HBO (The Wire! The Sopranos!), Atlanta, Rick and Morty, Star Trek, House of Cards.

Some favorite authors are Joseph Conrad, George Orwell, Oscar Wilde, Ernest Hemmingway, Murakami Haruki, David Foster Wallace, Albert Camus, John Steinbeck, Vladimir Nabokov, Cormac McCarthy, 鲁迅, and 余华。

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Here are a few fun highlights:

Stood where three countries meet while seeing the sea of a fourth.

Got highest possible score on my Nokia's Snake 2.

Enjoyed a brief career as a Chinese weatherman.

Found "patience" on an Azeri freighter crossing the Caspian Sea.

Found "endurance" on a 30 hour standing ticket between Chongqing and Beijing during the "Spring Rush" (春运).

Found "wonder" camping under the stars alone at Lake Sevan, Armenia.

Found "adventure" hitchhiking in Xinjiang, west China.

Found a wicked sunburn cycling the Tibetan Plateau.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can share some stories and a good laugh. I could teach you how to get to a pretty swell "secret" Japanese Whisky bar in Montreal or where to find a great Old Fashioned in Beijing.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Joy.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Guatemala, Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Netherlands, North Korea, Norway, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russian Federation, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, China, Viet Nam

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