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Overview

  • 2 references 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English
  • 54, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • strive for improved health and vitality and help others
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

to experience other cultures, especially tropical

PHILOSOPHY

I feel I am a grateful, caring, loving, generous, entertaining, adventurous, and fun person. I am a person of very high Integrity. Great Family Values, funny, likeable, honest, good person. Strive to live an Outstanding life with balance. Active and energetic, Love to be outside in nature, also enjoy being in an urban environment occasionally, I love to eat fruits, especially durian! People watching is so fun to me also.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I want to visit many people around the world and then offer my home to them all and many more when i return

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

only with current friends and connections around the world

Interests

Its very important for me to stay physically active, lean, healthy, fit, vital. Surfing is my main passion, and I enjoy running (trails mainly), lift weights, cylcling, snowboarding. I enjoy to contribute time and money to worthwhile causes like inspiring people to eat more Fruit and veggies. I Enjoy reading, learning, self-development, solving problems, traveling, eating Raw foods, camping. I absolutely LOVE life and feel so fortunate to wake up Early each day excited for another adventure!!

  • books
  • causes
  • environment
  • raw food
  • running
  • meditation
  • reading
  • traveling
  • minimalism
  • camping
  • surfing
  • snowboarding
  • sports
  • business

Music, Movies, and Books

"City of the Gods", funny movies with Jim Carrey, Independent films, "The Peaceful Warrior", "The Inconvenient Truth" (life changing). I think we should all go see "FAST FOOD NATION", And take our family and friends, documentaries, vegan and animal rights documentaries. "Earthlings".

Book, "The Long Walk" ( 8 prisoners of war escapes and walks 4000 miles to freedom!, sleep and food deprived days at a time)

Funky, Reggae, oldies, alternative, Dave Mathews, Garden State soundtrack, Red Hot, Jack Johnson...music with good meaningful lyrics, Reggaeton, electronic/dance...

Think and Grow Rich, Napoliean Hill
"As a Man Thinketh", James Allen
All Robert Kyosaki books.
Tony Robbins books.
Wayne Dyer books.
The 4 Hour Work WEEK.
Vegnews magazine.
Living Nutrition magazine
80/10/10 By Douglas Graham
80/10/10 by Douglas Graham
SHANTARAM
"A Diet for a New America" by John Robbins
Budhism, thich nhat hanh

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- I finished University.
-i completed a 10 day silent meditation in Bali
-I fasted with water only for 3 Days.
-I ate fruits only for several months (mostly durian)(still going strong!)
-I ran a 50mile trail race in 11hours
- I ran my own business for 10years.
- I Surfed Gland when it was way to big for me.
- I enjoyed watching kids in Bali being with their parents all the time even when working, family values strong.

Teach, Learn, Share

TEACH: healthful eating, surfing, running, strength training, surfing, fruit loving, meditation, vagabonding, minimalism.

want to learn new areas around the world, new sports, new books to read.

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