CURRENT MISSION
Stay current

PHILOSOPHY
"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
Marcus Avrelius

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Regular people make up a nation - not old monuments and governments but people. I like meeting people.

As Eleanor Roosevelt once told us: Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. So let's discuss something....

Interests

XX century history.
Education in general (from Day Care to MBA).
Economics.
Cross-cultural communications.

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Across the Universe. Unforgiven. Payback. The Counselor. Donnie Darco. Open water. Jackie Brown.

TV: The Apprentice. How to make it in America. Louie CK. Fargo.

Music: lindy-hop, funk

Books: Good to Great by J. Collins. Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette. Generation П by V. Pelevin. Outliers by M. Gladwell.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Participated in a Round-the-World trip on a sailing boat Planida, 2008

Visited 12 countries in 12 months, 2008. Quit the regular job afterwards...

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Canada, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malta, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, North Korea, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Senegal, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Lithuania, Russian Federation, United States