CURRENT MISSION

To enjoy life with my brand new baby daughter

ABOUT ME

I like to think that I am reasonably easy going and my mother says I am actually quite friendly. I have a love for Asia, with a big appetite for Tibetan buddhist art and Japanese samurai movies. But I like beer too.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have done most of my longer travels years before the conception of couch surfing. Still, I have met many a happy and gentle person along the way who opended up his or her door to me. If this site would have existed back then, it would have made travelling a lot easier. So hail to the inventor of couchsurfing!
I've just hosted my first guests, and I haven't been robbed yet. And I have done a lot of couchsurfing during my previous Japan trip, and I haven't robbed any of them either, so I guess it works!

兴趣

I am a great fan of traditional Japanese martial arts, notably Katori Shinto-ryu kenjutsu. It keeps me off the street, but also interferes with my longtime plans to write the Mother of All Himalayan Travelogues, so I might have to lay down my sword one of these days after all.

• education
• traveling
• music
• martial arts
• buddhism
• motorcycling
• kobudo
• buddhist art

音乐、电影和书籍

I loved Hesse's 'Knulp', 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', Hilton's 'Lost Horizon' and Harvey's 'A Journey in Ladakh' and books on buddhas or on historical Japanese swordschools in general. I divoured Hopkirk's books on Central Asia explorers, and my bookcase is full of old Asian travalogues.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

I spent two days hitchhiking along route 66 underneath a huge sign saying: "don't take any hitchhikers, they might be escaped convicts!" and got a ride with a beautiful Mexican woman.

我游览过的国家

Cambodia, China, India, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russian Federation, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey, United States, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam

我居住过的国家

Japan, Netherlands