CURRENT MISSION

Drink good coffee each and every morning.

ABOUT ME

Pleasantly pessimistic, opinionated, suspiciously aloof, blunt and a bit aggressive all at once. I'm really a gem though.

I love travelling and seeing what lies around each corner, mostly without wanting to run away. I try to be vegetarian as much as I can, but get hooked in by lamb kebabs. Other than that, I can't say much now. Meet me and be in awe ...

PHILOSOPHY

Well, don't give me that blank look. Just ask!

Stubbornness: a blessing and a curse.

"The world owes you nothing. It was here first." Mark Twain

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have gone on couch surfing missions with others and it has mostly been okay.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

A little, with other people, but not through my own profile. I have already hosted a couple travellers and look to be hosted even more in the future.

Interests

Photography, traveling, maps, maps, maps, maps

Learning new languages, meeting interesting people, finding out of the way things that most people wouldn't.

Being accidentally quirky.

• birds
• photography
• coffee
• vegetarian
• running
• drinking
• traveling
• surfing
• cartography
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Anything with a great beat.

Books? Always like Anna Karenina.

Movies? The movie, "Like Father, Like Son," is coming out soon. Japanese poignancy at its best.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I held an eagle in Mongolia in addition to see a crater in the middle of nowhere. Jerusalem is amazing as well as Kouyasan, Japan. Learning Japanese has been one of the more amazing skills I have picked up ... and one which I'll never perfect.

Teach, Learn, Share

The capital of Lithuania is Vilnius, but it is not a coastal city like Riga or Tallinn.

Japanese pronunciation is very easy. Most everything else is not.

George W. Bush was originally from Connecticut, not
Texas.

Kiwis are flightless birds and fruit with vitamin C. The human variety are also some of the sweetest around too.

There is actually a nonstop flight from New York to Singapore on Singapore airlines -- 18+ hrs (which is soon or has soon ended...)

Conversate is not a word, but converse is, and is also the name of the baddest shoes around.

Cleopatra was killed by two three letter words. The asp was the poisonous snake and the ass was Marc Antony.

One of my favorite Facebook status updates that I have seen: "I have realized that sex is not the answer. SEX is the question and YES, F--- YES, YES, OH G-D, YES is the answer!" The unfriend button comes in handy at times...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, Russian Federation, South Korea, United States

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