CURRENT MISSION

Stay immature, save the world

ABOUT ME

We are a couple who like to travel, enjoy the natural outdoors.

We were born in New Zealand and left in 1971 for a working holiday that lasted 7 years: working in Canada, backpacking through Central/South America then working in Africa and backpacking through Africa to Europe, spent a year in Europe sleeping/freecamping, hitchhiked through Scandiavia. Took the Trans-Siberia through communist Russia which got us to Japan which we toured on a borrowed motorbike and then travelled through SE Asia back to NZ. This was before guidebooks.

We returned to Canada to settle & work, and have continued seeing new places, eg recently we spent 4 months in Patagonia, hiking, camping, a couple of years before to SE Asia, last year Iceland for 6 weeks, this year NZ, Australia.

We like meeting new people who share our love of outdoors & travel. We are active in preserving our environment. We are quite quiet,like to read, watch sport - Warrick loves watching soccer/football, we like photography, writing, old European cars.
Otherwise we hike, kayak, snowshoe, cycle & trailbuild.

PHILOSOPHY

Every action has a reaction. Appreciate what we have and preserve it for future life.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We have used the CS site and it is great, but we would like to meet travellers - backpackers and cyclists as we would like to help them see as much as possible.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

With our extensive budget-travelling with a backpack and camping/hitchiking, bus travel we have met some very kind and generous hosts, all experience has been positive

Interests

We like meeting new people who share our love of outdoors & travel. We are active in preserving our environment. We are quite quiet,like to read, watch sport - Warrick loves watching soccer/football, we like photography, writing, old European cars.
Otherwise we hike, kayak, snowshoe, cycle & trailbuild
We have been active in environmental issues for a long time. Our latest mission is to save a local old growth forest (trees up to 1000 yrs old)from logging & development See:http://www2.canada.com/cowichanvalleycitizen/news/story.html?id=9ac33a0b-fa50-4a8a-bec2-0c0ab980e89e The forest is the Koksilah River Ancient Forest.Plus we sit on parks committees.

• writing
• photography
• environment
• news
• traveling
• cars
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• backpacking
• kayaking
• camping
• snowshoeing
• sports
• soccer
• parks

Music, Movies, and Books

Love adventure travel books, such as traveller/author Colin Angus

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Been around the world by public transport and hiking in 5 years.

Teach, Learn, Share

There is something to learn from anyone

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malaysia, Mexico, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sudan, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, New Zealand, South Africa