CURRENT MISSION

I am starting making travel documentaries and some spiritual videos and hoping that will help others to be more understanding and accepting. I hope that more people really travel, not just vacation, because this will bring culture and understanding to the world.

ABOUT ME

I have been traveling on a shoestring up until recently, hitchhiking, camping, CouchSurfing, sleeping anywhere people offer (almost), but I decided to upgrade my travel experience a bit and now I'm traveling on a bootstrap (despite having no boots and a bootstrap not being a metaphor for a little more money than "on a shoestring")
I will soon visit my 45th country and I'm quite happy I have not made the country count my goal, I've stayed in five of those counties for three months to over a year, another five for one month or more, and most for at least two weeks. I know most of the countries I've traveled pretty well, food and culture being among my top priorities.
I've had a wide range of experiences, and trying to become the person I need to be.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love the couch surfer meetings they are great for meeting people and essential for living new countries, I've hosted a couple people, and stayed once. All have been great experiences and I want to do more of both.

Interests

Photography, cooking, travel, learning other cultures, and languages.

• culture
• writing
• photography
• dining
• cooking
• traveling
• socializing
• swimming
• languages
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

No...
Favorite Quote:
When Ghandi was asked what he thought about Western civilization, he said, "I think it would be a good idea."

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Collected and cooked for myself and three others for a whole week for absolutely no money, veggies, chicken, fruit, and even fresh bread -no stealing or begging involved.
Went swimming inside the Arctic Circle, spent three days at the Dead Sea in Palestine! Climbed Teide volcano, swam across the widest waterfall in Europe -Venta Rumbla, Latvia, Saw the Parthenon, Malbork Castle, Niagra Falls, Yellowstone Park, Elafonisi, and the USS Salem.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm working on starting a new language learning system... and incomplete, but hopefully helpful.
I firmly believe that language is somthing that needs to be unlocked more than learned. I was recently listening to a tour guide as I was taking photos and I was understanding what he was telling the people and I didn't think about what language he was speaking, I was assuming it was a latin based language mostly from his accent. But somthing he said was interesting, and I started listening more carefully and realized he was speaking Manderin Chineese! I nearly immediately stopped understanding what he was saying ou of surprise and the stress of, well, the fact tha I know like two words in Manderine, but I relaxed and realized that it is a lesson for next time.

No Stress > Understanding
Stress = Bariers

What I Can Share with Hosts

Punmpkin pie, stories, recipies cheap travel advise, food, especially if you catch me when I'm feeling lazy. :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Czech Republic, Egypt, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Montenegro, Norway, Palestine, Philippines, Portugal, Russian Federation, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, Viet Nam, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Poland, Russian Federation, Spain, United States