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Overview

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  • Fluent in English; learning Japanese, Thai
  • 60, Male
  • Member since 2018
  • Retired
  • Engineering Degree
  • No hometown listed
  • Profile 75% complete

About Me

I love traveling to Asia. I also like to be home and do things such as watch movies, listen to music, read books and work on cars.
I also enjoy helping people, especially people from overseas as I have lived/worked in hostels and have lived overseas.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I have heard about couchsurfing and wish to do that as a guest when I travel overseas. This would give me a chance to meet local people and to experience the unique things different cultures have to offer that I'd never get a chance to see if I stayed in other forms of accommodation.
With this in mind I think it could be fun to be a couchsurfing host also so that I can be a better guest when the time comes.
I think it would be awesome to get to know a particular place through people who actually live there already, like my own local guide... :)

Interests

  • dancing
  • meditation
  • gardening
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • karaoke
  • cinema
  • horse riding
  • computers
  • restaurants
  • motorbikes
  • scuba diving/snorkeling
  • building cars
  • theatre acting/singing/dancing
  • the secret/abraham-hicks/law of attraction

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: The Rolling Stones. Mostly top 40. Too many to mention...
My favorite movies: Johnny Depp
Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit
Studio Ghibli/Hayao Miyazake
The Martian
My favorite books: Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's series
Enid Blyton

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I lived in Thailand for 4 years

Teach, Learn, Share

I love teaching English
I can give good travel advice for Australia, the do's & don'ts and avoiding rip-offs...
Car repairs and car advice as travelers often are driving very old cars which usually have lots of problems
Sight-seeing with guests: I would love to spend time with my guests and show them around and do things together

What I Can Share with Hosts

Helping out
Repairs: Cars or other things. I'm very technically-minded...
I'm good with kids
Learning new things and experiences that they can share with me

Countries I’ve Visited

Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Papua New Guinea, Thailand

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