CURRENT MISSION

I love meeting new people and seeing new areas off the normal tourist track, I spent 2013- 2016 and 2017-2019 backpacking around the world seeing 62 countries. Now I am back in the states I am looking to explore more of my home country and plan to try and take week or two trips to new area I havn't been to yet.

ABOUT ME

I am very straight forward and am a little old fashion in that someones word can mean more to me than a written contract; and that if I as I am going to do it then I do everything I can do have it done before or on time. I am great listener and love to hear stories I think your elders have lived through more than we give them credit for and I always like hearing peoples stories of what things used to be like.

PHILOSOPHY

Never stop growing, everyone has something they can teach you
Live by your own bucket list.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have meet some great hosts while I was in AU, NZ and Singapore and hope to meet more around the world and have my couch open once I stop traveling

兴趣

What do I love, I love white water rafting and some day I hope to be able to raft all over the world. Besides that I love the outdoors hiking, camping, boating, off roading, staring at the starts on a clear night and when on vacation and traveling I am up to try just about anything once. I have been skydiving in Southern California twice, swimming with the sharks in Hawaii, canopy riding in the treetops in Mexico, been on an eight day white water rafting trip 280 miles down the grand canyon and white water rafting in Alaska.
I love watching most sports but would rather be playing them than on the sidelines.
I am on a almost 2 year trip so far I am had tons of fun and here are some things I have gotten to do.

Things I have done in 2013
Got to travel Jan to Dec and traveled to Australia, Bali, Lombok, 3 of the Gili Islands, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, and New Zealand

Australia
Worked in the outback at a lumber yard
Mustered Cattle in the outback
Flew in a helicopter
Found Dinosaur bones at an archeological dig site
Lived on the Great Barrier Reef for 5 days
Feel in love with Byron Bay
Did couchsurfing
Showed up with no plan
Woke up in the Outback and got to see 3-6 shooting stars each morning, to start my day
Went white water rafting on the Tully in the misty mountains

Bali
Saw a live cock fight
Was blessed by a medicine man/ priest
Saw hills of endless rice fields
Went white water rafting making it 43% of the world’s continents I have rafted on
Watched a mass cremation ceremony in the monkey forest (only happens once every 5 years)

Gili Air
Found my favorite spot in the world sitting on a bamboo lounge and blue cushions
Held a ticket to paradise and used it

Thailand
Ate breakfast with monks at a temple and was invited by the abbot
Got to stand in the winner’s circle at a horse race with a horse I bet on
Was on Thai Tv channel 7
Watched a live muay Thai fight
Went to a festival / carnival
Floated on my back at night in natural hot springs in the mountains of northern Thailand and
stargazed
New Zealand
Found amber on the beach
Climbed to the top of a mountain
Picked up hitch hikers
When white water rafting on a sacred river where a chief is buried behind a 5 meter waterfall
Went to a town that has my name and they loved it so much they said it twice

Singapore
Rain through the Botanical gardens barefoot in the pouring rain

Malaysia
Found my favorite sushi restaurant in the world (so far)
Saw hills of endless rice fields

Things I have done in 2014
Got to travel from Jan til Oct and traveled to Thailand, Cambodia, Greece
China
I watched the sun rise from the Great Wall of China
Ate dumplings in China
Thailand
I have caught a tiger by it’s toe
Was riding a motorbike and had to move to the side of the road to let an elephant pass
Cambodia
Stood at the top of a temple that was built in the early 12th century
Walked across human remains
Took a photo with a Thailand/ Cambodia movie star
I got a massage from a blind person at an all blind massage spa
Learned to appreciate a cold shower
Qatar
Have been to a silent airport
Watched the sunrise from Doha
Greece
Watched the sunset over Athens
Explored the Parthenon and temples
Walked with protesters in Athens
Spent Easter in a small village up in the mountains with all the bells
Slept in a 12 century or older bishops house attached to the church
Saw valleys of olive groves in the mountains of southern Greece
Swung on a swing overlooking the Messianic Bay (part of the Mediterranean Sea)
Got 3 balloons and handed them out to 3 random children while walking in Athens
Saw Mt. Olympus

France
Took a photo with the Mona Lisa
Walked the Catacombs underneath Paris

Belgium
Sniffed Chocolate
Took a boat ride in the canals of Bruges

Holland
Read passages from the original Anne Frank’s diary

Germany
Got paid to make bubbles
Was in two places at once (half in West Berlin and half in East Berlin)
Walked through the Iron curtain

Czech Republic
Saw fields and fields of bright yellow canola flowers

Austria
Climbed Mt. Hocstaufen 1750m (5741 ft 541⁄64in) in the Alps
Went to an Opera
Rode on a bicycle 25km through small towns and endless vineyards near Kreams
Got swept away by the Danube

Italy
Took a gondola through the Grand Canal
I used the saying “When in Rome” while I was in Rome
I saw where Julius Creaser was stabbed
Vatican City-
Saw the Pope give a live speech at the Vatican
Been to the smallest country in the world
Scotland
Took a dip in the fairy pools on Skye
Walked on a peninsula cliff where the dirt trail was only as wide as my foot
Climbed a hill and sat atop it reading a book while looking out over the ocean and Scottish isles
Had a picnic in the Ferrie Glen on Skye
Watched the wind create ripples in a sea of grass
Took a photo with Dolly
Saw the grave of a dog that could vote before women
Ate fudge on Arthur’s Seat

Northern Ireland
Meet guys from the night watch
It rained on my parade, literally
Sat like a giant on the causeway
Ventured into the depths of the Fermanagh earth to the Marble arch caves
Saw an Irish rainbow over a pasture of sheep
Attended a yarn night at a barn in Cushendall
Was on BBC Ireland Tv on “The Gatherin”

• dogs
• books
• photography
• festivals
• breakfast
• chocolate
• picnic
• walking
• gardening
• boating
• flowers
• reading
• tv
• traveling
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• camping
• skydiving
• sports
• horse racing
• swimming
• medicine
• adventure travel
• beaches
• mountains
• netflix

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

I have been skydiving in Southern California twice, swimming with the sharks in Hawaii, canopy riding in the treetops in Mexico, been on an eight day white water rafting trip 280 miles down the grand canyon and white water rafting in Alaska. Been dog fighting in air planes over the Pacific ocean, jumped off the top of the Stratosphere casino in Las Vegas, traveled to 62 countries. And more between i am sure i am missing

我游览过的国家

Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Cayman Islands, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam, Wales

我居住过的国家

Australia, United States

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