CURRENT MISSION

completing a 1500 hike on the PCT (summer 2014)

ABOUT ME

loyal, liberal, impulsive, chaos, ideas, more ideas, likes a good chat on any subject, easy going, can listen very well, wear my heart upon my sleeve, I want to absorb all knowledge on the planet. always forget why I was angry after half an hour. Like: to go and have a walk. playing boardgames (Scrabble, Catan) with friends, mountains, sea, get out of town! Hiking :)

PHILOSOPHY

"a thing of beauty is a joy forever" (Keats)
"war is the total failure of the human mind" (Robert Fisk)
"if the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern" (William Blake)
"Girl you thought he was a man... But he was a muffin" Frank Zappa

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

want to meet, learn, share, host, surf, laugh, ...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted:
Lana & Mathias from Germany
Yuliya & her 2 friends from Belarus
Magdalena from Norway/Spain/Argentina/Canada :)
Wanjing from China/Germany
Isadora from Brazil
Elisabet and Christian from Sweden
Anu from Estonia
... and many more since then :)

Surfed:
- Paige, Galicia, España
- Heta, Turku, Suomi
- Kaisa, Uurainen, Suomi
- Hena, Oulu, Suomi
- Aurélie, Lille, France

Interests

nature, hiking, photography, stories!, your story, webdevelopment, making trips to nowhere, (aesthetic!) modern art, animation film, scouting, climbing over fences and ignoring "private" signs, politics, history, red wine, plants, insects, birds. Islands are a dangerous subject :)

• birds
• insects
• arts
• modern art
• photography
• beauty
• wine
• red wine
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• hiking
• rock climbing
• animation
• history
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: read constantly

Superb books:
- Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
- Travels to Africa by Mary Kingsley
- Summertime by Coetzee
- Down and Out in Paris and London by Orwell
- A Farewell to Arms by Hemmingway,
- Cannery Row by John Steinbeck,
- La Casa de los espiritus by Allende,
- Alfred & Emily by Dorris Lessing,
- On The Road by Jack Kerouac,
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer,
- Naama and Rena Potok,
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad,
- Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler
- De kleine blonde dood van Boudewijn Büch
- and the list goes on and on and on :D

Music: You can make me happy with Jazz (favourite is the The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 by Miles Davis with John McLaughlin, Keith Jarrett, ...), Blues, Bluesrock (Elliott Murphy), The Clash, The Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, Beirut, Neil Young, a little dosis of Dylan, Ray LaMontagne, The Levellers, Leonard Cohen, Amparanoia, gipsy music, cello, Ella Fitzgerald, Django, ...

movies: have no good visual memory so forget them very fast :) but i like world and art cinema. No commercial violence bullshit for me ;)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

*** the forests of Lapland ***
Guardia Civil who helped me hitch-hike
Hitch-hiked with a waste truck in France.
Hitch-hiked 400km at night in a snowstorm in Iceland, without a map. The destination was a remote Valley in the North.
Cycled from Göteborg to Stockholm in 10 days / 800km.

Hiked through Oregon and Washington state on the Pacific Crest Trail, 700km of wilderness and pure nature.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: Knows about 150 wild plants, 50 birds and dozens of butterflies and insects by name.
Can help you make a good website, travel Slow, reading the landscape on a map.
Learn: I would love to talk more in French or Spannish.

Countries I’ve Visited

Aruba, Croatia, Eritrea, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, India, Italy, Kenya, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Ethiopia

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