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Overview

  • 8 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French, Spanish
  • 67, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • Web page designer PHP MySQL VB6 Html
  • University - Business major
  • From Timaru New Zealand
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

If a life is 20,000 days may they be 20,000 different and interesting days

PHILOSOPHY

Drifted a bit thru university and excelled at party 101. Got serious at 28 and did the career thing till 40 when I semi retired to live a more balanced life. Travel back packer style and have been blown away by the people I have met and the places I have seen. We live on one beautiful planet.

Thru traveling it seems there is an inverse relationship between happiness and the pursuit of material things. The happiest people I have ever met lived in mud brick homes in small communities near friends and family living a simple life.

Interests

Love travel and nature photography. Into relaxed clean music. DVDs, Like to get out to a river or lake to swim , fish or just enjoy.

Like gardening, have planted many fruit trees and love eating fruit from the tree - so tasty and much better than the supermarket option.

Recently been reading a lot of geo- political stuff and financial news. Unfortunately it seems we are in a moment in history that will be written about and studied for many years to come.

  • fish
  • photography
  • partying
  • gardening
  • news
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • fishing
  • snorkeling
  • swimming
  • history

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Snorkeling among coral and colorful fish in Dahab Egypt. Amazing water clarity. Game fishing off Fiji.

4 month overland thru South America Living the local lifestyle. Matupitchu, Inner tubing down the headwaters of the Amazon, Cruising thru the Chilean Fiords and the Alaskan inner passage. The glaciers of Argentina.

Summer in Buenos Aires.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Cook Islands, Ecuador, Egypt, Fiji, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Jordan, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, Peru, Samoa, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

New Zealand, United States

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