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This is for when I'm requesting hosts

i'm Lou, originally from England but been living in Bangkok for the past 5 years or so

BKK is dope and i love living there but city fatigue is real therefore whenever the opportunity arises i love hopping around SEA for a quick lifestyle change. one day i'd like to also go back to Europe and travel around or even go around the Americas but it's kinda far you know?

a lot of the times i travel alone which can be fun but also boring at the same time, it's a fine line. i've been getting into hitchhiking and volunteering a lot more recently, especially last year i hitchhiked from tokyo to kyushu and then did a loop around from kitakyushu to fukuoka. i also hitchhiked a loop around the whole of taiwan. and while in japan and south korea i volunteered at a hostel and kind of international meet up group as an organiser. nowadays i'm pretty good at socialising with all types of people, which is ironic cause i used to be very introverted when i was in univeristy...

i've stayed in hotels and hostels tons of times before, and couchsurfing has always been more enjoyable, even just staying in peoples houses who picked me up while hitchhiking have been way more amazing experiences than staying in some hostel. hell, i think i'd rather sleep in a tent in a park nowadays than stay at a hotel haha

Interests

• thrifting
• live music
• punk music
• rock music
• hip-hop music
• hiking
• camping
• hitchhiking
• volunteering
• museums
• psychedelics
• 420
• raving
• art exhibitions

Music, Movies, and Books

big fan of both music and movies, not so much books

as for music, a lot of rock, punk, hiphop
movie directors i'm fond of include linklater, scorsese, kubrick, coens, scott, tarantino. a lot of old and gritty stuff, but also coming of age stuff like dazed and confused and boyhood

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate

What I Can Share with Hosts

goofy hitchhiking and volunteering stories, english culture (kinda), stuff about living and working in thailand for 5 years etc.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Egypt, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mauritius, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Japan, South Korea, Thailand