CURRENT MISSION

To be one the road. Always.

ABOUT ME

Travel is my biggest passion. In 2009 I decided to try something different than regular holidays, so I hitch-hiked along the Norway coast. That was the beginning - since that moment I spend more time on the road than in my home. Travelling, volunteering, hitch-hiking, tramping and hiking in mountains around the world. In 2014 I suspended my academic course to travel around Middle East (Iran), South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia) and Balkans.

PHILOSOPHY

Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
~Hunter S. Thompson

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I fount it out during my trip to the US. I was on a budget, started hitch-hiking and decided to join CS to meet people like me.

Interests

My two biggest passions are travelling and science (international relations, geopolitics, international law etc.). I have visited many European countries and now I am heading more and more distant places around the world to know other cultures, religions and people. You can read about my experiences on my blog www.choosetravel.pl.

• books
• literature
• human rights
• traveling
• blogging
• hiking
• camping
• geography
• geopolitics
• history
• journalism
• law
• hitchhiking
• volunteering
• mountains
• artificial intelligence

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Taxi Driver, American Beauty, No Country for Old Men, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Gruz 200, Waste Land, Three Colours Trilogy, Armadillo, Restrepo

Books: On the Road, The Catcher in the Rye, Walden, 1984, Big Sur, Into the Wild, The Nikopol Trilogy, Fun Home, Carnet de Voyage, Moscoviada

Favorite authors: Etgar Keret, Yurii Andrukhovych, Woody Allen

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Midnight sun at Nordkapp
Hiking in Chinese mountains and sleeping in Buddhist temples
Camping on the Armenian-Iranian border, simply in the middle of nowhere
Publishing book about China
Coordinating data analysis for the UN project

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm interested in international law, the interplay between human rights and new technologies such as AI (doing my PhD) literature, cinematography. I can also help advise in choosing tourist equipment for hiking or tramping. I like also history and geography, so we can have really interesting discussion about that. Or I can share some stories about my travels.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories, experience, ideas!

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Norway, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, United States

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