On the way to Asia by motorbike with my life companion

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm travelling around the world on my motorbike with my companion, pointing east. We've got a tent and sometimes we can also sleep in hotels, but I think that the best way to travel, to really enjoy where you are, is to meet people in the place they live. I love to exchange experiences, to learn other languages, to meet new friends and, why not, to share a part of the way. Thanks to Couchsurfing this is easily possible.

Interests

Of course I love to travel, I worked a lot for it and now this is my way of life. I love to practice any sports, in the water, snow, ground and air; I like also motorsports, I really love riding motorbikes and I've built a custom one; years ago I was getting the private pilot license for small airplanes, than I chose sail planes and tried parachuting, but the high costs of air sports in Italy made me give up. In Turkey, after three months I had left my ordinary life in Milan, I became a paraglider pilot, finally realizing my childhood dream of flying... I'm now training to be a professional paraglider but for a while I'll go on travelling heading east riding my Suzuki V-Strom with my life companion.

• flying
• motorcycles
• traveling
• socializing
• sailing
• sports
• motor sports
• paragliding
• languages
• nature

Music, Movies, and Books

I use to listen to a lot of music everytime and everywhere and these are some of my favourite groups: Rise Against, Placebo, Nirvana, Finger Eleven, Rev Theory, Coldplay, Pearl Jam, Three Days Grace, Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Sour, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Muse, Editors,...
Best movies for me: Into the wild, Diarios de motocicleta, Inception, The Aviator, The legend of the pianist on the Ocean, Born Twice, The Last Samurai,...
Best authors of books: Tiziano Terzani, Antonio Tabucchi, Herman Hesse, Franz Kafka, Brian Weiss,...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Excited for my travel and thirst for knowledge I was attending the morning prayer at 2:45 in a tiny mosque in a hundred-people village in the middle of nowhere on the boundary between Turkey and Armenia when, suddenly, after just a few verses from the Koran, all around dozens of wolves started to howl so loud that it was hard to hear imam's voice even inside the mosque! An amazing experience...

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share experiences from past travels and from my current long trip with motorbike, we can talk of whatever about travelling and alternative lifestyles and meanwhile I can give some good Italian receipts,...

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Laos, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Maldives, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Turkey