CURRENT MISSION

To connect with as many different cultures as possible during the times I'm not travelling

ABOUT ME

An engineer by day. Often pondering how to explore the world, ideally by bike or on foot.

PHILOSOPHY

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go." - T.S. Eliot

"Adventure is just bad planning." - Roald Amundsen

"Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look that) I would put my finger on it and say, 'When I grow up I will go there.'"
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Host, guest, and bug finder. I'm interested in helping develop the search and sort capabilities of CS2 as the project grows.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted:
Sep 2006 - Doug Hemingway from Ontario
Mar 2007 - Ryan and Melissa from Ontario
Jun 2007 - Vince and Wiebke from Germany
Sept 2007 - Sandi and Markus from England
Mar 2008 - Jas and Lauren from NYC
Aug 2008 - Randy Enns from Winnipeg

Surfed with:
Jan 2007 - Char and Willy Koenig, Mexico City
Feb 2007 - Jose Lopez, Morelia, Mexico
Aug 2008 - Michelle and Mark, Penticton, Canada

We're keen to offer our futon to anyone traveling through Vancouver.

Interests

Traveling, scrambling mountains, hiking, road/trail running, road/mountain biking, climbing, downhill skiing, snowboarding, skate skiing, snowshoeing, kayaking.

I'm also really into music, playing guitar, eating food containing cheese, and sleeping.

• dining
• cheese
• running
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• hiking
• kayaking
• skiing
• snowboarding
• snowshoeing
• trail running
• rock climbing
• cartography
• engineering
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service, Radiohead, Muse, Tapes 'n Tapes, The Weakerthans, Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Metric, Feist, Jason Collett, Apostle of Hustle, The New Pornographers, Black Mountain, Sloan, Thrush Hermit, The Super Friendz, Hayden, Weeping Tile, Sarah Harmer, The Inbreds, Mike O'Neill, The Tragically Hip, k-os, Buck 65, The Rheostatics, The Lowest of the Low, Kings of Leon, Neutral Milk Hotel, Elliott Smith, Bright Eyes, Beastie Boys, GBV, Sebadoh, Sonic Youth, The Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, System of a Down, At the Drive-In, Metallica, Weezer, REM, U2, The Police, The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Vines, The Hives, Franz Ferdinand, Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon, Bob Marley, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young, Björk, Beck, Cake, Vivaldi

Books: Doogle Goes to Hospital, Life of Pi, Into Thin Air, The Lore of Running, The Count of Monte Cristo, Animal Farm, The Catcher in the Rye, Microserfs, Freakonomics, Tales from Firozsha Baag, Brave New World, 1984, short stories by Alistair MacLeod and Arthur C. Clarke

Movies: Into the Wild, The Shawshank Redemption, Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, Hot Fuzz, Killing Zoe, Napoleon Dynamite, The Big Lebowsky, No Country for Old Men, Fargo, Raising Arizona, Little Miss Sunshine, Fight Club, Tron, The Royal Tenenbaums, Being John Malkovich, Lost in Translation, Finding Nemo, Wedding Crashers, The Hunt for Red October, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, The Usual Suspects, American Beauty, Sling Blade, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dead Poets Society, Schindler's List, Crash, Thank You for Smoking, A History of Violence, An Inconvenient Truth, Sicko, Bowling for Columbine, Best in Show, Blood Diamond, Babel, Stranger than Fiction, It's All Gone Pete Tong

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Climbed Kilimanjaro with my family in 2004.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'd like to learn about strange, exotic foods - the stranger, the better.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Netherlands, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom

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