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  • Fluent in English, German
  • 56, Male
  • Member since 2015
  • Retired Video Game Programmer
  • Some Ivy League College
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About Me

Find it all at my website:

http://markstarr.info

And if you'd like to see the one main secret attraction of Keysville that no one else knows about, check out the photos of the Keysville Railroad Trestle, circa around 1905!

http://dcim2.peachcountry.com/DSC_7088.JPG

More photos:
http://railroads.peachcountry.com/keysville_trestle_1.html

From my website on the local area railroads: http://railroads.peachcountry.com/

Also, we have a pickled preacher, but that's another story entirely...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Don't like hotels or campsites at all. Hate paying for them. Love to travel by motorbike with the bare minimum. My motorbikes: Honda Rebel CM250 & Honda CM450. Have bounced across Europe when I was back in college, and all over the US in my Datsun B210 back when I was in my twenties. You can see pictures of it here: http://zero.peachcountry.com/

If I visit you, I promise not to kill you or steal your stuff, and I assume you promise to do the same ;-) Anything otherwise is not cool and not in the spirit of couchsurfing! I'm just there for a safe place to sleep out of the rain and a shower to use in the morning, and of course to meet new people, and then I'm gone... until the next night, or the next visit! :-) Together we can all save lots of money that would be wasted on hotels or campgrounds, which to me, is what camp surfing is all about.

Interests

Computer programming, Information Technlogy, Photoshop Pixie Dust Magic, Mixing music and Karoke on Smule, Video Editing for Youtube, Motorcycles, Ultralight aircraft, Interior Decorating (oddly), Wildflowers, Long Wiki Walks, Flaming on the Internet.

The last video game I designed, had over 100,000 players:

http://air-war.org

  • theater
  • design
  • dining
  • flying
  • motorcycles
  • traveling
  • magic
  • music
  • camping
  • surfing
  • golf

Music, Movies, and Books

Adultswim, Bob's Burgers, Southpark, Mr. Pickles, Amy Schumer (in small dosses), WW2 videos on YouTube.

Kick Ass, Kickass 2, Hannah, Shawshank Redemption, about a billion others. I have like 1000+ movies.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Survived a concentration camp in Georgia, and walked out the front door.

Visited another one as a kid in Germany. Never thought I'd ever be in one myself.

Teach, Learn, Share

Augusta is about 20 miles north of me on Highway 1 to I-520 Bobby Jones, so if you need a place to stay during Master's Golf Tournament, and are broke as ****, my couch would be a cheap alternative.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Hot Showers / Free food / High speed Wifi Connection / Safe place to crash for a night. What more could you want?

Ok, a view. Of something, anything. I have a view off my front porch of 5 acres of our Pecan Orchard, and that's it, not bad, but not spectacular either.

CAMPING: If you feel safer pitching a tent, and roughing it outside, I have 5 acres of Pecan Orchard for a front yard. There really is no limit to the amount of people that can stay if you bring your own tents and sleeping materials.

On the other hand, I know just about every secret location around here worthy of a visit...

the PAL movie theater in Louisville,
Redcliffe Plantation in Beech Island, SC
Lock N Damn behind Augusta Airport
Savannah Rapids Pavilion
Lost Ghost Towns of the Area
Bosher's Memorial Fly in
Wrens and other airport fly ins
Abandoned Recency Mall
Riverside Cemetary in Macon
Designer of the "Jeep" buried in Bartow, GA
Haunted Pillar in Downtown Augusta
Butt Memorial Bridge
Hitler's Telephone at Fort Gordon Museum
and on and on and on... etc

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany

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