CURRENT MISSION

To discover the world, learn new cultures, and do something good.

ABOUT ME

Currently I work as a project engineer in a lead smelter, so I spend my days dodging particles of lead they are trying desperately to get themselves into my blood stream.

Before that, I traveled the world for 18 months, trying to get traveling out of my system. 18 months was good, but now I have come to realize that I'm more likely to become a permanent traveler throughout my life than your conventional settler bound to one spot on this massive globe of ours. And before that, I spent the last 5 or so years working for the same engineering company in New Zealand, Indo, and Australia - great company and good fun, which is why, after an entire year or so of traveling and seeing as many new opportunities as possible, I came back to the same company.

I use to love adventurous stuff (rock climbing, skiing, mountain biking, hiking etc), actually I still do, but I also now like my team sports as well.

I'm an easy going guy who is happy to go with the flow, always ready to jump on board the next adventure. Or go to the more intrepid spots - I don't like mainstream - so you probably won't see me with a job in London town, but you could find me working in the middle of Uzbekistan on some engineering project there if one existed. Keen to live life to the fullest!

PHILOSOPHY

It's the people, not that places, that make the difference.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

First up, this site is fantastic. 5 years ago, back in NZ , I lived in a house with 3 other friends. One day 2 random english guys turned up and stayed at our house for 10 days. It was super fun, and when they headed south I simply phoned my engineering friends who lived 3 hours down the road for the next port of call. There they stayed for another week, before they travelled further south, staying with some other engineering friends. It was our own engineering class network, which covered NZ pretty well, but this CS Project covers the world. TOP STUFF CS! I'm here to let people stay on my couch when I can offer it, and also to provide some good company to hosts wherever I will end up on a couch.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed with:
An awesome couple in Stuttgart, Germany
Some chilling sisters in Krakow
A Londener living italiano style in Citta di Castello
An architect in Prague
A bunch of medical/maths/hebrew students in Prague
A canadian/brazilian couple living in Geneva
A chicago couple living the desert life in Morocco
Florita and Lucho in yantalo - the nicest old couple in the history of the world.
Plus heaps of friends from around the world.

People I have hosted:
Satu many sauna and her sister supa Sanna from Finland. - I hosted these two in tents, an uncle's bach, NZ back-country huts, and my parents house.
Maggie from the states - plays a mean ukulele.
Olga and Coti - couple of spanish chicas I found hiding in the dark.
Ganesh - swings a sledge hammer well, lively chap.

And many more to come I hope.

Interests

People. Religions. Cultures. Monoliths. Monologues. Skiing. Climbing. Treking. Dialogues. Adventure. New Things. Philosophy. Peace. War. Old Things. Sociology. Touch Rugby. Real Rugby. Exercise. Geography. Thoughts. Snow. Rocks. Mt Olympus (NZ). Engineering. Quantum Physics. You.

• architecture
• exercise
• sauna
• team sports
• traveling
• cycling
• hiking
• skiing
• sports
• rock climbing
• rugby
• engineering
• geography
• history
• mathematics
• physics
• religion
• sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

I like getting introduced to new music - especially music that comes from the place that I am visiting.

Movies: Shawshank Redemption! I really enjoy a good movie, but have no time for B grade movies. Good movies can provide such good insight if you know what to look for... as opposed to TV which is usually just brain-off time.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Riding into a quiet forgotten village somewhere near Tafraout, Africa. Then watching the children slowly emerge from their hiding places, growing with confidence as every minute passed by, until it was all screams and giggles as we chased the kids around in circles. Everyone laughing, everyone smiling. It didn't matter that they didn't speak english, nor french nor even arabic, we still had fun and a smile can say everything.

Teach, Learn, Share

Respect your host.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Morocco, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand

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