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WARNING!
This ain't Airbnb. I treat this as a way to meet people, spread knowledge, goofing around breaking into restricted areas, and in general making friends and seeing the world. If you're just looking for a place to crash and not at least humor me, probably not the best place.

That said if you're here for a night and gotta leave early, I understand. Just let's share a beer or tea time or something :-D

This is a friendlier face explaining it :-D
https://youtu.be/njKB0LTCQb4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBU9d8pAfEo
https://youtu.be/eQVP0Dk9LhM
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Beyond that...

Not much to say. I haven't been active too much in the past year although I want to. Time and stuff, you know?

Food is good, people are good, traveling is good. Except bad food and bad people. Those are bad.

My undergraduate was at Purdue University and while doing a study abroad in Turkey I was introduced couchsurfing as a way of meeting people, making friends, and learning about the culture from a slightly different angle.

Since graduation I've worked for a small contractor before a massive downsizing. Since then I've gotten a Masters in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati.

I had an internship in Schwerin, MVP, Germany! I'm quite happy about it, yes. It was great!

I now work in Walla Walla, Washington. Woo!

My facebook is www.facebook.com/si.vis.amari.ama , and I will give my e-mail to you if you ask. I'm trying to make it easy to cyber-stalk me because I've had some poor experiences in the past. Plus either you or I are opening our home, we deserve to know each other as well as have multiple ways of communicating since this website has had issues in the past.

~~~~PHILOSOPHY~~~~

If you would be loved, love.
-Hecato

Use your time, don't let your time use you.

Love takes time, and time takes effort.

No one deserves Hell for eternity.

A person isn't defined by what they have done, but rather; what are they planning to do and what are they doing to achieve it?

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Hayat beklemez!

If you're going through Hell, keep going.
-Winston Churchill

Above all nations is humanity.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet new people, make friends, get interesting insights, and of course have someone to pass the time with.

To sleep on many an exotic floor.

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I surfed, will continue to surf.
I've hosted, I want to continue to host.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Excited about couchsurfing and meeting people in the places I go, and some of the best experiences I've had have been with C.S. Just please respond to requests. I will always respond to a request or message!

I was here for the legacy profile as well. For those interested.... https://www.couchsurfing.com/users/4495166/profile/legacy

Interests

Virtually everything so long as I'm alive at the end of it..
Archery, swimming, horse-riding, food, reading, history, people, health, languages, art, music, storytelling, tea, cake, coins, shells, nature, glass, systems, painting, drawing, ceramics, running, hiking, climbing, reading, jokes, golfing, diving, philosophy, rowing, dancing, computers, caving, writing, legends, and never been but I'd love to go skydiving or any other air sport so if you can help me with that....

• arts
• culture
• writing
• dancing
• dining
• running
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• pottery
• painting
• drawing
• music
• hiking
• spelunking
• scuba diving
• skydiving
• sports
• rock climbing
• swimming
• rowing
• archery
• engineering
• history
• languages
• political science
• study abroad
• plants
• minecraft

Music, Movies, and Books

Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Dante, Goethe, Terry Pratchett, Cicero. Tolkian's Hobbit I adore. I really liked One Moonlit Night by Caradog Prichard. Harry Potter, The Decameron, The Mabinogion, other stuff....

Army of Darkness, Back to the Future, LotR, the Dambusters, Some Like it Hot, Interstate 60, Fandango, Cocktail, Jewel of the Nile, Stargate, Quadrophenia, Galaxy Quest, Event Horizon, Resident Evil, Indiana Jones, The Devil's Carnival, Event Horizon, FDR American Badass, Europa Report, Ernest goes to Camp, The Libertine, Marriage: Italian Style, Lawrence of Arabia, Agora, Devrim Arabalari, Iron Sky...

Too much music... Alright let's go.
The Who, The Beatles, Buggles, Rolling Stones, T-Rex, Moby Grape, Rammstein, Laibach, Sertab Erener, Can Atilla, Dr. Steel, Abney Park, Abba, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Annie Lennox, B-52's, Bat for Lashes, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Glenn Miller, Bing Crosby, Ozzy Osbourne, Blue Man Group, Bomfunk MC's, Cavalier King, Cher, Chicago, Chuck Berry, Chumbawamba, Dead or Alive, Depeche Mode, Flogging Molly, Elastica, Elvis Presley, Enya, Erasure, Eurhythmics, Flogging Molly, Florence + The Machine, Frank Sinatra, Great Big Sea, INXS, Joan Jett, Johnny Cash, Linkin Park, Meatloaf, Metric, Michael Jackson, Midnight Oil, New York Dolls, Omnia, Queen, Sarah Brightman, Scatman John, Serj Tankian, Starship, Styx, The Four Tops, U2, Warren Zevon, Weird Al, Yelle, ZZ Top.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meN2UdCsEwg
and
https://youtu.be/JgffRW1fKDk

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Amazing thing seen? Old man playing with his grand daughter, I presume, in the snow in Istanbul.

They changed the question. Now I'm having an existential crisis, HAVE I DONE ANYTHING AMAZING? I jumped off a cliff into some water off the Turkish coast, scaring the crap out of my friend. That's not so much amazing as it is being a jerk.

I guess what's amazing is I've hitchhiked alone a cumulative 1000+ kilometers in Turkey. Basically all along the west coast, and then from Antakya in the south all the way up to Sinop in the north, (from Mediterranean Sea to Black Sea, then looped back to Istanbul.) All to prove a point.

Teach, Learn, Share

Never say something is on steroids.

Floss daily.

If the door is open and no sign is there to say no, why not go in?

When one door closes, another door opens. Or you can just open the door that just closed because that's how doors work.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Food? Jokes? Hugs? Gratitude? History Lessons? You tell me!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Cameroon, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, Turkey, United States