CURRENT MISSION

To explore, learn, feel, see ...

ABOUT ME

I am fairly social, talkative, love finding out about different people and cultures, am interested in art and music, and am a pretty active and independent person.

PHILOSOPHY

Difficult to categorize ... somewhat on the incongruous side, with nuanced touches of misanthropy thrown into the mix ...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have enjoyed the generosity of other peoples' couches traveling recently through Europe, which allowed me to meet some really great people, very interesting and diverse, and over a short span of time get a more intimate and personal understanding of the places I was traveling to. However, I have yet to host other couchsurfers, although I am looking forward to doing so.

Interests

I love traveling to distant lands and exploring cultures that lie well outside the western archtype, individual sports, writing, reading, cinema, and music.

I have on and off maintained a travel blog at www.nelfinberg.com ... the main page is not OK but just click on the links on the right to see the individual postings.

• wildlife
• arts
• writing
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• blogging
• music
• hiking
• sports
• parks
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Andrei Tarkovsky, Lars von Trier, Marguerite Duras, Bertrand Tavernier, Jean Luc Godard, Fellini, Almodovar, Werner Herzog

Books: Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, Ben Okri, Nietzsche, Rilke, Henry Miller

Music: Acid Mother's Temple, Paavoharju, Issa Babayago, Dub Colossus, Tetsou Inoue, King Crimson, Popol Vuy, Roky Ericson, Cluster, Hector Zazou, Koji Asano

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiking the Simien mountains in Ethiopia, seeing a whale breach in Clayoquot Sound off the coast of British Columbia, seeing the ancient Mayan temples in southern Mexico, exploring the streets of Rome, exploring the wildlife parks of western Uganda ...

Teach, Learn, Share

Always having stories to tell .... never a dull moment!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Belize, Burundi, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Comoros, Denmark, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Italy, Jamaica, Laos, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Peru, Rwanda, Réunion, Seychelles, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sudan, Swaziland, Sweden, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Yemen

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada

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