I'm Ori, 30 years old and still not sure what I'm gonna be when I grow up. Been a lot of things, been in a lot of places, lived all over Israel...

Hoping one day to open a guest house, hoping to write my book, hoping to travel till I feel satisfied.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

If I could, I would always work at what was my true self always - a life guard. Yeah, in a small village where I grew up, knew everyone, they all knew me, red all day, drank and ate next to my pool.

But, now I have to do grownups stuff, unfortunately... So I do my best. But still, the only peace of mind, equanimity I find, is when I travel. It's not healthy, for both my funds and my grownup-stuff-to-do, but that's the truth.

The closet there is to traveling, without going anywhere, is hosting. That's why I worked in a guest house in Tel Aviv for a long while. That's why now I trying yo open one of my own. That's why I'm on Couchsurfing.

Interests

Movies, Basketball, History, Books, Movies, Hiking, Traveling abroad, Bars, Movies...

• books
• yoga
• meditation
• drinking
• movies
• traveling
• billiards
• hiking
• bungee jumping
• basketball
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

They say "I can't pick 'THE BEST' ones...", but I think I just might:
- Bob Dylan (in English), Ehud Banai (in Hebrew).
- 'The Lion King'. At the top of the pyramid... I can't write them all...
- 'The Kytes' by Roman Gary.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Won a free 7 days trip to Barcelona for drinking in a bar in Israel, and had whole week of multiple "one amazing thing I've done"s.

- Left everything I had at the age of 30, and went traveling in India for 5 months. After 3 days, I tore my right ankle ligament, and was told I'll need to go back home to have surgery. Kept on traveling, and went off season to Ladakh in northeren India, off season to the top of the Himalaya, with crutches and a Forrest-Gump-looking brace for my leg.

There, after being altitude sick for a while, started recovering my leg with yoga, meditation, and hash... Stayed in this remote and cut off from the world area till the roads opened, 3.5 months later...

Other than that, I have:
- Infiltrated the Muslim 'Dome of the Rock' in Jerusalem.
- Infiltrated Pakistan from northern India.
- Did 3 Bungee jumping in New Zealand.

Teach, Learn, Share

- Can teach about Israel, and all history related subjects of the middle east.
- Can learn to play some instrument, and some languages.
- Can share my life of a traveler-not-traveling-at-the-moment with any traveler.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Canada, Greece, India, Italy, Malta, New Zealand, Russian Federation, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Israel