CURRENT MISSION

To live beautifully

ABOUT ME

Occasionally I like to be serious, but I prefer laughter. I enjoy wilderness backpacking and meaningful conversations about philosophy, religion and all the good ideas that make life worth living. I have a burning passion for spicy Thai food (indeed, for all rich and flavourful foods-- yum!) I like learning about people, about where they've come from, where they're going and all the sites they've seen along the way.

PHILOSOPHY

"If you have two loaves of bread, give one to the poor. Sell the other and buy hyacinths to feed your soul." -Hindi Proverb

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have hosted people, surfed with people, and told others about this wonderful website.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've had great couchsurfing experiences across Europe and North America. Very grateful to have met people I wouldn't normally encounter through my regular circle of contacts. So enriching!

Interests

Spirituality
Social justice
Ice cream

• dining
• traveling
• backpacking
• swimming
• divinity

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:

Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Silence by Shusaku Endo
Les Miserables by Viktor Hugo

Music:

Everything except country western and heavy metal

Movies:

Les Miserables (the Liam Neeson version!), Brother Sun Sister Moon, Amelie, Water, Les Hommes et des Dieux, Life is Beautiful and more

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've done a fair share of traveling around Africa, North, South and Central America, Europe, Central Asia and India.

A few crazy experiences:
-Swimming down a river with pirhanas in Costa Rica
-Getting stranded (happily, with two friends) in the Kyrgyzstan desert
-Taking an Indian sleeper train in the wrong direction and waking up in Guwahati instead of Kolkata

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Northern Ireland, Palestine, Peru, Poland, Qatar, Serbia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Canada, India, United Kingdom, United States

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