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Overview

  • 55 references 43 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning Spanish, Turkish
  • 43, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Traveling Tradesman
  • The more I learn the more I understand how little I know
  • From Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Stay alive

ABOUT ME

Ok what would you need to know about me.
I travel slow, I travel light, I travel whenever I can.
I spend the last few years traveling and working in all corners of the world, either to make money or volunteering to help make someone’s life a little better. I love to help and because I live a somewhat extreme life I had to push helping to the extremes too.
I have experience working with traumatised catastrophe victims. I’ve build emergency shelter, converted shipping containers, restoring water and electricity or what else was needed after nature shows what’s she’s capable of.
In my early 20s I worked for a year in a hospital where I talked with many people just before their death listening to their life regrets which influences my life till this day.
I’m extremely thankful for those experiences as they taught me what’s important in life.
Professionally I work in construction for over 26 years. I’m a jack of all trades with a somewhat unique because wide skill set and able to build and fix almost anything.
Machines, Cars, Motorbikes…I’ll give it a go as well, though I’m not a mechanic.
I really enjoy taking on random tasks I stumble across on my journey. I love learning something new everyday. I’m very curious to a point where my friends ask me why I bother to learn so many random things.
I just have the need to understand how the world works.
I got heavy into long distance trips. Everything from 100km up if it’s by foot, put me down as interested.
With my motorbike call it a thousand 😜
I don’t plan ahead but I like to be prepared for anything.
After my last breakup I decided I’m done with Dating and better off alone. I’m the wrong guy to fall in love with. I live a very Monk like lifestyle with very little possessions, spending my money mainly on flights, my Bike&Van and my nieces and nephews who are the most important people in my life and the reason why I come home to Germany for a few months every year. Thanks to my family and friends I’m very grounded for someone who travels this much.
I love my life the way it is even if it comes with the price most people aren’t willing to pay.
I have zero regrets in life as everything has helped me become a man I am very proud of.

PHILOSOPHY

Don't make decisions out of fear.

Nothing in life is free.

This is not a dating app.
We had to rescue so many girls from creepy hosts it’s not funny and worst part is that most of them still thought they had to leave a positive review coz of a free night to stay.
Sucks to hear those stories coz for me Couch-surfing changed my life and I met some of my best friends through CS.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I host, I surf, I spread the word, I go to and organised meetings (in particular Sydneys best coz only "Trash Movie Night"

Interests

music and heaps of it
tattoos, psychology, concerts and festivals
urban and street art, philosophy, thriftshopping, hiking, motorbike, reading and writing,

  • arts
  • writing
  • books
  • street art
  • tattoos
  • concerts
  • festivals
  • dancing
  • cooking
  • running
  • meditation
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • hiking
  • backpacking
  • hunting
  • surfing
  • rock climbing
  • archery
  • hitchhiking
  • speerfishing

Music, Movies, and Books

I don’t watch TV anymore but back when I did Casablanca was one of my favourite movies ever.

MUSIC:
Whiskey Myers, Ed Sheeran, Eli&Fur, Same Abdulhadi,Kim Churchill,Pearl Jam,Ben Howard,Rollins Band,Dead Kennedy's,Gui Boratto,Murder by Death,Motörhead,Egbert,Pretty Lights,Trentemøller,Truckfighters,Paul Kalkbrenner,Cotumo,Alexi Murdoch,Jose Gonzalez,Them Crooked Vultures,Turmspringer,DJ Crazy Cuts,Triggerfinger,DubFx,Little,Bob Dylan,Stimming,Maceo Plex,Dapayk Solo,Tool,Wighnomy Brothers,Kleingeldprinzessin,Alice in Chains,Bush,Queens of the Stone Age,Black Flag,Shlomi Aber,Lynyrd Skynyrd,Matt Darey,Monolake,Modeselektor,Django Reinhardt,John Lee Hooker,Social Distortion,Netsky,Böhse Onkelz,Astor Piazzolla,Hanne Hukkelberg, Yann Tiersen,Dirty Doering,aka aka,Eagles of Death Metal,Nick Drake,RJD2,Rage Against the Machine,Nada Surf,The Distillers, Tiefschwarz,Madmotormiquel,Bonobo,Eins Zwo,Apparat,The Streets,Ane Brun,Anna Ternheim,Beatles,Colin Hay,BerlinskiBeat,Sex Pistols,Calexico,DJ Dag,Sophie Hunger,The Cure,Gomez,16 Horsepower,Rammstein,DJ Hype,Ohrboten,The Clash,Goetz Widmann, Woven Hand,Dave Matthews Band,Umse,Ray Charles,Prodigy,Foo Fighters,Nirvana,Nine Inch Nails,NomeansNo,Nick Cave,Carl Cox,Beasty Boys,Gayle San,Frank Sinatra,Fanta Vier,Floggin Molly, Jack Johnson,Lou Reed,The Doors,Mos Def,Soulfly,Reboot,Johnny Cash,Sniper,Rodney Carrington,Sophie Zelmani,Fantomas,Adam Beyer,Rolling Stones,Pennywise,John Frusciante,Oliver Huntemann,Mark Lanegan,DJ Hell,Bloc Party,Severity Zero,Neil Young, Faithless,Björk,Elvis,Nico Stojan,The Roots,Gutter Twins,Frank Zappa,Jon Lajoie,Regina Spector,Beatsteaks,Dunkelbunt,Garbage, Richie Hawtin

Authors:
S.King, H.S.Thompson, H.Rollins, W.Moers, J.Steinbeck, L.Tolstoy, E.Hemingway, T.Pratchett, F.Dostoevsky, E.A.Poe, C.Bukowski

Books I live by:
Hagakura by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

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Teach, Learn, Share

What ever I know I will try to teach.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mexico, Monaco, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Vanuatu, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Costa Rica, Germany, New Zealand, United States

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