CURRENT MISSION

travelling, living etc

ABOUT ME

erm ok born and grew up (mostly) in perth western australia.. i like many things.. i am a vegetarian.. i have a beard that comes and goes.. i am open-minded free-thinking and love to be a wanderer but am also a pretty good lurker...

PHILOSOPHY

live in the now
do good unto others and don't be a dickhead
haraka haraka haina baraka (hurry hurry has no blessings...)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

have only been a surfer so far but when i eventually get a pad i'll start hitting people back.. giving/receiving local advice also a good thing about couchsurfing...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

unofficial couchsurfing and hosting only.. tend to host and stay with friends met abroad or friends of friends met abroad or friends of friends travelling in Australia...
just being open to the roaming folk of the world...

Interests

music, books, travelling, people, culture, languages and attemptingtolearnthem, atleastalittlebit, observingthezanyshitthatgoesdowninourworld, spirituality, theology, philospophy, writing, working, nursing and medicine, alternative medicine, herbology, learning, laughing, looking, listening, smoking, football:bothaustralianandworld, basketball, thakraw, swimming, surfing (well, trying to), international development, journalism, anthropology, sociology, craftsmanship, art, history, geography, trekking, eating, tea, staying healthy, stretching, etcetcetc......

• arts
• culture
• writing
• books
• vegetarian
• traveling
• music
• surfing
• basketball
• soccer
• swimming
• anthropology
• divinity
• geography
• history
• journalism
• languages
• medicine
• nursing
• sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

movies (to name a few) - easy rider, trainspotting, lock stock and two smoking barrels, swingers, crouching tiger hidden dragon, deadman, the big lebowski, taxi driver, donnie darko, blade runner, the three burials of melquiades estrada.....etcetc
music (to name a few bands) - radiohead, pearl jam, massive attack, beats antique, black moth super rainbow, mogwai, the rolling stones, peter tosh, the master musicians of jajouka, fourtet, madvillian, nick cave and the bad seeds.... really this list would never end.. i love music, listening to it live, listening to it on cd or vinyl, attempting to make it... reggae, world, indie rock, post rock, trip hop, beatsy electronic stuff, older stuff, acoustic singer-songwriter stuff etcetcetc...
books (to name a few authors) - haruki murakami, iain banks, iain M. banks, john steinbeck, kurt vonnegut, paulo coehlo, georgerrmartin, jack kerouac, joseph conrad, albert camus, jonathon safron foer, neil gaiman, hunter s thompson..........etcetc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i was lucky enough to participate recently in a winter solstice ceremony within Stonehenge... this was beautiful and i felt privileged to be a part of it...

Teach, Learn, Share

don't buy a bus ticket for within Spain from Tangiers, no matter how legitimate it may seem, unless you know for sure that the bus company exists and actually operates within Europe...

Countries I’ve Visited

Barbados, Belgium, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Guyana, India, Italy, Kenya, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Netherlands, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Tanzania, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Kenya