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Overview

  • 13 references 8 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning Spanish, Turkish
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • Software engineering contractor ( avionics, flight/missio...
  • computers and robotics, sailing and other cool stuff!
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About Me

( description not updated since 2014 :) )

CURRENT MISSION

After four month on the west coast, searching for new projects to spend time outdoor this winter :)

ABOUT ME

I love to travel, I love to bike, so i travel on my bike most of the time. I am cycling about 10 000km per year.

I am seriously planning a round the world trip, i already began in 2006 when i bike across canada. I would like to bike europe and asia, but i am open to hitchhiking.

Two years ago I bougth my first sailboat , and a second one few month later. During the last year I worked hard to get the boat (and myself) ready to sail on the Atlantic. During the last summer I sail between 1000 and 1500 miles on the saint Lawrence and in the gulf of saint lawrence to gain experience on salt water.

Travel Maps

I really like maps, and for thoses who also like them i've made one of all the place that i have camp,

Also i detailed my travels in thoses maps :
Bike-trips (about 130 days of travel)
Sail (about 40 days of travel + i lived on my boat for more that 6 months)
Road-Trips (about 50 days of travel)

PHILOSOPHY

«Goodbye to things that bore me.
Life is waiting for me
i see a see horizon, my Life has only began
Behond the blue horizon lies a rising sun» there be no dragoon, how to cross a big ocean on a small sailboat.

« The world is in the hands of those who have the courage to dream and to run the risk of living their dreams. » Paulo Coelho

« Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. » William Jennings Bryan

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Well, I am here, having a couch and I hope i'll be able to host you!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I met a really nice people wirlth CS, it's so great to have so many people that share

Surfed:
1. M.P. Filippi -- Canton N.Y.
2. Ken Gomez -- Brewerton N.Y
3. Susan Stone -- Frederik MD
4. Jim Nathan -- Washington D.C.
5. Émilie Caron -- Chicoutimi QC

Hosted :
1. GOPRATO -- Gatineau
2. Antoine V.-N. -- Ile Bizard
3. Erika Kaunisaho -- Finland
4. Naomi Orccotoma -- Beaconsfield
5. Elena Hubert -- Berlin, Germany
6. Katja Benkert -- Berlin, Germany
7. Émilie Caron -- Chicoutimi QC

Coffee and drink :
1. Zack Kruzins -- Thunder Bay
2. James Taylor -- Quebec
3. David Hayward -- Toronto

Travel:
1. Antoine V.-N. Roadtrips to : Alaska, Mexico, Labrador, Saguenay, Ottawa, New Brunswick .....
2. Luc Tellier-Normand BikeTrip Montreal -> Washington DC in winter
3. Émilie Caron Hicking one week in the Monts-Groulx, 400 km North of Baie-Comeau, Hicking in the Chic-Chocs for a week

Interests

  • dining
  • coffee
  • running
  • drinking
  • boating
  • clothing
  • traveling
  • cars
  • outdoor activities
  • cycling
  • camping
  • sailing
  • cartography
  • medicine
  • hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Yes, yes and yes again!!!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Well i bike across Canada, 7200km in two month, from Tofino BC to Halifax NS during summer 2006. And I am getting my boat and I ready to sail on the Atlantic to Europe to continue my cycling trip around the world

Teach, Learn, Share

If you are traveling on a bike, alaways have a spare tire and at least 2 or 3 tubes, a working pump, chain links, chain breaker, tools to change a cable, and tools to change brakes pads , and few extra bolts of each size, oh also duct tape, electrical tape, zip-tie, rope , few litters of water, rain proof clothes, gaz for your stove, FOOD !!! , EXTRA FOOD , and extra tools to fix your tools when they'll broke , AND THRUST ME ... they will!

Don't be scared, enjoy your ride !

And remember, if you bike in Quebec, cars drivers don't care about you! and they don't stop at pedestrian crossing

Enjoy, there is millions of kilometers of road to bike !

Countries I’ve Visited

Antigua and Barbuda, Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Panama, Portugal, Saint Martin (French part), Spain, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada

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