CURRENT MISSION

Saving to get overseas again!

ABOUT ME

Currently meandering around South East Asia with the Baybee in tow. She's 7 and awesome and very cute 'cause I made her.
Some other fragmanted thoughts about me:
Full of crazy ideas.
A compulsive reader.
A wanna be blogger.
Your new best friend for the day.
entrepreneur
Mashed potato fancier
Not a vegetarian-just an opportunist
Merchant and trader

I look like a dirty hippie but I'm not. I'm not sure how that came about. Co incidence really, i just think dreads and piercings are hot. It does confuse the fans. Last birthday mum assure me that there was vego pizza at the resturaunt (she thought i was a vego) and last chrissy my dad gave me a "how to be greener" eco warrior type book.
Currently i have a number of projects in the works...on of which is a website that i'm developing all about backpacking with the kiddies. If you've got any ideas or want to be involved contact me.

About Lotus (the Baybee)
She loves kitties and puppies. Shes almost a book obsessed as me thanks to the "magic kitty" book series.
this week she insisted on building a store at the place where we are staying. She carefully arranged piles of backpacker discarded clothing and tried to sell them to other guests. It's becoming pretty clear who she takes after.

Lolo is also very well behaved and quite house trained. She can ask a lot of questions though and she does like to show people her toys / magic kitty books, and it's pretty much guarenteed that you will be cornered and roped into some sort of lotus orientated community service. for example- face painting, snap, being read to from the magic kitty books, being told all about something terribly important, like the differences between the fanta where we come from and the fanta where you come from, why a little brother would be better than a little sister, something funny that she saw a dog doing in the street, and so on. All in all the kid's a pretty sweet deal.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

By bringing myself to the party.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I was introduced to couchsurfing when my friends at the "coledale house" hosted two delightfully crazy french chicks. My life was changed forever whne i witnessed one dancing to french music chicken dance style.
While writting this I am staying at the overstay, which has a number of people couch surfing on the roof. This closer contact with the offbeat world of surfers has inspired me to try and give it a go and become one myself, bringing the kid as a bonus and chronicaling our adventures on that website i metioned earlier.

Interests

Skinny dipping. Summer nights. Wet Grass underfoot. Salt air and the smell of winter. Satay. Mi goreng. The written word. A cleverly crafted phrase. The sound of "abysmal" and " gatsby" and "cornacopia" "plethora" and "hyperion". Geeking it up. Peoples lips. The taste of salt. Maragritas and mexican food. Silence. the bustle of big cities. Evesdropping on strangers. Sleeping on trains. Pretending to be an old school explorer.

• animals
• dogs
• books
• piercings
• dancing
• dining
• mexican food
• vegetarian
• partying
• clothing
• painting
• magic
• music
• backpacking
• surfing
• entrepreneurship

Music, Movies, and Books

Books books to many books to mention.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I'll fill this in properly later but....
Last week we went to Dusit zoo in bangkok. I witnessed an old man oranugutang beg for and then proceed to hunker down and toke on a smoke.I went a bit spare at the boys that gave it to him. But it was rather eriee watching this "primative animal" behaving exactly like my dear dead granddad. Seriously- the body language. It would have been enough to make god become a darwinist.