CURRENT MISSION

Trying to learn to wipe my nose singlehanded

ABOUT ME

I'm a full time firefighter/ambulance driver with a big appetite for traveling.

PHILOSOPHY

Curious about what is going on in the world, how people live, and forming my idea of a country after visiting it and not relying on tv or other media.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

As a member of warm showers: host for Phil from Australia, Marko from Sweden, Jeroen from Belgium
As a member of hospitality club: host for Yuxiang from China
As a member of couchsurfing : Christina and Marlena from Austria; two lovely girls,Jack from the UK (traveling in a milk float !!),

Interests

Traveling and cycling (and i perform these activities mostly simultaneously), music (open air festivals,gigs), science in general, movies, doing things nobody else does,

• performing arts
• festivals
• dining
• clubbing
• movies
• tv
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• communications
• emergency services
• science
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Films: the big Lebowsky, the Devil's advocate, LOTR trilogy, A Straight Story and so many many more
Music: The Pogues, Leftfield, Eels, QOTSA, Faith no more, The Young Gods, and so on and on and on...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

camping in the desert near Jericho and waking up in the middle of the night staring at the gunpoint of a AK47 belonging to an Israeli army patrol. Groovy !

A 7 day solo hike in the Swedish mountains in the middle of winter carrying all food and supplies, negotiating deep snow, very cold temperatures, remoteness,...

Waking up in a Chinese hostel room close to Tibet, staring at a giant Tibetan cowboy in full dress who is standing in our room smiling and looking at us as if we were from Mars.

Cycling for two weeks in mid winter above the arctic circle in Sweden and Norway and surviving temperatures up to -20°.

Cycling for a whole month in Iran and blown away by astounding hospitality !!

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium