CURRENT MISSION

To suck out all the marrow of life... and make the change to cloth nappies.

ABOUT ME

My years of vagabonding, living in shoe-box apartments, cycling across nations (well... only one), meditating in mountain temples, acting in Bollywood and sheltering from rebel insurgents in the high Himalayas are over for now. Suddenly I'm a family man with wife, house, dog, new baby, fruit trees, veggie gardens, and even some spare futons for couch surfers.

My wife, Yocchan is an English teacher too, though she is a full-time mum for now.

Lil' Emily-chan is still not 2 years old yet, but loves the outdoors and meeting people (as long as mum is still in view).

website: sowhatsitallaboutthen.com
photos: whatsitallabout.smugmug.com

PHILOSOPHY

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot that you don't. Simplify, simplify, simplify. What do you really want? (still haven't found the answer).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfed a few times across Japan on a cycling trip a few years ago (there weren't a lot of couches in Japan back then), and since then have been offering futons to travellers, cylists and especially pilgrims (our house isn't too far off the Shikoku pilgrimage route).

Interests

I'm a mostly reformed travel junkie (yes, I admit, there may be more to life than travelling), a photography buff, love good food (both the eating and the making), gardening (though mostly i'm losing the war with the weeds), walking in the hills and am occasionally struck by a restless need to sit in cold mountain temples for a month or two at a time...

• dogs
• photography
• acting
• dining
• walking
• gardening
• traveling
• socializing
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• boxing
• teaching
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Radiohead, Iron and Wine, Fleetfoxes, Bon Iver, Bob Dylan, Beatles, Beautiful Girls, Belle and Sebastian, Xavier Rudd, Pink Floyd, Velvet Underground, Animal Collective

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, Fiji, France, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Japan, South Korea

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