CURRENT MISSION

save the world... or at least make people's lives better

ABOUT ME

Mad scientist hellbent on saving the world...
and living with no regrets =] - and his traveling vagabond of a wife

We just moved back to the states after living in the Netherlands for 2.5 years - culture shock!

PHILOSOPHY

Misha:
"I'll sleep whem I'm dead" -Warren Zevon
"It's fun to do the impossible" -Walt Disney

Kimberly:
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." -Gandhi
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." -Douglas Adams
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seuss

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

we hope to travel a lot in our lifetime and perhaps live in different locations - wherever we will go, there should be a couch for people =]

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We have had really positive experiences with CS!

Our Danish Easter celebration in Copenhagen with 6 other couchsurfers has been the craziest so far! I think we will not need another shot of Snaps for some time!

Interests

in no particular order...
science, music , arts, politics, outdoors, traveling... very likely just about everything...

in love with Kiva.org - it's an amazing, cheap, and easy way to micro-finance people to improve their lives. Check it out and help change the world one person at a time!

• arts
• culture
• dining
• cooking
• partying
• politics
• traveling
• knitting
• music
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• bungee jumping
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Misha: Daniel Quinn books (Ishmael, etc...); Guns, Germs and Steel; The tipping point

Kimberly: The Fountainhead, David Sedaris, David Rackoff, Three Cups of Tea - the story is so inspiring you will immediately want to find your own way to change the world!

oodles of movies, but stay away from anything mushy or overly Hollywood...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Have helped people learn new things... watched them realize that they've learned something and making a difference...

Travelwise - canyoning and bungee-jumping in New Zealand, hugging a koala and parasailing over jellyfish in Australia, hiking through a waterfall in Jamaica, floating down the Yangtze in China, seeing Spamalot in London, and countless other adventures past and future...

Oooh - also, we went to a party the one night in Maastricht and there were 15 people from 11 different countries - how cool is that?

create your own visited country map

create your own personalized map of the USA

Teach, Learn, Share

Misha can teach you how to buy a goat in Russian along with lots of science-y stuff and Kim can teach how to cook some yummy food or to knit plastic bags out of plastic bags...

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belarus, Netherlands, United States

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