CURRENT MISSION

Argentina then France Montpellier

ABOUT US

This profile is now for two, my wife - Anne - and I.

Once upon a time we were ... ''right up the North West end of the Coromandel Peninsula, a little 'town' called Colville, half an hour north of Coromandel. I have a little boat and I spend lots of my time sailing it. The rest of the time I'm fishing, gathering shellfish, bottling fruit, writing and drawing, chopping wood ... and doing country things. you'd be welcome to join me for a few days.''

We lived also in Aix en Provence, Montpellier , Strasbourg , Metz , Lyon, Wellington, Auckland , Montreal, la Reunion, Prague, London , Brighton... Separately or together...

PHILOSOPHY

Remain as present and open as possible.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Plans for 2016:

We will be returning to our collective farm in Coromandel, New Zealand. There's a spare housetruck with two beds and lots to see and do! Wood fires, fruits trees, fishing etc. The woolshed had been converted into a music club with lots of gear and is popular with the locals.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I had someone come bivouac/boat "surfing" with me for a week a few years back. We sailed around the Bay of Islands, sleeping on the beach and exploring. I couchsurfed in Hawai'i and the Southern states on my last trip overseas. It was great!

Interests

Drawing, eating (and cooking) delicious things, writing, letting nature win, other people's charming foibles ... and sailing

• writing
• cooking
• boating
• drawing
• music
• fishing
• surfing
• sailing
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: The National, Micah P Hinson, Lucinda Williams, Paul Simon's Gracelands (esp while cleaning), Nina Simone, Toots and the Maytals, The Pheonix foundation (NZ), Rufus Wainright doing Leonard Cohen, also Afrobeat, Brazillian and other music good for dancing.
Movies: The Idiots, The Celebration, In My Fathers Den(nz), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Books: lots of nonfiction, Joan didion, Martha Gellhorn, Anna Politkovskaya, Hunter Thompson, Nick Kent, and Anais Nin - plus comic artists Art Speigelman, Joann Sfar, Joe Sacco, Sammy Harkham. favorite travel book - as I walked out on midsummer's morning - by Laurie Lee.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sailed across the Pacific Whangarei-Seattle. phosphorescent dolphins are hard to top, and very hard to photograph

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Belize, Cook Islands, El Salvador, Fiji, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Kiribati, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Thailand, Tonga, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, France, New Zealand, United Kingdom

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