CURRENT MISSION

To travel place that i can learn something new, and never would have thought about ever going

ABOUT ME

42 countries down, 154 to go & Georgia is the next target spot
"on ne va jamais aussi loin que quand on ne sait pas ou l'on va"

PHILOSOPHY

When I am given a roof, I forget how to find shelter under trees. When I sleep in a bed, the following day the grass starts to morph into the unacomodating texture of rock. Crank up the stereo, and I'll become deafened to the live organic concert unfolding right in front of me. Drug me up at the party, and I'll lose my ability to fly off my thoughts. (Ibby E Okinyi)

Fill my pockets full of money and I lose the enjoyment of traveling. Able to buy a thousand airline tickets and now i just want to go nowhere.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

i just travel and spread the news, & when not working host everyone and anyone at my place so i can make some money, I mean free

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Thailand, meet Jib and went to the movies, Germany meet Edda and friends to drink beers from Cologne, Walked the Berlin wall with Peter Horning, Peter taught me the difference between east and west Germans, ate rare meat with Anna in Prague, sat around a local bar and was invited home with 2 Belgium because train stopped running at 10 pm; told me I was asian-oticm and we spoke Spanish all morning but I don't know Spanish. Learned from Alice in Hong Kong that ladies night means the guys don't have to buy any drinks for the ladies. Slept at the Hong Kong Oriental Mandarin one night, and sleep on the street with the occupy Hong Kong the rest of the night as a gust of Ho se Fu. Rode a bus from Costa Rica to Panama with Gerardo Martin Casillas. He got search at every border crossing since he was Mexican. They thought he was a drug dealer. Knock on his door a week later in Irapuato Mexico and surfed his couch. found no drugs in the house, was a little disappointed but now we are family. Ate Chinese food with Abigail in Guadalajara, Abigail helped me ask Liliana out on a date. found out Abigail was a Mexican Hippie, Went on 3 dates with Lilian D Fuentes and visited her mother's house, found out she liked female :-(, bought a bike in Nice France and rode it to Barcelona Spain, got yelled at by a French road worker for being stupid and riding on their highway at night, but he gave me a ride to the next city, went to Iraq, wonder why i didn't meet any friends there?

quit my job in silicon valley, going to visit all the countries in the world and get a job washing dishes in Italy at some restaurant along a small alley, but ran out of money, and now i'm back in San Francisco digging for gold, go to the farmers market every Saturday morning on my skateboard. drink a cup of blue coffee and wonder when I can leave this Alcatraz city and wake up in a new country each day , live with a Russian girl name Anyuta, we shared the living room since we are both poor, she drew me a picture of a castle on a hill, I bought her a green bike, we eat dinner with our Greek roommates most of the nights -- she puts feta in her rice? went to Hawaii with the crazy one called Stella to jump off black rocks. Had sushi in Nicaragua my CS friend and her mom in Managua. They show me all around their city while I waiting for Linz and her crew to come to work on the work project. Went to Grand Canyon with Alek and Summer, there will never be another road trip like that again, how do you out do perfect. They show me show much that can be done in travel. Now just sitting here waiting for my next trip somewhere, anywhere but here

Interests

laughing at good joke, sports of all types, running, flying, sailing, reading, badminton, painting - Monet, traveling; meeting unique people, doing things i have never done before: anything. This is what i really enjoy doing something different in a different location every day

• books
• perfumes
• concerts
• dining
• chocolate
• chinese food
• beer
• coffee
• running
• coach
• partying
• drinking
• flying
• news
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• cycling
• sailing
• sports
• boxing
• badminton
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Count of Monto Cristo: book
Anton Chekhov Antuta
Good to Great: book
A Thousand Splendid Suns: book

Country music and pop
Thomas Crown Affair: movie
The Saint (1997):movie

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

got awarded a medal after AWOL-ing (leaving the military without asking) for 8 months on my last day in the Marine Corps for excellent work. life is like a box of chocolate, there's nothing sweet inside so find your own sweetness even when none exist

Teach, Learn, Share

There are no Master and servant, Just "Scholar and Teacher" If you coach surf Vietnam bring something to educated the local vietnames as trade-back. Books, your time, idea, alcohol , coke

What I Can Share with Hosts

my wine but not my chocolate

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Iraq, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Mexico, United States, Viet Nam

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