CURRENT MISSION

To...do...something...incredible....

ABOUT ME

I left home on June 28th 2006 and started travelling, once I started I couldn't stop. I first moved to Japan for one year and then decided to meet up with a friend in South Korea where I stayed for several months until I was caught illegally teaching English and deported. I somehow ended up traveling around SE Asia by chance with different people I met along the way. I then met up with an old friend in Taiwan who put me up on his couch while I got myself situated. While living there I traveled to the Philippines and Indonesia, at which time I moved to Australia for a year. I then traveled 6 weeks through China and took the Trans-Siberian through Mongolia and one month later I was in Moscow. I returned home to Canada in March '11 for my sis' wedding...
Since then back to Mexico, South Africa, Peru and Texas USA for some good ole fashioned work...

PHILOSOPHY

Karma baby. Turn that frown upside down. Be nice to everyone you meet and try your hardest to make them smile.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have hosted and been hosted and loved every minute of it.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have surfed in a bunch of different countries. I even hosted locals while living abroad. Awesome.

Interests

I prefer to live in a country rather than just travel there. That way you get a feel for the people and the environment that surrounds you.

• environment
• bbq
• traveling
• scuba diving
• languages
• lakes
• rivers
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Coen Bros. Fincher. Kurosawa. Lynch. Fellini. Truffaut. Goddard. Scorsese. Tarantino. Nolan. Leone. Antonioni. Coppola. Miike.
Naruto. Bleach. One Piece.

Kaiser Chiefs, Lily Allen, Children Collide, Lyrics Born, Presets, Gossip, Floyd, Zeppelin, The Stones. Morricone.

Biographies. James Clavell, Bryce Courtenay, JD Salinger, Palahniuk. Classics. Currently: Psychology.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I went on a 5 day trek in Northern Laos where we drank nothing but boiled river water and ate nothing but what the land provided. Bathing in rivers and hanging out with the locals who were baffled by our digital cameras. And don't get me started on the LaoLao.

Scuba dived the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland Australia

Skydived 14,000 feet Cairns, Australia

2 Day horse Trek in the mountains in China

Great Wall

Lived with a Mongolian family in their Ger (tent)

Traveled the Trans-Siberian Rail

Chichen Itza

Table Mountain Cape Town South Africa. Bribed some cops.

Lesotho and Swaziland, outran the cops. (not on purpose, they weren't really trying.)

Machu Pichu, Peru

Texas BBQ...

Teach, Learn, Share

In 1991, 533,000 Canadians were either status or non-status Indians, and over one million claimed to be of native descent. Of these, 783 980 were from the numerous North American tribes, 212 650 were Metis (of French and Native descent) and 49, 255 were Inuit.

Canadians can speak over 100 of the world's estimated 5,000 living languages. Four million Canadians reported a mother tongue other than English or French in 1991.

Canada is the world's second largest country in the world (next to Russia) but houses only 27 million people - making it rank only 28th in population.

Canada is the largest country in the Western hemisphere. How large? 9,910,610 square kilometres, and stretching 5,500km from Pacific to Atlantic. That's how large!

Nearly 800,000 sq.kilometers of Canada's land is covered by bodies of fresh water such as lakes and rivers, making Canada the largest source of fresh water in the world. Also, the coastline extends approximately 244,000 km.

Canada is made up of 10 provinces and and three territories
British Columbia
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Ontario
Quebec
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Island
Newfoundland and Labrador
Yukon Territories
Northwest Territories
Nunavut

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Lesotho, Mexico, Mongolia, Peru, Philippines, Russian Federation, South Africa, Swaziland, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan