CURRENT MISSION

Experience. Challenging comfort zones. Being uncomfortable. Managing fear.

Travelling the world working with coffee.

ABOUT ME

I like getting lost and doing spontaneous random missions. Sometimes at the same time.

PHILOSOPHY

There's something beautiful there even when all you can see is bad.

"A man walking across a field encounters a tiger. He fled the tiger chasing after him. Coming to a cliff, he caught hold of a wild vine and swung himself over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above.Terrified, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger had come, waiting to eat him. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little began to gnaw away at the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine in one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Involvement in gatherings.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Being hosted and meeting people at gatherings.

Interests

Genuine humans, essentials, simple living, films, music, coffee, serenity, villages, farms, green, people watching, locals, food, hiking, live gigs, festivals, bush doofs, point of views, stories/experiences, rock climbing, bouldering, slacklining.

• bouldering
• hiking
• camping
• rock climbing
• cinema
• slacklining
• specialty coffee

Music, Movies, and Books

I like Takashi Miike and Ramin Bahrani.

Love love love these films; Man Push Cart, La Haine, Audition.

Hip hop and electronic steeze. And music that fits my mood at the time.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

1. Trekking in Nepal solo. Not seeing another soul for the whole day, thinking I was lost and would have to camp out in the wilderness a la supertramp.
PS. I have no sense of direction, hence why this experience was amazing.

2. Hiking from the south end of Koh Tao to the north, hitting bongs in the jungle, hightening (ha) my senses and tapping into the jungle during the hike. Being rewarded with mango bay's bourgeos'ness and the crashing waves.

3. Getting stranded in rural China, sleeping in the woods and hitching back.

4. Deep water solo: climbing limestone karsts with no ropes or harnesses. Easily one of the most challenging, exhilarating and frightening experiences.

5. Rock climbing in Tonsai where we climbed into a cave, abseiled into the mountain in pitch darkness, explored the caverns and the inside of the mountain with a flashlight to come to an opening where we abseiled down to the base to be rewarded with a swim in crystal clear warm waters (what a long sentence). All for free and with beautiful people I met two days earlier.

6. Ziplining on 1km cables over the Northern Laos jungle where we camped in tree houses perched high atop the jungle.

I've just now realised that this section says 'One Amazing Thing'. You can expect a lot of this from me. Total bad-assery. But honestly, I swear this limit didn't exist. They must've snuck it in..

Teach, Learn, Share

For me, CS is all about sharing, teaching and learning from each other. CS provides me with the opportunity to connect with people I otherwise would've never had the chance to meet and experience their culture with. Exchanging stories, recipes, traditions, music, hobbies, places and really what ever else, how can we go wrong? All of this excites me.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Coffee (I am a roaster/barista in the third wave movement).
Enthusiasm for being spontaneous and saying yes to experiences.
Fitness related quiblings (climbing, slackline, mobility)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Åland Islands

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, China, Germany, Nepal, Sweden, Thailand

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