CURRENT MISSION

Cycle around the world

ABOUT ME

On March 1st 2012, I left my home in Gloucestershire, UK, to cycle around the world. I have no idea how long this will take. Still no sign of stopping.

PHILOSOPHY

Live a little.
"Which marionette pulls your strings?" - CL

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting, surfing, stories and unwitty asides.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

visited 50 states (22.2%)Create your own visited map of The World or Free android travel guide

Interests

Lots of things:

Outdoor stuff (hiking, biking, camping, kayaking)
Sports (football, cricket - I can explain the rules, table tennis)
Maps and Geography (knowing where things are ad nauseam)
Politics and Philosophy (thinking a bit too much)
Travelling ... only a bit.

• beer
• politics
• traveling
• magic
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• kayaking
• camping
• surfing
• sports
• cricket
• soccer
• tennis
• table tennis
• cartography
• geography
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: The Shawshank Redemption, Requiem for a Dream, Groundhog Day, In the Loop, Fight Club, Inglorious Basterds, Vicky Christina Barcelona, The Constant Gardener, 50/50, Black Swan, Fried Green Tomatoes, La Haine, Drive etc...

Music: different types. I will try to explain my theory of how a lot of rap is poetry (it is!). You don't have to listen.

Books: As I walked out one Midsummer's Morning - Laurie Lee (a top travel inspiration), Millennium Trilogy. Harry Potter audiobooks for cycling.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Worked 3 months to build a school from scratch in Cameroon. Cycled the Pamir Highway. Drank Lithuanian beer. Ate soup with people in Laos. Saw Imam Reza Shrine, Mashhad, Iran.

And the bonus cliche: witnessed countless people all over the world, of all means and ideologies, give their time to help me on my way.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: how to make a dragon by twisting your fingers together in a magic way (painful), how to disappear a piece of paper and find it behind a kid's ear (works 50% of the time) and how to say 'how are you' in a Cameroonian language spoken by less than 100,000 people (useful).
Learn: Anything
Share: Words

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