CURRENT MISSION

My trip is a self-titled "Pilgrimage to Nowhere"

ABOUT ME

If you really want to know more about me, please check out my blog where I discuss a lot of personal reflection and travel stories:
http://mcguinnes.wordpress.com

Currently I am a fulltime vagabond. Prior to this I worked for International Business Machines (IBM) for 8 years. I began my career as a software developer, eventually finding myself in sales management. I held 5 different positions in the company during those 8 years.

PHILOSOPHY

My name is Keith McGuinnes. I’m from Boulder Colorado and have created this blog to document my year as a Vagabond, a self-titled Pilgrimage to Nowhere. I recently separated from IBM after 8 years and graduated with an MBA from the University of Denver. One could say I’m trying to figure out what I want to do when I grow up… This trip is much more than just travel and seeing sights. Its a journey, one that has no beginning and no end.

My eyes already touch the sunny hill,
going far ahead of the road I have begun.
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has its inner light, even from a distance–

and changes us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we
already are;
a gesture waves us on, answering our own wave…
but what we feel is the wind on our faces.

– Rainer Maria Rilke

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am new and looking forward to becoming involved. I just turned 30 years old and in the midst of trying to figure out what I want to do when I grow up. When I was 20, I spent a year abroad London, discovering independent travel for the first time as I backpacked my way across Europe. It was then that I committed to myself that before 30 I would take a large sabbatical and travel around the world. Here I am!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I am just getting started. My CS experience is limited at this point, only used once in Japan, but have spoken with countless surfers who have gotten me very psyched!I’m traveling and looking to surf this year and once I get the hang of CS I look forward to returning the karma once I resettle in Colorado.

Interests

Rock Climbing (Sport and Trad), Yoga, reading, writing, blogging, travelling, meditation.

• writing
• education
• yoga
• meditation
• reading
• traveling
• blogging
• bouldering
• skiing
• sports
• rock climbing
• business
• teaching
• software
• study abroad

Music, Movies, and Books

Music – Radiohead, Chicane, ATB, Ben Harper, Keith Jarrett, Jack Johnson
Books – need to fill this in. I love reading and this will be a long list!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Colorado Trail
Zen Sesshin
Study Abroad
Bungi Jump
Backcountry skiing

Teach, Learn, Share

I have a lot of expertise in computers, stemming from my education and constant attachment to one since the age of 12.
I’ve been in Sales for 3 years and just graduated from business school so love brainstorming entrepreneurial ideas or anything business related

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