CURRENT MISSION

Travel the world one place at a time.

ABOUT ME

Travel is my passion. I like to venture where few tourists go, and I like to take my time in every place I visit. I usually don't spend too much time checking the popular tourist sights and prefer wandering through the neighbourhoods of a city. If traveling the backcountry, I'll try to take side roads as often as I can and stop at random places or towns, because those are where real everyday life is going on. When I visit a foreign country, I try as much as I can to learn the culture, interact with the locals, learn the language, etc. I'm generally pretty slow and like to spend more time in a place than rush through a bunch of places. What I like above all is going on a road trip without a destination, and sleeping in the car when i'm tired. The feeling of freedom it procures is hard to beat!

I like overland travel. I find it fascinating to see the landscape, the cultures, the people, the languages, etc, changing along the way. Asia is a fascinating place for that. I love crossing borders, sketchy border towns, the feeling of moving between 2 different worlds, obscure land checkpoints stamps in my passport...

Other than that I'm a skyscraper, bridge and other structure enthusiast. I like photography in an amateur way. I like to document every aspect of the places I visit through photography, and I can be pretty annoying to walk with, always looking for the best angle to take a photo! ;) I like geography and maps. I can stare at a map for hours and I spend quite some free time checking places on Google Earth. I think I could draw a pretty good map of the world from memory!

I'm not much of a party animal, but I really enjoy a good beer with good company, without having to dance or shout to be heard!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

As a solo traveler, it's a great opportunity to meet interesting people, to make it more "social" !

Interests

Travel, Road trips to anywhere, Photography, Languages, Urban exploration

• animals
• culture
• photography
• dancing
• beer
• partying
• flying
• traveling
• drawing
• stamps
• skiing
• cartography
• geography
• languages
• solo travel
• road trips
• urban exploration

Music, Movies, and Books

I like to read crime novels or books about a travel destination i'm visiting at the moment. I listen to pretty mainstream pop/rock music.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Travel right across Indonesia from one end to the other in 5 months without flying... Drive my car to the remotest road in North America... drive a motorbike across the highest motorable pass in India, and coming back during a snowstorm... Experiencing time travel while crossing the land border between Burma and China...

What I Can Share with Hosts

I'm happy to talk and give advice about the places I've visited and talk about pretty much everything. I can also help you practise French if you're already learning it.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Laos, Malaysia, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Qatar, Singapore, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, United Kingdom