CURRENT MISSION

See the world, all of it, spending as little time as possible being a tourist

ABOUT ME

I'm a very easy going person who always puts his hand up first for any experience.

I love meeting new people and making new friends, and seeing new places and cultures ... I love the little things, like how people sit facing the wrong direction in cafes in Paris - you guys are weird.

I've long since given up on checkbox tourism, I'd much rather spend a day in a cafe playing chess and people watching than rushing around a city seeing yet another cathedral. Local knowledge always trumps, and people always make the destination.

PHILOSOPHY

If I died, I think I would most like to be remembered as "that guy who really lived his life".

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am traveling indefinitely, seeing where the winds take me on this crazy journey we call life. I started in March 2009.

Interests

Making new friends, watching science fiction movies when no one is watching, seeing different places, snowboarding and skiing, fixing things.

• oktoberfest
• movies
• chess
• traveling
• cycling
• camping
• skiing
• snowboarding
• science
• tourism
• lakes

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've surfed in glorious Bondi, rode a bike around the lakes of Interlaken, kissed a crush atop the Eiffel tower, trekked to Mount Everest Base Camp in Nepal, drunk myself silly at Oktoberfest in Munich, almost died skiing in Whistler, pulled off a naked backflip snowboarding in Niseko, played chess outside the Kremlin in Moscow, bought a horse and rode it across the Mongolia, and I've loved and been loved.

Countries I’ve Visited

United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Canada, France, Greece, Japan

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