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Dante Monson

Current Mission: "Opening Up Our World with Mutually Empowering Passionnate Lifestyles"

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European Collective
Belgium
Brussels
Ixelles
Lat: 50.83333, Lon: 4.36667
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General Information

CS Collective Participant : Vienna 2006!
Dante Monson has been vouched for
Couch availableTraveling at the moment
CouchSurf requests replied to50%
member sinceJune 27th, 2005
profile views7080
age25
genderMale
membernameDANTE
occupationTravelling - Sharing - Creating
educationSelf Learner
grew up inBrussels
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Languages

  • EnglishExpert
  • FrenchExpert
  • DutchExpert
  • GermanBeginner

Groups I Belong To

BIG BERLIN BEACHCAMP WITH MUSIC, THEATRE, FILMS, LIVE-CONCERTS, DANCING, SPORT, GAMES, LAPTOP-NETWORK, FREE INTERNET ETC. 322:307
Why: I'm looking forward to this Berlin Camp
The 789 Project 322:283Couchsurfing University 151:25
Active in 27 more groups.
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I have been traveling permanently in the last 5 years , and currently kind of settle for a while at a friends place in my home town Brussels.

I can ask my friend if he is willing to accept that I host some people.

Friends (72)

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PictureKadri Rull
24, Female
Polva, Polvamaa
Estonia
Friends since December 2006
"we met through a common friend"
Friendship Type: 7 - Best Friend
Met in person   Hosted30+   Surfed30+   Traveled10  
PictureBahini M.
22, Female
Berlin, Berlin
Germany
Friends since January 2008
"we met at a performing arts event"
Friendship Type: 6 - Close Friend
Met in person   Hosted3  
PictureOlga Gawlik
23, Female
Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie
Poland
Friends since June 2004
"We met on the youth camp, after we travelled together a bit"
Friendship Type: 4 - Friend
Met in person   Hosted2   Surfed2   Traveled10  
PictureDominik Werner
26, Male
Marburg, Hessen
Germany
Friends since June 2005
"met on a meeting and then again and again in marburg"
Friendship Type: 5 - Good Friend
Met in person   Hosted8  
PictureTITA
21, Female
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
Netherlands
Friends since 2005
"we met at the hospitality summer camp in monnai (2005), and we have been in contact since then. a very nice person, with a good heard and lot of ideas!"
PictureAnne-Sophie Valschaerts
21, Female
Brussels, Brussels
Belgium
Friends since August 2008
"We met at a CS meeting in Brussels"
Friendship Type: 6 - Close Friend
Met in person  
PictureShailoh Phillips
29, Female
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
Netherlands
Friends since April 2001
"we met on a community site about 5 years ago, and have been friends ever since"
Friendship Type: 6 - Close Friend
Met in person   Hosted8   Surfed3   Traveled2  
PictureAgi Gardnere
31, Female
Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Friends since October 2006
"I hosted him, when he stayed in Riga"
Friendship Type: 3 - CouchSurfing Friend
I vouched for Dante Monson
Met in person   Hosted5  
PictureFlorin Lastname
25, Male
Slatina, Olt
Romania
Friends since July 2005
"we first met at the famous Monnay Summer Camp (Hospitality Club)"
Friendship Type: 5 - Good Friend
Met in person   Surfed2  
PictureFlo Gib
34, Female
Paris, Ile-de-France
France
Friends since January 2008
"through a common friend"
Friendship Type: 5 - Good Friend
Met in person  
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Personal Description

I am originally from Brussels , Belgium.

I have been traveling permanently over the last 5 years , all over Europe

Dante Hitch Wiki Profile

update : currently back in Brussels , still roaming.

Some recent public mails:

Hc Ecology

If there is anything else you would like to know, just ask me

dante - dot - monson - at - gmail - dot - com

How I Participate in CS2

Dante Cs Wiki Profile

Canceled Detmold Collective

Dante Eisenstadt Collective Wiki Profile

CouchSurfing Experience

all over europe - especially with friends and

Hospitality Club

Dante Hc Profile

Interests

Nomadology

My Shared Bookmarked Links

Am interested in Systems Design ( cybernetics , etc ) , mutual empowerment ,

in lifestyles , ... in creation

Philosophy

Empowering ourselves By Empowering Others : Empowering Each other.

"Hungry Society" Talk

Everything is for the best in the best of possible worlds

Music, Movies, Books

"Nomadology : Freedom"

" Nomads chose to be nomads because they want to be free. Free to go their ways. It is this freedom that the sedentary man lost. The sedentary is free to own land, nomads have the whole world.

When freedom is achieved -and is it never completely achieved- it becomes a strength. Freedom generates identity and creativity. Freedom is firstly the freedom of inventing oneself.

Nomads want to be free to explore the multidimensionality of reality. They will fight until death not to be imprisoned in a unidirectional structure where movements are predetermined. "

///

did not exactly read Jack , but this extract picked up on the net resonnates...

" … I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young (Americans) wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of ‘em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures.
Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums) 1958 "

Types of People I enjoy

People that share common intentions and are authentic.

I am not really eager to play the tourist guide ,
or try to be a "fun-to-be-with-guy".

I tend to get along with hitch hikers.


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One Amazing Thing I've Seen or Done

Hitch Hike around 50 000 kilometres or more every year, these last five years / lots of great people and experiences to discover :-)

Locations Traveled

TRAVELED: Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland (Republic of), Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia-FYROM, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom
LIVED: Malaysia
WANTS TO GO: Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Canada, China, Iceland, Moldova, Russia, South Africa

References

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From Annaëlle Durand
 Tremargat, France
 Nov 6
Met in person Good Friend, Traveled 20 days 
Positive

It'd very interesting to speak about Dante, his not like most of the people who live with thing already built. Dante build his life himself with liberty, with hope to a better world, with strength.

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From TOMBONE
 Cologne, Germany
 Sep 8
Met in person Traveled 5 days 
Positive

Dante is one of the most balanced people I ever met! Always full with ideas how to connect other people and make this world a better place, on search for the unknown friends, respectfull, funny and deeply spiritual. It was a pleasure to meet you!

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From Anne-Sophie Valschaerts
 Brussels, Belgium
 Aug 25
Met in person Close Friend,  
Positive

Dante. I should create a new word to describe him. Lots of ideas that he likes to share, he wants to change the world and rethink our economy. It's really someone to meet, even if it's just for a cup of tea

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From Piotr Lewko
 Gdynia, Poland
 Aug 17
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

Dante is a great traveler and libertine. He has so many various and fresh ideas that you simply can't be bored with him. He is also a very kind and warmhearted guy. I have spent a enjoyable week with him.

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From Miora Ranaivoarinosy
 Paris, France
 Aug 13
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

Thanks for coming to La Ruche. I will keep you posted ...maybe we'll meet at the hub in brussels. cheers

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From ALLEA
 Vilnius, Lithuania
 Aug 8
Met in person Friend,  
Positive

He is very interesting guy and it`s a real pleasure to talk with him and to exchange experiences :)

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From on_the_moon
 Paris, France
 Jul 31
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

I came across Dante's profile while browsing one of a friend's, and I immediately had the impression that we should meet ... and so we did :-) !
I don't regret that move a single second, since we had a very pleasant evening, chatting, drinking and eating along with Kadri.
It was great to discover his very noble lifegoals, which I could relate to; but inspite of his enthusiasm, he didn't convince me yet to quit the big corporate world ;-) ... yet :-D !
In any case it was really fun to to discuss all the innovative ideas this guy constantly comes up with :-) !
Dante has a rich travel- and generally life-background, so indeed there's no chance to ever get short of discussion topics with him!
All this makes him very resourceful and knowledgeable, yet humbly open and thus a careful listener!
It was a real pleasure to spend time with this well-educated guy - till next time, here or there or somewhere else :-) !

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From Anna Stawska
 Warsaw, Poland
 Jul 23
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

Discovering Amsterdam with Dante was cool and unique because Dante is only one in the world - he cannot be duplicated. Natural-born traveller, individualist who goes his own ways. Cat-like Dante.

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From Ulf Kleinings
 Cologne, Germany
 Jul 14
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Traveled 5 days 
Positive

Darting eyed Normad…

The first thing I noticed about Dante when I met him at the CSC Eisenstadt (as well as when I met him again at the HC Winter Camp 2006/2007 in Warsaw!) were his darting eyes. Which are only the most obvious sign of his in general extreme focus on what he does or talks about. It totally fascinated me every time to see him how he gets close to you and - even more so - on eye level, which is especially striking as he then fixes on you his deep eyes which seem to show a genuine interest in almost everything (at least everything he's up to talk about with you) as well as a real liking of his conversational partner. I could imagine that this might make unsecure people feel a bit awkward. Only then again I saw him using those same eyes on women;-) For from that rather distressed look on his face after even all his eye-power and kind of latin-lover charms failed on that Austrian girl in his little competition with the young Austrian competitor I got the impression that he's not that used to loose on this field:-D Anyways… I felt never awkward (nor wooed...) but really liked talking to that focused and yet wildly outpouring mind just as fooling around during some fun Olympics or in cool pools on hot days or … Already looking forward to meet him again when he'll suddenly show up on another CS meeting somewhere else some other time!

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From Katri Vilkman
 Helsinki, Finland
 Jul 8
Met in person  
Positive

Spend a day in Suomenlinna. Friendly thoughtful person with a lot of traveling experience. Had an awesome day hanging out with him.

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From Hana Peters
 Reykjavik, Iceland
 Jul 6
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Traveled 3 days 
Positive

Dante lives the nomadic lifestyle I aspire to lead. We met in Amsterdam, where he gave me a some hitchhiking tips and pleasant company. Hopefully his frequent traveling will create a circumstance in which we are both in the same place again!

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From Kaisa Järvpõld
 Sankt Polten, Austria
 Jun 15
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

Interesting person.;) I am glad that I met with you and Bianka in Tallinn. Come on, you have a map of Europe in your head!

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From Olga Gawlik
 Wroclaw, Poland
 May 30
Met in person Friend, Hosted 2 days Surfed 2 days Traveled 10 days 
Positive

We travelled together in the Baltic states, Poland, Belgium, Germany. And after we met in different camps and we probable will:) He is a dreamer and a good friend, and a crazy nomad with lot of entusiasm.

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From Nell Fallcard
 Guadalajara, Mexico
 May 26
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

Dante is a very kind, philanthropic guy, and also a great observer. I got the impression he´s someone who can see the inner side of people quite easily, you find peace on his glance and voice.

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From Stefano Cortinovis
 Bergamo, Italy
 May 15
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

Interesting character you can find in camps and libraries, complex as his website, to meet and talk with again in the future. I'm looking forward to writing more in this useless box: some people simply deserve to be told.

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From FLOHFISH
 Wedding, Germany
 Apr 16
Met in person Friend,  
Positive

Monnai camp 2005; Berlin Beach camp 2005/ 2006, kloeden camp 2006, Warszawa Winter Camp 2006/ 2007
Dante is a very calm relaxed and easy-going person. Always there where sth. is going on but in a laid-back stile. Very friendly, caring and helpful. Very warm and positive.

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From SCHILDKROETE
 Berlin, Germany
 Apr 16
Met in person Friend,  
Positive

dante is an inspiring person in so many ways... very open minded... feel very connected to him... even though his english is sometimes to good for mine;-) lets make open world reality:-)

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From Guna Petrova
 Riga, Latvia
 Mar 27
Met in person  
Positive

Met several times in Riga Old Town Hostel (Backpacker pub) I still haven't talk a lot with him :) but it's nice to see a friendly faces once in the while :)
Good luck with You travels ;)

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From Shanna Schillewaert
 Berlin, Germany
 Feb 18
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Hosted 2 days  
Positive

I met Dante during the free hugs-part of Berlin Beach Camp 2006. There i was confronted with his positive vibes and sweet character for the first time.
Later i hosted him quiet spontaneously and he saved my poor hang-plant from a sad death.

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From veronikis
 Sontra, Germany
 Feb 13
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

Met Dante at the Buddhist monastery in Berlin. A soul brought a bunch of us together, to celebrate the Tibetan new year. As a good traveler... used to walking this Earth and meeting its people, Dante brought us together, to xchange thoughts and ideas. I liked his vibes and enjoyed staring at his stinky sweater... that was later washed.

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From Bahini M.
 Berlin, Germany
 Feb 3
Met in person Close Friend, Hosted 3 days  
Positive

good trusting person, traveller

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From Sierra Chai-ariras
 Bangkok, Thailand
 Jan 19
Only met online Friend,  
Positive

Dante is always a positive thinker and encourages people around him. He's always up to enjoyable and creative conversations. Eventhough we lost touch sometimes, but I can feel that I can hightly trust him and he's a nice and smart guy. ;-)

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From Ricard Salevik
 Oslo, Norway
 Dec 7, 2007
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

Of some peculiar reasons, I meet Dante wherever I go. Always with a big smile (with or without beard :)), always with new projects or ideas and always up for a good conversation. He's intelligent, sympathetic and defintely trustworthy!

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From Mihail and Maria Evans
 Sofia, Bulgaria
 Aug 17, 2007
Met in person Friend,  
Positive

I met Dante at a CDN conference in Belgrade in 2003 and then again the next year when he came to Sofia. I've also followed his posts to various lists over the last years. He is not your usual attender of EU funded youth events: he is very switched on and lively and thinks far more about the world than most people. I'm very much in awe of his determination in living his lifestyle.

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From Corina Bucea
 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
 Aug 16, 2007
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  

Dante and I spent a nice evening together, enjoying the tranquility of a summer's evening and a good quality conversation. his personality and interests are very inspiring, I hope I will have the oportunity to find out more about that!

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From MITA
 Como, Italy
 Jul 28, 2007
Met in person Friend,  
Positive

He has that 'something' what makes him totally different from others - the way of thinking, the way of living, the way of perceiving the life :)

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From GREGOIRE
 Brussels, Belgium
 Jul 4, 2007
Met in person Friend,  
Positive

Dante is a really nice guy, full of ideas and original in his way of thinking . He worth to be met even only for his way of seeing life... It makes him different from the "common people". Interetsing and relax, he is easy going and seem really peacefull...

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From Edmunds Rozenfelds
 Riga, Latvia
 Jul 2, 2007
Met in person Friend,  
Positive

Very smart and easy going guy! With the present adventure spirit.

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From AGAGAJOWNIK
 London, United Kingdom
 Jun 15, 2007
Met in person Friend,  
Positive

:)

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From BSKRAY
 Wilmington, United States
 Mar 18, 2007
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Traveled 5 days 
Positive

Like me - he ran for the pool whenever he could.........

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From TOMCOM
 Marburg, Germany
 Mar 9, 2007
Met in person Acquaintance,  
Positive

Very interesting person, we meet in Marburg at the "Spielraum Festival" in 2005, we shared a bar job. Afterwards I heard interesting things about him (by Domenik)

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From Marius Nicolae
 Vienna, Austria
 Mar 5, 2007
Met in person Friend,  
Positive

He is an angel.The guy that brought us ''the light''...he told us about this greate project:CS.
We met at the Black Sea and later in Eisenstadt at CSC.We will met eachother again, probably sooner than we think ;)

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From Shanti Ocean
 Vienna, Austria
 Mar 5, 2007
Met in person Friend, Hosted 2 days  
Positive

He was in Romania, we where playing on the beach, and he told us about this great site!He has incredible ideeas and beautiful dreams, he's always on our thoughs!It was so great seing him after such a long time in Eisenstadt at the cs-meeting, hope to meet again!
Miss you!

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From Baiba Grinberga
 Riga, Latvia
 Feb 8, 2007
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Surfed 1 days  
Positive

This guy is very nice person - dont think about future - taste this moument,....how I want learn this character!!!:)

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From Roy Abraham
 Toronto, Canada
 Feb 6, 2007
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

Dante is very interesting to talk to and lots of fun. Spend a day with him and you will experience a paradigm shift. If you have the chance to meet him you should, it's certainly an experience. I look forward to seeing him again soon.

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From Markus Petz
 Tampere, Finland
 Feb 6, 2007
Met in person Good Friend, Hosted 7 days  
Positive

Dante is involve din many initiatives and is helpful and fairly reliable. But he is a nomad.

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From HungrySteve
 Portland, United States
 Jan 16, 2007
Met in person Friend,  
Positive

Dante seems to have mastered the zen of all aspects of his life. Infinite calm, very passionate and dedicated to the things he believes in. I enjoyed so much talking with him about shared learning experiences and hubs all over the globe for nomadic sharing experiences. Amazing guy!

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From Michael Dobbie
 Seattle, United States
 Jan 6, 2007
Met in person Friend, Traveled 4 days 
Positive

ok world, this guy is here for you!

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From Florin Lastname
 Slatina, Romania
 Dec 17, 2006
Met in person Good Friend, Surfed 2 days  
Positive

Dante is one of the most interesting people I've ever met. Good ideas, good vibes. It's always a pleasure to meet him in different places in Europe. BTW, he's everywhere! :)

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From Agi Gardnere
 Düsseldorf, Germany
 Dec 13, 2006
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Hosted 5 days  
Positive

Dante is a very special person. He is full with ideas, like an ideas generator. He has his own special type of engoying his life!
He has a very big plans for his future. I hope he will find the right persons and contacts to cooperate with for his projects! I am sure, we will see us again!!!

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From Cornelia Kopp
 Detmold, Germany
 Dec 8, 2006
Met in person Good Friend, Hosted 24 days  
Positive

A special soul with great visions, a joker with a brilliant mind and sensitive heart.
I appreciate his fire of inspiration for the new century, the crazy, evolutionary
impulse and his postmodern nomad lifestyle.Thank you, Dante, for opening a new door - we will meet us again
sometime in the flow of life.I look forward to it.

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From Shailoh Phillips
 Amsterdam, Netherlands
 Oct 24, 2006
Met in person Close Friend, Hosted 8 days Surfed 3 days Traveled 2 days 
Positive

A nomad with deep dedication to developing viable alternatives to current politics and educational systems. Besides having a creative mind, he also is an extremely kind and sensitive spirit. Sometimes when my doorbell rings unexpectedly, I think it might just be Dante. Sometimes it is! I wish this would happen more often.

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From Benjamin Yu
 Anaheim, United States
 Oct 5, 2006
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

Dante's a cool guy with very cool idealistic views. And he totally pursues them. He pointed me to a lot of interesting topics that I never knew about, and gave me a cool different point of view about the world in which we live. And of the world that we can make.

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From Larry Greweldinger
 Rotterdam, Netherlands
 Aug 13, 2006
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Traveled 4 days 
Positive

I met Dante in Austria at the CSC. He is a guy with some interesting viewpoints, which I would have liked to explore further. Also, he is great in attracting new members to this wonderful organisation! Hope to meet again at some point in time.

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From Alex kiriak
 Brasov, Romania
 Aug 6, 2006
Met in person Good Friend, Hosted 1 days Traveled 4 days 
Positive

well....Dante is a traveler. we met a few times by now and with time we became friends. if there are meetings, camps, events.... he will be there. he is enthusiast , strange but interesting, dark but also clear, ...i like his theorys about different realities...we met in some of these realities and we will meet again in others:)

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