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Bruggen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
@danielhouben
Member since 2019
Currently traveling. I'm very spontaneous and adventurous - always in for a trip to somewhere! I'm a calm and curious person who always likes to get to know new people and have conversations :) I like to be in nature a lot, hiking and camping. I’ve been traveling since 2022, with occasional stops at home to see friends and family. My first trip went through Spain to Morocco and along the coast of Portugal. The next one took me from Germany through the Balkans all the way to Turkey. I’ve collected many stories along the way, discovered amazing places, met great people, and found some of my deepest friendships through couchsurfing. I’m curious about your travel stories, plans, and ideas. My next big trips will hopefully take me to Southeast Asia and Latin America :) I would like to try all the different ways of traveling. Hitchhiking together. I did wildcamping some times, would be cool to do different trips with a group of travelers, camping together, renting a van or try Bikepacking! A dream would be to join a sailing crew to go boat hitchhiking :D I mostly travel without plane and I want to experience the journey, distances and everything in between. Besides calm things like some talking together, walking through the area, having a drink together, I'm also always in for swimming, hiking, all kind of watersports and outdoor activities. If there is a host, it would be nice for me to stay but I also like just to meet, get to know each other and exchange stories If someone likes to join a part of traveling - let's go together, you're welcome!
Interested in Adventure Sports
Interested in Animals
Fluent in German
Learning Spanish
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
I like to become friends with people all over the world. I want to know what the everyday life is at different places and to connect more with the area and the people living there. It's very interesting for me to exchange experiences with locals or other travellers from all over the world.
Music, Movies, and Books
Avatar, Into the Wild, Documentaries about Traveling and Nature, Skins, In time, Tribute von Panem, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Der Schwarm by Frank Schätzing, Eragon, The Joker, Linkin Park, Pendulum, Rise Against
One Amazing Thing I've Done
Meeting someone in the evening via couchsurfing who spontaneously joined me the next day to go camping together at Costa Brava and to travel down the coast together for 10 days! You never know which good things can happen just the next day or in next moment :) Sleeping alone at the beach at the Amalfi coast in Italy with just beachday equipment to see the sunset there and to discover the area in the morning without tourists. Surfing in Spain and Portugal, Cliffdiving in Croatia, seeing the big waves at the Atlantic Ocean for the first time, falling asleep in the bus and waking up at the sea, Freediving at Kap Kamenjak, Seeing a volcano, hiking through Europes longest Canyon, seeing a sea turtle, cuttlefish and a rey while freediving in the Mediterranean sea
Teach, Learn, Share
I love longboarding under the palm trees along the coast! if you like, I could teach you :) or in summer how to go waterskiing or wakeboarding on a lake! If you like to learn german, I could help you with that too :D
What I Can Share With Hosts
Stories and ideas for slow traveling in a different way without plane Teaching what I know - German, longboarding for example I can help with everyday tasks so we would have more free time together! Like doing the dishes, getting groceries, vacuuming the rooms while you're at work See your area with different eyes - we can find something new :) Being a outdoor-activities or sports buddy Deep talks about environmental topics, activism, climate change, renewable Energies, Solar, permaculture, nature - Utopías