Recent: ? Less recent: Celebrated NYE in Shanghai, received acupuncture, wandered around in Pinghu, Wuzhen and Shanghai, finished a Wudang Taiji training in Shanghai, started learning Mandarin, got a criminal record in China, celebrate CNY in China (2020) Less less recent: Ate frog 🐸 , cycled on ‘Silk Island’ Cambodia and learned about Khmer Rouge killings, moved to China for a month (2019) Less less less recent: changed home within Singapore, explored Bali, became a teacher, explored Bangkok greenery, explored Ho Chi Minh, acted as a Singapore tour guide (2019) Less less less less recent: Songkran, vipassana, finished a Thai massage and reflexology course (2019) Next up: learn Mandarin, discover more of Singapore, learn Salsa, improve bodywork, improve Taiji, meet inspiring people🥋 I love nature walks and the city, having long deep conversations and total silence, creating a connection and letting go. I love opposites and similarities, life and death, all emotions and feelings, and of course, I love meeting you. To me nothing is more inspiring than Life itself; beautiful and awful at the same time. It’s a drug with the most complex and intens side effects on earth. Nothing can compete with Life. Best part is, you can’t overdose 🤷🏼♂️ so make sure you take in as much as you can. Thank you, Life 🙏🏼
I am a computer nerd / book author / video artist from the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA. I escaped the stress of Silicon Valley to have much less money but a much better quality of life, eventually settling in the tiny mountain town of Pai, Mae Hong Son province, Thailand, where I have lived for most of the last 15 years. Pai is a beautiful place https://allaboutpai.com/intro/ Hope you can visit some day! In 2008 I helped Casey Fenton and the nomadic Couchsurfing dev team get set up with internet in our small town of Pai. I am a fan of natural hot springs and beautiful mountain landscapes. We have both in Pai. For my hobby, I make interactive video art where you can dance around and see yourself as if you are in an impressionist painting, or made of fruits, or distorted in time. I like to bring this video art to the Burning Man festival and I have also set it up in Pai and China. You can check it out here: https://lurkertech.com/mez/ For my digital nomad "day job" I make language learning apps for iOS/Android, including Thai and Mandarin dictionaries and phrasebooks. I am the programmer (not linguistic) side of the partnership, but I know quite a lot of Thai and just the basics of Mandarin. https://word-in-the-hand.com/ https://slice-of-thai.com/ You may have heard that Thailand, Laos, and Burma have unbelievable, horrible air pollution---worse than China---every hot season around February - April now. Lots of people buy expensive air purifiers/filters, but in Pai where I live, most people cannot afford those. So I created a free, open-source DIY design and tested it out and translated the instructions to Thai so that lots of people in Northern Thailand can breathe clean air: https://slice-of-thai.com/air/ It's not pretty, but I hope it will save a lot of lives. I noticed that a lot of Thai-Western couples seem to run into the same cross-cultural misunderstandings over and over again---most of them totally avoidable---so a Thai friend and I wrote a bilingual cultural guidebook to the aspects of Thai culture and Western culture that cause the most problems in relationships: https://thailandfever.com/ Everything is in English and Thai, so the reader can simply point across the page when he/she wants help explaining a difficult issue. I am happily single myself, but I hope this book will help people make a good decision about whether they want to embark on the challenge of a cross-cultural relationship, and be happier if so! I am a native English speaker and fluent in Thai. I learned French decades back (most of it has been replaced by Thai in my brain :) ) and know basic Mandarin. I have just started to learn some basic Spanish (so far went through 28 Pimsleur lessons and studying via YouTube/websites). Happy to teach you some some Thai if you want a very strange skill :) I am quiet and I am a non-drinker and non-smoker (of anything). I'm friendly if other people 420 etc., but for me, regular life is already stimulating enough :)
Digital Nomad, living and traveling in SE-Asia for the last two years. 🌏🧑🏽💻 I love creating artistic videos by blending art, tech, and culture. 🎬 I love connecting over fun activities or just a stroll through the city. Excited to meet and learn from fellow travelers and locals alike! ig: graylife_ My docu-series "What makes you happy": youtube.com/@graylife_
CURRENT MISSION To live life to the fullest!! ABOUT ME Just another human being... PHILOSOPHY Always remember that keeping your head up with a smile while taking deep breaths will make the world go 'round and around much smoother.
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CURRENT MISSION Engage with my experiences. ABOUT ME Dynamic Jew-Bu digital hobo INFP. 13-year nomad in search of connection, community, companionship, courage, and other good things (but apparently only if they start with the letter 'c'.) So far I have lived in USA, Nepal, Australia, China, Germany, Mexico, Nicaragua, South Korea, Grenada, Israel, Thailand, and Egypt (Sinai), and now I'm turning towards the goal of rooting in one place as a home base. Work is content writing and online English teaching. Play is organizing events for digital nomad communities. Dinners, mafia nights, and events where we get high on super strong cacao and do connection-building activities. If you are a digital hobo dharma bum environmentalist dumpster diver gypsy traveler who enjoys abrasive folk-punk music and vegetarian food, we are probably destined to be friends forever or perhaps get married and you can definitely sleep on my couch in the event that it's available. And if it's available you can sleep on my couch without that stuff too, and we will be friends anyway :) PHILOSOPHY Mindfulness. Engaging with everyday experience, including suffering. Feeling stuff fully. Appreciating feeling. Letting go gracefully. Often failing at this philosophy, and trying again every time. The best way to solve a problem is to make friends with it. By the way, I am definitely more introverted than extroverted. I like to spend time with surfers/hosts--that's the whole point--but not ALL the time. I'm independent and prefer to spend some hours hanging out and getting to know my host or surfer, but also some hours being quiet to recharge. Spices take up a disproportionately large amount of weight in my travel bag and running out of whole cumin seeds is a major emergency. Let me cook for you! Compliment my food. This is my love language! Just kidding (kind of)
Fun-loving, very social, love to just explore around places in the daytime and I really love nature. I can give you advice on really cool places to visit and the best places to go for sunsets. Love ecstatic dance (I try to be at most of them here!) I'm trying to learn more about meditation. As for night, there is an open mic once per week for poetry and music at Art in Chai cafe. There's also a monthly art festival that is really more of an evening thing (November-February). As for stuff around walking street/bar street, I can show you a really cool bar with a secret passageway and they have amazing apple-cinnamon-rum drinks. My house is only a 2-minute walk from Paradise Circus. They have fire shows on Thursday and Sunday nights and you can also go there to learn how spin fire. They also have a dj and dances after the fire shows. Sunset Bar is also only a 2-minute walk away and has weekly club-style events but we've still been waiting for something since February. Both places are some of the most-famous sources of just about every mind-altering substance you can imagine! As for other nightlife in Pai, only sometimes it's good so you kind of have to be in-the-know. Jungle parties (raves) are the most fun but they only happen about once or twice per week (November-February). I know a lot of the locals, both foreign and Thai. Some are even local djs. I can introduce you if we run into them! Like it or not, tipsy tubing has invaded Pai and my friends run it and are the djs. Every Tuesday and Friday I go to the last tubing spot which has a dj tower. It's pretty much the only place to really dance and enjoy dj music in Pai during the low season. I want people to have fun, be silly, be comfortable and be themselves, feel as if they're at home. Also great to have a good chat and learn new perspectives. NOTE! If for some reason you can't stay we can still hang. I'd be happy to show you around, give advice and it would be fun to hang out.
Am funny' friendly love to meet people love Cooking......
Currently living surrounded by nature in Pai, Thailand. Little stream, papaya trees nature and peace & quiet all around. Blisss Me in brief: NASA Research Scholar Social entrepreneur (8billionminds, The Climate App founder) Airbus satellite operator ESA Scholarship International Space University class rep Improv comedian Musician (guitar + piano) Traveler (on and off totaling many years) I'm pretty laid back :) more about me here: www.samnaef.com
CURRENT MISSION organic farming, gardening. This place is all year daily meditaton retreat conducive to inner work. ABOUT ME I had moved back to California in 2013 and currently live on the North coast of Mendocino so I can host you personally there only. I am still building my house since 2015 September while I live in the old cabin. If you are an old friend returning or new, drop me a message especially if you happen to wonder to North California and need a place to stay and connect with the current exciting projects there which we have plenty of. This place in North Thailand is operated currently by a charming couple who speak English well. If you drop in , they will accommdate you, but I cannot service this location any longer. The lodge is in the forest, near a road that goes on through several villages to the Burma border, situated in a small valley of beauty. Our base camp consists of a big teak structure and several other smaller bamboo structures around, no neighboring structures are visible. Below our base is the Nam Khong river surrounded by lush vegetation. Our lodge was built in the early 70s named Wilderness Lodge. We are ste up with solar energy but not large enough capacity and charging activity is limited to the mornings for our mobile phones , etc. The Nam Khong Wilderness Project intends to become a good example toward restoring, building and maintaining healthy top soil in the forest and farmland. Our wish is to stop the locals from burning the forest and to educate them by example how to manage their natural resources sustainably which can be a daunting life long project. WISH LIST: Making mud bricks...ongoing Chicken Coop...done Composting Toilet...done methane recovery Clay Baking Oven...done Water wheel to lift water ...done Website making a workshop with more and more tools, making sculptures, paintings, crafts, etc...almost PHILOSOPHY As I keep paying my dues believing that we can and so we shall overcome, taking life as it is, staying in the present, taking nothing for granted, always asking questions like: how can i simplify?...what is the underlying intention here?... and questioning everything since I keep discovering that nothing is what it seems. When I get out of the Jungle and go to the city, my almighty mantra is: SHUT Up! Relax and Breathe evenly but selectively.
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TRAVELING IN THAILAND Anthropology ex-student, history afficionate. Backpacker. Passionate for cultural exchanges, learning new habits, customs, languages and ethnic foods! I'm pretty simple, not complicated, well adapted, but also with lots of projects for the future! Member since 2015.
CURRENT MISSION Living in the valley of Pai across from the Mountains. Slow life. Having guests once in a while is nice. I prefer guests who want to learn and exchange skills. I am an experienced yoga teacher/practitioner. I also have a number of years of experience with Thai and Japanese massage and enjoy trading skills or learning more. I also love to jam and play music with people so musicians who like to jam are especially welcome. I play clarinet, didgeridoo, some tabla, and a little bansuri. I have guitars and ukulele and a djembe in my house too if you don’t have your own instruments ABOUT ME I backpacked in India for about 11 months, lived like a gypsy in New York, playing music on the street, and am now settling in the mountains of Thailand. I meditate, play music , do yoga, and enjoy a simple wholesome life. I was born in Israel, grew up in the USA, and lived in Japan for over a decade. I am fluent in Japanese language and culture, though being so has made me less fluent in English and American culture. My brain is mixed up. I studied psychology and biology in college and am enjoy talking about ‘deep’ things including philosophy, religion, beliefs, etc... I am not a fan of small talk. PHILOSOPHY Faith in God is important to me personally, but I am not involved in any religion. I am connected with a beautiful loving and non-judgmental Jesus Devotee community in the town. I also have a lot of experience with meditation and self awareness. I have sat and served many courses at multiple vipassana centers. Right now I prefer mahasi’s noting method and development in insight. I also share many values with secular Humanists, I believe Empathy is the key to world peace, and unlocking compassion and Unconditional love the key to true happiness. I also have practiced the law of attraction and have read and been strongly affected by Ekhart Tolle’s “you are not the voice in your head” philosophy of trying to separate self from Ego or conditioning.
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