COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I have dozens of friends the world over and I always welcome them to mine, as well as I am to theirs. Though I'm moving from back packing/bar hopping/change meet friends into this connected network of cultural attachés of the world. Broadening my scopes, so to speak. Countries with friends/visited/etc: Brazil Canada Germany Italy United Kingdom Japan Argentina Sweden Switzerland Netherlands States: A lot of them?

Once I visited an abandoned sand quarry in Matthews Virginia that had hit an underwater aquifer and filled with clear, blue-tinted mineral water. Now, I remember visiting it and the periphery was a sandy beach (Covered roughly 5 acres or 15,000 square km) and beyond that was a flowery meadow... and then beyond that was a dense pine tree forest... so in essence it was the closest feeling to a Faerie Glade i've ever witnessed and I still have vivid memories and dreams of that place...