CURRENT MISSION 15th/June/2019 I came in San Antonio, TX with my boss (my friend) and my colleagues for NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) Conference & Expo (https://www.nfpa.org/conference/) at the convention center of San Antonio. My job is done now and from this moment, my vacation starts! - 15th/June/2019 Arrival in San Antonio for work - 21st/June/2019 My vacation starts - 22nd/June/2019 meeting Harvard and Hannah in San Antonio and visiting his mom here and going to his place in Austin - around 24th/June/2019 meeting Henry, Sasha, Vaughn, Shaun in NYC - around 28th/June/2019 meeting Justen, Anna, Roman, Neil, Ransom, Connie, and hundreds more in Boston - 2nd/July/2019 going to Firefly Arts Collective (a regional Burning Man in Vermont) with friends from Boston - 9th/July/2019 meeting Stephan, August, Subin, Maarten, Pablo, Louise, etc in Brussels in Belgium and drive to Luxembourg - 10th/July/2019 meeting the other friends like Jill, Devin, Alvaro, Nico, and dozens in Luxembourg then travel for a month until the beginning of August around Europe! Hitchhike-and-cross-country and camping, and so on!! - And will return back to Korea in the beginning of August/2019 My journey will be updated here: https://www.facebook.com/kim.dongryeong https://www.instagram.com/kim_dongryeong/ ------------------------- (Maybe because I didn't click Yes or No when people requested me for hosting, my response rate is poor. But I do host!) I like traveling. - Traveled around Australia for 45 days when I was 17 years old (30 days with a friend and 15 days alone) in 2002. We always stayed in hostels/backpackers and cooked ourselves. We haven't really gone to restaurants. It was a crazy adventure as 17 years old. That time, we booked hostels over phone. We took photos by film cameras and the only info source was a guide book. The internet was super slow and you had to go to an internet cafe. Our English was also very poor that time. We were just young babies! - Traveled around Korea for 30 days when I was 17 years old with a friend without any money in 2003. (Of course we didn't have Couchsurfing. But we were hosted almost always throughout the trip.) - Traveling around Europe for 5 months with a bicycle and a tent with a little money in 2012. After the bicycle travel finished, I still didn't have my own home or place. I sort of continued to travel-and-say for other 5 months more. So in total for 10 months I didn't have my own home and still didn't spend any for accommodation. - When I visited Boston for work in 2017, I was thinking to travel to cross the US to California, but I met some local young people on the street and was invited to their house parties. Then I started to stay with them in their house in Cambridge, Boston and went to a regional Burn FireFly festival and met other people from Boston. Then I stayed also with them. So eventually I stayed only in Boston and lived with local people that I didn't have any connection for three months. Also I would like to meet new/different people and learn or hear new/different things.