CURRENT MISSION hey ABOUT ME I will be brief. I am a happy guy who is thoroughly interested in other cultures, history and outlooks. I am not looking for much except a friendly welcome and some damn good conversation. Next on the lists are Iran, Sri Lanka, North Spain, Alabnia and West Africa. PHILOSOPHY Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain. Don't sacrifice your best days so you can have a double garage!
Interested in Adventure Sports
Interested in Coffee
Fluent in English
Learning French
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING well my place in yours and of course I am a happy-go-lucky, clean guy who loves talking and socialising with anyone and everyone.
Music, Movies, and Books
I really can't write down all the books, music and movies (in that order) that I've loved and enjoyed. Some quick examples of writers: Camus, Nabakov, Coetzee, Garcia Marquez, Celine, Orwell, Huxley, Dickens, Beckett music: The Silver Jews, The National, Bob Marley, Titus Andronicus, Stevie Wonder, Motown, Aretha, Louis Armstrong, Bowie Movies: Once Upon a Time in America, Big Fish, Dumb and Dumber, 2001, Star Wars, Jaws, Indiana Jones, Departures
One Amazing Thing I've Done
Working on Indian Reservations in Brazil, visiting North Korea. Spending a glorious week in East Timor. Climbing the Andes. Being in Tibet. Entering Northern Uganda. Seeing Orcas in Canada, Being on the coffee farms of Colombia, chimps in Uganda, lions in Africa and orangutans in Borneo. Bavaria in April, Serbia, Eastern Europe in general. New York in glorious May.
My Interests
travelling, being other places, all sports, reading great novels and history, anthropology, conversing.