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Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
@CHESTER22
Member since 2008
CURRENT MISSION To Live an Honest life. ABOUT ME As a child, my father relocated our family to Africa for work. Being very impressionable at the time, this was a great cultural experience and shock for my young self. These early experiences instilled upon me a true sense of adventure, and real respect for cultures outside my own. Eventually my family and I moved back to suburban Ontario, where we resumed a rather normal lifestyle. Once I graduated College, I moved out to Toronto, where I would try my hand in the photography industry. This all went fine and dandy for a few years, until I realized that I was lacking that sense of adventure that was bestowed upon me in my younger years. So I packed up and set off to work, live and venture around this magnificent land of Canada! Over the past few years, I have lived and worked from West to East and everywhere in-between this beautiful country! I experienced the raw beauty of the Newfoundland landscape and its people. A character, which is shaped by the unforgiving immensity of the North Atlantic. I have toiled in the cut-blocks of Northern BC and Alberta. Planting whole forests tree by tree. I have climbed up and down orchard ladders 1,000,000 times picking Okanagan fruit for a hungry planet. The splendor of a Northern Ontario winter will chill you to the bone, and the people of Thunder Bay will warm your heart! This is such a beautiful country, but I have a wanderlust that has possessed my mind. I need to venture out to new and wonderful horizons. Coming to a couch near youâ¦â¦â¦ PHILOSOPHY Its Turkeys all the way down!
Interested in Adventure Sports
Fluent in English
Pioneer Badge
17 Vouches
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I have many fulfilling experiences as a couch host when I lived in St. John's and here in Thunder Bay
Music, Movies, and Books
Share your favourite flicks, tunes, and words with me!
One Amazing Thing I've Done
I launched a volunteer bicycle repair shop in the city of Thunder Bay. The Community Spokes Bicycle Project is dedicated to teaching the community about bicycle repairs in our well-equipped shop located at the Lakehead University campus.
My Interests
Canada, Bicycles, Extreme Weather, Shelters, Camping, Hard work, Lazy afternoons, Science Documentaries, David Attenborough, Audio Books/Lectures/Podcasts, Rock Climbing, Crafts, Lyrics, Canada, Learning, Gin and Tonic, Nature, Smiling, You!