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Lafayette, Louisiana, United States
@LOUIS9
Member since 2011
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving Arrive without traveling See all without looking Do all without doing 👇🏻👇🏻 👇🏻👇🏻 👇🏻👇🏻 👇🏻👇🏻 👇🏻 👍🏻 http://www.editions-unicite.fr/auteurs/BANCE-Louis/les-rires-de-samyaza/index.php CURRENT MISSION Then bring me wine, the banquet bring ; Man was not form'd to live alone : I'll be that light, unmeaning thing That smiles with all, and weeps with none. ABOUT ME Born in Paris, he was known to have been a restless soul, traveling extensively on three continents before his death PHILOSOPHY The highest pleasure (tranquility and freedom from fear) was obtained by knowledge, friendship, and living a virtuous and temperate life.
Interested in Animals
Fluent in English
Learning Creole
Pioneer Badge
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
Ἰδού, ἡμεῖς ἀφήκαμεν πάντα, καὶ ἠκολουθήσαμέν COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen ; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Music, Movies, and Books
Authors : 1) Joseph de Maistre 2) Jules Michelet 3) Raymond Aron 4) Chateaubriand 5) Jacques Bainville 6) Julius Evola 7) Feydeau 8) All poetry from the 16th century until the publication in 1933 of La Quête de Joie by Patrice de la Tour du Pin (mainly Dubus, Gautier, Samain, Le Cardonnel, François Coppée, Verlaine et Rimbaud) 9) Gospel of Thomas 10) Nikolai Gogol 11) Schopenhauer 12) Marcus Aurelius 13) Oscar Wilde 14) Nabokov 15) Jean Calvin 16) Maurice Barrès 17) Bossuet 18) Huysmans 19) Victor Hugo 20) Rousseau... Montaigne... 21) Louis XI - Le Rosier des guerres 22) Osho 23) Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène 24) L'Imitation de Jésus-Christ (trad. Lamennais) 25) Senancour Painters : Gustave Moreau, Sécession Viennoise, Spilliaert, l'École de Paris, les Pré-Raphaélites, Peder Mørk Mønsted. Art : Le tombeau de Philippe Pot. Games : Abe Oddworld, CupHead, Bad Mojo, Bioshock 2, Resident Evil 2, Worms Armageddon, Age of Empires II, Pharaon Gold, Metal Slug, Super Mario World, Mario Kart, Tekken 3, Tekken 6, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, Tintin au Tibet, The Last of Us Part. II, Hitman 2, The Quarry, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, Pokemon (Yellow). В этой жизни умирать не ново, Но и жить, конечно, не новей. Films : 1) Faisons un rêve, Guitry 2) Les Enfants du Paradis, Carné 3) La Maman et la Putain, Eustache 4) La Dolce Vita, Fellini 5) Ma nuit chez Maud, Rohmer
One Amazing Thing I've Done
BE BORN All North American states or provinces visited : Maine. Vermont. New Hampshire. Massachusetts. Connecticut. Rhode Island. Delaware. New York. D.C. Maryland. New Jersey. South Carolina. Georgia. Florida. Alabama. Louisiana. Mississippi. Tennessee. Arkansas. Missouri. Oklahoma. Texas. California. Utah. Wyoming. Illinois. Colorado. Pennsylvania. Virginia. Florida. Maine. Technically, I spent a night at the Charlotte airport for a layover. + Québec and Ontario. But I still have Idaho on my to-do list (I'd like to explore Idaho badly). AND I would have liked to go to the Tucson Astronomy Center.
Teach, Learn, Share
I could not agree more
What I Can Share With Hosts
Mutual forgiveness of each Vice Do what you will, this Life's a Fiction And is made up of Contradiction.
My Interests
I believe that knowledge is the beginning of happiness.