To meet new people and make traveling even better. I want to get to know the country that I visit and never learned much from staying at hotels. I prefer homely surroundings and the people in them.

These are a few of the writers that have made my soul sigh (in awe): Rainer Maria Rilke, Clarice Lispecter, Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, Nicolai Gogol, Raymond carver, Connie Palmen, Leo Tolstoj, Hermann Hesse, David foster Wallace, Zadie Smith, Susan Sontag, Ben Lerner, Fernando Pessoa, Willem Frederik Hermans, Albert Camus, Heather Havrilesky.