Just spent 6 weeks in Pakistan, now in Bangkok for a little work and exploring.

I Grew up in sweet-as New Zealand and call that my number 1 home. As much as I love NZ, I love to sift around the world just as much as learning my craft, sharing the good times and laughing up a care free chuckle.

I'm part German, part Indonesian and full New Zealander.

I love the feeling of climbing hills and running down them just as much. I like eating ripe tomatoes in the summer time, especially w fresh thyme & feta. Fresh in-season produce is best and unbeatable. Food is important, the craft, the flavour, the nutrition as well as the space in which we consume and enjoy it.

Fishing is something i enjoy a lot - the chill time, the thrill time and the fresh cuisine that we make of it. Skiing fresh powder is like playing with clouds. Eating street food is one of my greatest hobbies, Anthony Bourdain knew what was up. Hiking for days through wilderness and talking to locals, one can never be humbled enough by the beauty of one's surroundings.

I like green tea but also like a good freshly brewed black coffee. Fresh mountain air or the salty goodness of sea spray but not on my camera lens. The waning glow and lit up skies with a nice wash around my feet, a tripod and my camera, lovely moments for landscape photography or cruising around taking my camera for a walk shooting the world as the art that i see. IG @xelasuave for the most current of my life's happenings.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

One of the coolest CS experiences was car surfing with some people that couchsurfed at mine and then couchsurfing with them at another couchsurfers place where there were 10 other couchsurfers and then hitching all the way back across the country with another couchsurfer that I met at another couchsurfers place. That was a lot of fun layers of couchsurfing and all that in my home country of New Zealand. What a way to see the country, from the perspective and fresh eyes of a traveller. Totally unexpected & unplanned and that's why it was awesome.

Couchsurfing has the potential to blow your mind in ways that aren't predictable and all because of the spirit and force of the giving nature of the community. The more we all give to the community the more we get out of it.

Interests

Bonanzarific heirloom tomatoes and devouring them with loved ones.

Camera in hand and tongue in cheek, roaming a foreign street, food I see, food I seek, it better be good to eat.

Cuban Cigars & live music

Ultralight backpacking

• architecture
• photography
• cooking
• fishing
• hiking
• camping
• language
• bikepacking

Music, Movies, and Books

The Power of Now

New Zealand Music, DnB, Reggae, World, Cuban, Punk, Indy, jazz.

Welcome to the Sticks, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dumb & Dumber.

Film Festivals

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Quit my job and decided to join my sister and some others on a bikepacking trip around Tasmania. I learned to love the simplicity of cycling, eating and camping then doing it all over again everyday. To travel under one's own steam is cheap, fun, tough, joyous, exhausting, painful and exciting all at the same time. It makes road trips by car pale in comparison.

Teach, Learn, Share

"Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now what power does it have?" Eckhart Tolle

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Montenegro, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niue, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Peru, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United States, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Germany, New Zealand, United States

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