Open-minded adventure time seeker. Sauna and ice-bathing fanboy. Master of showing around and chilling together.

I like an intensity. A few years traveling became my passion and the main drive of stepping out of comfort zone, and I started to spend most of the spare time on traveling and getting ready for new trips. I expected to visit a single country that year, but it escalated quickly and I`ve traveled to 19 countries in 2017, mostly solo and hitchhiking at cold nights, under the rain or aggressive sun. I have learned to trust my life and home to strangers who were usually very kind to me.

I prefer to host rather than being hosted. I'm too lazy to write all these nice requests, which you send me. I appreciate it and do my best to accept all if I can! Also, I'm lazy to read the long ones so keep it concise :D

While traveling, I always prefer to do CS, because it is the best way to discover the city, the culture and the people. Apart from that, you are able to enjoy and have a different experience with locals.

Occasionally I post my travel pictures on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yurii_andrusiak/

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

1. Find my travel buddies for Asia/Latin America/ round-the-world trips.
2. Payback the hospitality I got from other people
3. Offer some gin tonic/borsch to you if available or/and grab beers outside

Also, I'd love to learn about other countries, cultures, life stories but the above-mentioned reasons are dominating!

Interests

Travelling, hitchhiking, snowboarding, kayaking, photography, history, cultures, languages, nature and computer science

Music, Movies, and Books

The Game of Thrones

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Hitchhiked around the Baltic Sea during the week
- Survived on Chinese TV show
- Climbed the Great Wall of China. That was freakin' amazing!
- Stuck on border for a whole night and got to the airport 5 min before the gate's been closed thanks to hitchhiking

Teach, Learn, Share

- I can cook for you some national dishes like the borsch, a delicious Ukrainian beetroot soup with cabbage and meat. That's my favorite!
- I can give you hitchhiking tips.

I would love to learn
- Spanish, Portuguese
- Sailing

What I Can Share with Hosts

Experiences, things related to my culture or the places I have been.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, China, Estonia, Hungary, Ukraine