Hello friend 🤗

I'm Aran from Canada. Currently, I'm on an open-ended adventure around the world with my boyfriend Aris. For the last 2 years we've been testing out the nomadic lifestyle, travelling through Europe, Central America, and now Asia with our tiny 6KG backpacks 👫

Our travel route for 2025:

📌Sri Lanka
📌Singapore
📌Malaysia
📌Thailand
📌Hong Kong
📌Japan
📌Canada
📌Albania
📌Greece

We're looking forward to meeting you along the way 💫

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I see Couchsurfing as an opportunity to enrich my life and the lives of my fellow travelers through shared resources, comradery, and spirit of adventure 🏄‍♀️

Interests

• human rights
• coffee
• yoga
• massage therapy
• meditation
• walking
• minimalism
• podcasts
• hiking
• hitchhiking
• mindfulness
• stand up comedy
• comedy
• animal rights
• veganism
• vipassana
• ayurveda
• workaway
• spanish
• slow travel
• housesitting
• camino de santiago
• karma
• zero waste
• thai yoga massage
• nomadism
• women's rights

Music, Movies, and Books

I love stand up comedy and comedy podcasts. My favourite comedians include Louis CK, Anthony Jeselnik, Annie Lederman, Neal Brennan, Ali Siddiq, Sam Morril, Theo Von... the list goes on and on.

One series/human that has really impacted me is Parts Unknown by Anthony Bourdain. I can recommend his book Kitchen Confidential as well as the following non-fiction works:

📖 Non-Violent Communication by Marshal B. Rosenberg
📖 Cosmos by Carl Sagan
📖 Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan
📖 The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
📖 Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

I can also recommend anything written by Yuval Harari, Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Pollan, Katy Bowman, and Jared Diamond.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've seen and done many amazing things in my life which I won't brag about here. Instead, I'll share a few unachieved goals that hopefully soon I'll be checking off of my list ✔✔✔

⏹ Be comfortable in all situations
⏹ Get a motorcycle license
⏹ Hike the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
⏹ Attend an Abe-Hicks Alaskan cruise
⏹ Attend a non-bullshit Ayahuasca ceremony
⏹ Apprentice in a specialty café
⏹ Create an unpretentious, affordable vegan restaurant, ideally on wheels
⏹ Create a massive Couchsurfing house with daily communal meals and activities

Plus, here's a few of my dream travel destinations, in alphabetical order:

📌Antarctica
📌Ethiopia
📌Iran
📌Mauritius
📌Myanmar
📌Oman
📌Pakistan

What I Can Share with Hosts

My Couchsurfing hosts can look forward to my sense of humour and inquisitive disposition. I love to go for walks, cook vegan food, and I am happy to help out my host in any way I can. If you want to practice your English, French, or Spanish I would love to be your conversation partner. I am responsible, trustworthy, and will treat you and your home with the highest respect and gratitude 🙏

Om Shanti~

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Bahamas, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, England, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Northern Ireland, Portugal, Scotland, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Iceland, South Korea, Spain