ABOUT ME

I LOVE to travel. That is my sole objective in life - to travel, to mingle, to meet people and be lost in wilderness. Where and when I can not make it to a place in real, I spend days reading about it and planning trips and imagining about it.

PHILOSOPHY

Independence & Curiosity. Break the world down into friends - one stranger at a time.
Live life like there is no tomorrow, but don't forget there probably will be one. And it maybe a rainy day then. :)

Что привело меня на Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have had my fair share of guests and I love it more and more every time. This by definition maybe the most welcoming, friendly, progressive fun filled group of people on the planet and I am proud to be a part of it.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfing is a way of life for me. I have hosted really wonderful people who gave me back much more than a mere couch that I gave them. I feel meeting people is the best part of travel, and couchsurfing is the best way to meet some of the best people in a place.

Интересы

Read about places, watch lots of movies and read books, follow a wide range of music, not too much into sports. Love hiking, cycling, bouldering, and am also an inexperienced scuba diver lol.

Always interested in new cocktails.

I love to try new food and can go to any distance to try something new.

• books
• dining
• cocktails
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• skiing
• sports
• mountains
• scubadiving

Музыка, кино и книги

Wide range of movies: The Matrix, Pulp Fiction, Snatch, Amelie, Its a Wonderful Life, Double Indemnity, 12 Angry Men, Casablanca, Ten Commandments, Titanic, Shutter Island, Its a Beautiful Mind..the list goes wide & deep. I love almost everything of the Coen brothers & Guy Ritchie, as I love to watch, understand, dream, forget and rediscover David Lynch.

Music is strictly as per the mood. But can listen to Big Band songs, smooth Jazz and classic Rock & Hans Zimmer's soundtracks anytime. Other times, I might and do enjoy a bit of electronic like Moby or even some dubstep.

I used to read books as if I was born in the 1800s. Seriously. I started to read Chaucer, Elizabethan poets, Pope etc all the way down to Tennyson and stopped. Dickens and Hardy for novels. And Twain - Huck Finn,Jim & Tom taught old school American values to a 4th grader living on the other side of the planet. I do read more contemporary literature from time to time, I like reading memoirs and books on abstract thought.

Классная вещь, которую я сделал(-а)

I think life should be filled with small amazing things, wrong turns instead of a big crazy act.

But once I hiked without any direction, through dense forest and hills for 4 hours in search of an elusive waterfall but in the end all that I found was a very big stream. It was a harsh summer and the waterfall had dried up.
On my way back, a dog started stalking me which initially had me scared but then I realized both me & the dog were lost in the forest and the dog hoped I knew the route. I was in that deep!!
Finally after many detours, I find some brook and followed it and ended up back near humanity (felt like a pioneer) and there I could see the dog finally happily reunited with his "family". And as they leaped around with joy, I felt the day was far from being wasted. Then the dogs & pups walked me back to my car. It was pretty amazing. Adventure & melodrama rolled into one!!

Another incident is about the amazing help you get from strangers. I had a flat tire in Puerto Rico in an absolute backroad and out of nowhere this non-English speaking farmer pulls over, takes a look at the situation, fetches a heavy duty screwjack, helps me with the spare and drives off before I have a chance to thank him. That silent guy alone kicked out whatever cynicism I had in me.

Где я побывал(-а)

Canada, China, Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Japan, Mexico, Nepal, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, United States

Где я жил(-а)

India, Japan, United States