CURRENT MISSION

live light and shine bright !

ABOUT ME

I am a pathological traveler ! When the dust hits my shoes, I've got the urge to move !

I grew up in Germany and Vienna, Austria. Hit the road at 17 and was without a fixed abode or address for many many years, couchsurfing long before the site, or even the internet. Traveled for about 7 years in the Americas, then another five in Asia, before eventually making a base for a few years in Bali.

I love experiencing and encountering other cultures and traditions and am very interested in philosophy and comparative religion.

In the beginning 2007 I moved to the island of Stromboli, where I have been spending most of my summers since early childhood. Still hit the road for several months a year, so my couch is not always available.

At the moment I am involved in realizing my dream of a fire art gathering and festival on the ever active volcano I live on. I have been playing with fire for over ten years and am inviting the many friends in that field I have met over the years to come visit me for a creative holiday.

PHILOSOPHY

live and let live by the golden rule

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

really enjoy hosting visitors to the magical little piece of earth I am blessed to call home. find the kind of people who choose to travel via cs especially interesting and outgoing and find the whole project a wonderful idea.

of course I also enjoy the possibility of making a local connection on my own walkabouts, which are frequent...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

have hosted a couple of times, and had positive experiences and also have made some very interesting and useful contacts, when on the road...

Interests

travel, people, language, object manipulation, dance, tattoos, diving, celebrating, vulcanoes, solar eclipses, nature, philosophy, mythology, psychedelics, comparative religion, reading, understanding, laughing, dreaming, loving,...

• arts
• tattoos
• festivals
• dancing
• cooking
• yoga
• running
• reading
• traveling
• juggling
• music
• scuba diving
• history
• languages
• religion

Music, Movies, and Books

enjoy all three, a lot, so hard to say...
films by Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Roberto Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Jim Jarmusch, Federico Fellini, The Coen Brothers, Michael Cimino, Jean-Jacques Beineix, John Landis, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen and many more

books by Robert Anton Wilson, Tom Robbins, Jeff Noon, Roger Zelazny, Kurt Vonnegut, Ken Kesey, Thomas Pynchon, Gregory David Roberts, Tolkien, Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson and so many, many more

music I can not even begin to list, like it all, if it's good. though I would say I don't care much for electronica

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

if I had to choose one, no I can't, probably witnessing a total solar eclipse, and being part of organizing a big festival around it....

or maybe taking part in the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, in India in 2001, the largest gathering of people for a common purpose in history to date....

or being part of the longest running experiment exploring the combined possibilities of music, psychedelics and consciousness...

floating weightlessly amongst manta rays over the world's healthiest and diverse coral reefs in South East Sulawesi and the Molukkas...

or just seeing the volcano behind my house erupting lava hundreds of meters into the night sky whipped by lightening fromthe dense ash cloud surrounding it....

Teach, Learn, Share

can teach:
poi and staff fire play, sphere contact juggling, multiball palmspinning, SCUBA diving....

eager to learn:
Yoga, languages, cooking and about anything interesting you may have to share

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Botswana, Cambodia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Fiji, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Kenya, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Thailand, United States

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