Activist. Artist. Author. Entrepreneur. Love words and Silence. Spontaneous and serendipitous... except when denied my early morning coffee!!!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Joined in in 2007, I was introduced to what came naturally to my family... being hospitable. For so many people having a stranger in your home was terrifying and therefore impossible. But I set about Couchsurfing and explored California , San Francisco, Marin County, Mendocino, to way up North.
When arriving home in Cape Town, I hosted many people of all ages and all nationalities.

Interests

• books
• poetry
• architecture
• sketching
• environment
• human rights
• restoration
• mountains
• social justice
• cultural exchange
• walking in nature
• dog walking
• swimming in the sea
• author

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC
Boubacor Traore. Ani DiFranco. Derek Gripper. Ben Harper.

MOVIES
Absolute Beginners. V is for Vengeance.

BOOKS
Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda. Iron John, man and masculinity, by Robert Bly. David's Story, by Zoë Wicome. The Maine Woods, by Henry David Thoreau. The Wilder Shores of Marx: Journeys in a Vanishing World, by Anthony Daniels. My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. a Biography by
Coretta Scott King.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Stuck in the airport at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for 9 days... sleeping on benches, sneaking WiFi and meals in the Business class lounge, avoiding the authorities who wanted to send me home... Why? I had ordered a new passport but it had not arrived before my flight I took to Ethiopia. I was unable to enter on a temporary passport. Eventually my passport arrived. It was the first time that myself and my girlfriend had been travelling together! We were still getting to know eachother! So it was quite a challenging introduction to the man who would soon be father of our twin boys!

Teach, Learn, Share

Environmental awareness. Social Change. Cultural diversity in South Africa... "have's and have- not's"

What I Can Share with Hosts

Be flexible but... Keep your boundaries. Couchsurfing holds within its culture a practice of mutual respect.

Countries I’ve Visited

Botswana, Canada, England, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Philippines, South Africa, Swaziland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Wales, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, South Africa, United States