CURRENT MISSION

Finding out what the world is made of.

PHILOSOPHY

Checking out other peoples' philosophies and absorbing the bits that work for me.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've been on the site for a few years but actually only surfed one couch. That was in Budapest about 2010. I did get a friend in Tohoku, Japan to become a couchsurfing host by telling her my stories though.

One drawback of working and living in a backpacker hostel is I'm not allowed to compete with the business by offering a free spot to sleep in my room )-:

Interests

Hitchhiking around the world.
Soaking up foreign cultures.
Learning foreign languages.

• backpacking
• business
• languages
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez
Anything by Haruki Murakami

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hopping in a taxi in Mexico and saying "follow that bus!" since it left without me but with all my luggage.

Teach, Learn, Share

I seem to be fairly good at teaching languages one on one and that's also how I like to learn them. So I'm open to anyone who might want to do a little language interchange. My Spanish should be good enough to teach anyone who is at the very beginning. Or you can just pretend you're interested in languages and see which one of us knows the most words for "cheers" (-:

What I Can Share with Hosts

Hitchhiking stories and advice.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Laos, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Georgia, Mexico, Romania