John Rio's Photo

Partially Verified

  • Payment verified
  • Phone not verified
  • Government ID not verified

Accepting Guests

  • 36% response rate
  • Last login 4 minutes ago

Join Couchsurfing to see John’s full profile.

Overview

  • 113 references 97 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning Russian
  • 32, Male
  • Member since 2014
  • Traveler
  • Master of Education
  • From Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Profile 100% complete

About Me

Hitchhiker. Cyclist. Writer.

⚠️Can't host at the moment. travelling.⚠️

My Insta: trust_the_road

About me:

I travel since I'm 19 but for me traveling only got out of scale since 2022. This is when i graduated from university and finally accepted that this recent life i've got is reserved for traveling. Maybe I change in the future but I am just to much in love with the road to work 9-5 or do other things, that keep me away from the road for a long time.
I just successfully finished a bicycle trip from germany to Capetown, south africa.

Recently i spent a few months in china with my GF and now we're exploring SEA together. While traveling I'm working on my 2nd book recently. Here's my 1st one:

link to my 1st book.

https://www.edition-schaumberg.shop/p/per-anhalter-durch-die-pandemie

Here are some newspaper articles about my previous journeys:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.westfalen-blatt.de/amp/owl/bielefeld/jan-rose-fahrrad-reise-balkan-jordanien-athiopien-afrika-2790945

https://www.spa.gov.sa/w1863532

https://www.express.de/shared-static/dumont-consent/index.html?param=eyJyZWRpcmVjdFVybCI6Ii9ucncvamFuLWF1cy1iaWVsZWZlbGQtMjUtMDAwLWtpbG9tZXRlci1wZXItYW5oYWx0ZXItZHVyY2gtcnVzc2xhbmQtODY2MDY/Y2I9MTY4MDM4NDkwNjQ1MiIsInJlZmVycmVyIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmRlLyIsInN1YmRvbWFpbiI6Ind3dyJ9

https://www.westfalen-blatt.de/owl/per-anhalter-durch-sibirien-2524886?pid=true

https://www.nw.de/lokal/bielefeld/mitte/23195086_Bielefelder-erlebt-waehrend-der-Corona-Pandemie-Abenteuer-seines-Lebens.amp.html

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I am Here on Couchsurfing, because I want to meet people, Who also Love the World, Who also don't forget, that we are all from the Same place, doesn't Matter which Religion we follow, which skin colour we have or which Sexuality and people we Love the Most.

The World is beautifull, humanity is beautifull and i want to Share this opinion with everyone!

Interests

See above

  • culture
  • literature
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • hiking
  • camping
  • hitchhiking
  • food
  • trekking
  • people
  • storytelling
  • sharing
  • love
  • sunrises
  • sunsets
  • writing diary
  • hitchhiking.

Music, Movies, and Books

Music really depends on the mood. every mood let enjoy me another kind of music. In fact every genre has its treasures and its bullshit. As long as it's produces with passion I'll like it

As I wrote, i Love all Kind of books. Tell me a title of a good book and I'll probably read it.
Next to classical authors Like Franz Kafka one Guy changed my opinion about what a good book have to be Like: Gregory David Roberts "Shantaram" changed Not only my opinion of modern literature, it even changed my View of Life in some aspects. It is a wonderful Story about Love, friendship, adventure, Philosophy, self-discovery, self-contempt, different cultures etc. Read it. You'll Love it!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Cycled 19.000km from Germany to South Africa within 20 months🚲

Hitchhiked near to 65.000Km in my life so far:

- more than 19.000km from Germany to middle East and back
-more than 25.000Km across Russia from Saint Petersburg to the Far East (Vladiwostok) and back during the first wave of Covid
- 8000Km from Germany to the Red Sea (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
- more than 17.000Km in european countries

Teach, Learn, Share

OPEN MINDED FOR EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cambodia, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, Estonia, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Macedonia, Malawi, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Viet Nam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Russian Federation

Join Couchsurfing to see John’s full profile.

My Groups