CURRENT MISSION

To enjoy the ride.

ABOUT ME

There's two of us: Joshua and Adam.

We're always exploring: following dogs in Brooklyn, playing a giant tube map game in Berlin, doing the London Monopoly board. Even in our own town, Brighton, we are happy setting out the door on a random adventure, finding a new square, park, pub, whatever.

We were teaching English in the wonderful city of Tainan, Taiwan. Afterwards, we looped the Pacific rim seeing as many new cultures and countries as we could.

We are a couple but aren't at all bothered about the gay scene. It's such a small part of our identity and we can't really even be bothered to mention it on here but obviously if you are a homophobe you need to know this!

In terms of identity: what has been a nice insight lately is that we create our own, in the same way we all create our own reality. We could choose to be workers who are stressed about work or we could choose to be players in this big illusion and enjoy the playground of planet Earth. We choose the latter and hope to meet lots of you on our adventures...

PHILOSOPHY

Lately this has become much clearer - life doesn't have to be a stress. It can be a game, a ride, an adventure, a piece of theatre, whatever - but it is to be enjoyed and lived for the moment.

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Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We have travelled and surfed lots and now we're back we're excited to host instead.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We've surfed with some great people so far: ballerinas in Belgium; darlings in Dresden; a tattooist in Taichung; not to mention the meetups we've had with a Swedish horticulturist and a wine connoisseur in Olomouc.

Interests

Exploring; rating things has become an addiction (beers, artworks, films, cities, songs...); writing poetry; playful photography; 1970s disaster films; satc; experimental travel; the enneagram; eurovision; swimming in seas, lakes, rivers; meeting people and sharing stories and laughs; non-duality.

• dogs
• writing
• poetry
• photography
• dancing
• dining
• wine
• beer
• running
• pub crawls
• movies
• traveling
• socializing
• hiking
• camping
• surfing
• swimming
• psychology
• lakes
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

Towering Inferno and Poseidon Adventure for kitsch fun;
Olga and Shirley Valentine are our heroines;
Groundhog Day, American Beauty and Watership Down are our classics.
We change our playlist regularly depending on who we meet/where we are...
Favourite books are Cloud Atlas, spiritual literature including Eckhart Tolle´s Power of Now/A New Earth and stuff on non-duality and the enneagram.
Currently reading: Tartt's The Goldfinch & Frankl's Man's search for meaning.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Hot Springs (in Taroko Gorge, Taiwan and Budapest).
- Amazing food in Taiwanese night markets.
- Sleeping in capsules in Tokyo
- Meeting a beer giraffe in Dijon, France
- The Venice biennale 2011.
- Being thrown a Cherry Hyde gig in Montevideo
- Dancing with Cambodian kids in a monsoon
- Lion Rock hiking in Hong Kong
- Rescuing a sea turtle on Tioman island, Malaysia
- Driving camper vans in outback of Australia
- Eating poutine in a freezing Montreal
- Running from Beaky Brenda, the mysterious beastie of Montauk, Long Island USA

Teach, Learn, Share

Sustaining a positive mindset and enjoying the benefits of that... that would be our main area of expertise.

We're very much excited by positive psychology and give good 'strengths interviews' - so if you are eager to discover your core strengths (look up the VIA character strengths website to find out more) we're very happy to oblige.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Philippines, Romania, Slovenia, United States, Uruguay, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

New Zealand, Taiwan, United Kingdom

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