CURRENT MISSION

karma yoga, survive in nihilumbra (sorry), do stuff really, and enjoy (I try, really)

ABOUT ME

I love traveling! Right now I'm traveling with my good friend Mohamed with whom I've traveled many times before. In the picture, Mo is the dude in the middle and I'm on the right.

We flew over to Montreal in the summer to visit our friend Sara and made an extensive roadtrip up to Labrador and back down the coast with her. We then stayed a while with family and friends in western Massachusetts, helped a bit on the farm and traveled around a bit over there.
After that, as it had become too cold to hitchhike across (and hitching was way too difficult in the US), we flew over to Vancouver, and after a short visit to the Island, started heading down south for Mexico or further, trying to seize any opportunity we can.

PHILOSOPHY

searching...
Heading for something like:
Every "rule" should have a reason and anything without reason shouldn't matter. Though I do see the flaw that we sometimes just don't see the reason - in that case we hopefully find it once we break the rule ;) Sorry, just the first **** that came to my mind - I'll be glad to find new ones with you...
I love to find reasons to do stuff this way or that way!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

actually, until now, I didn't participate in couch surfing. rather, I had friends (or friends of friends) staying over whenever possible, and relied on the kindness of rides or locals when I went somewhere myself (or, as in most cases, my tent and some friends connections).
and, when we stay at other peoples houses, we love to help where we can and especially, to cook.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

only once, a girl that we met hitchhiking, took us to her host (with permission) in Rovaniemi (Finnland) at the edge to the artic circle - it was a really good experience, very kind Sussi!

update November 2013
We have now stayed with our first couchsurfing host and it was perfect! We shared several activities with her, so we got to see a bit of life in Seattle, and we also met her friends who were nice, too, and with whom we ended up staying even a bit longer!

Interests

Nature
Animals
Music
Cooking
Physics
Coding and Hacking
Figuring things out
Aikido
Juggling
Hiking and rock climbing
How to live life

• animals
• cooking
• yoga
• traveling
• juggling
• coding
• music
• trumpet
• hiking
• camping
• surfing
• rock climbing
• physics
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

eh, too temporary
the books that interested me most lately: du contrat social, Zarathustra, Ein Engel kam nach Babylon (Dürremat in General) and my last one, silly but great, Bukowsky's Women. Brecht and Tucholsky are all time favorites of mine. At the moment I'm reading Vonnegurt's Cat's Craddle.
Music really anything, used to (and still like to) listen to Ska, otherwise currently something between Breakbeat, hiphop, Reggae, Dub and Drum'n'Bass

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

It feels really bad picking one, I hope the other amazing things are not insulted if I name one, but a recent one was climbing up the Creux du Van in waist deep snow - the scenery was beautiful and the experience of trying to find the way up, while if you miss the snow would just collapse under your step, very thrilling.

Teach, Learn, Share

Right now it would be especially great to learn some more Spanish!

My skills are fairly random. I just learned how to bake a german grey bread or Landbrot (type of sourdough-rye). Would love to share that, though a sourdough starter takes some time...
Some nice foods, maybe, depending on taste - and always love to learn new ones! We were told lately we are good at inexpensive, but tasty, fresh and nutritious camp-fire/trangia dinners, if there's anything to teach about that.

Anyway, we do love cooking and the more people eat from it the happier we are, so that is what we can (almost) always share.

I would consider my strength in computer stuff and maybe some physics, not sure what I could teach about that but I'd be glad to help where necessary.

What I would love to learn currently would be different mushroom-types (I just learned the black trumpet and I love it) and wild nutrition in general, producing music on computers, the effects of different herbs, some farming knowledge and some carpentry skills. Basically I would like to learn, for as many things as possible, "how to do it yourself".

I'm also very curious for the different approaches to energies/energy flow in the human body, also those not explainable with contemporary physics.