Just a GEEK who fell in love with the Outdoors.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

To meet new friends and create connections with local people who are familiar with the area where I'm visiting, and help me explore it. And perhaps share each other's adventure stories.

I'm a hugger, so expect a hug from me at some point in our meeting. I believe this is a basic universal human connection, in fact touch is the first language even before we formulated words. And if you're afraid of it, then you're not here to meet and connect, you're just passing by. What's the point of traveling and meeting people if you never really get connected. So if you're afraid of touch (even a shake hands, hold hands, high five or fist bumps), communication is the key, and I would respect you more if you're vocal about it. 'Cause I'm surprise I still meet people who are afraid of touch, even a fist bumps.

Also I'm a GEEK who fell in love with the Outdoors, so expect a lot of pop culture references and outdoor topics from me.

I used to live in California for almost 10 years but I haven't explored the rest of the United States before. Then I went back to my home country and after 5 years, I'm back here in the US to explore more of this beautiful country. So I'm embarking on a "🇺🇸 50-State Bucket List" road trip travel. From state to state and experience its cities have to offer, even for a quick stay based on my budget of course.

And while traveling, I'm actually researching and learning new things about outdoors, environmental pre-cautions and eco-cultural sustainability. Something I can implement on my green awareness advocacy in Southeast Asia.

ALSO, I am looking for individuals (specially introverts, city dwellers and indoor people) and challenge them to try going outdoors on an adventure activity in the area (ie. paddleboarding for the first time, or hiking a mountain). OR challenge those who are already into outdoors to take their skills to their next level (e.g. 10 miles paddling nonstop, hiking the tallest mountain in town, or perhaps rock climbing a difficult cliff route that they haven't tried yet, etc). I would then film and make a short documentary of the whole adventure, for a cause. With a theme and purpose of spreading awareness about being active, the outdoor and environment itself. Sounds fun? So are you up on challenging yourself, while saving the planet?

MESSAGE TO HOSTS:
So right now I'm traveling via car (yes it's an exciting road trip) , for now, also I only travel to cities where I have some freelance IT gigs (yes I still need to work to continue my traveling). But sometimes my client canceled for the last minute, which means I also have to postponed, delayed or re-schedule my travel to that city.

Or sometimes, I travel to some cities via plane on a budget, so I normally booked the cheapest flight and setup a request for that date to the CS hosts. But sometimes my flight gets adjusted a few days later (or earlier). Depending on whether the flight got delayed/cancelled (that's what I get for cheap flights, thank you Frontier) and rebooked for later dates.

I also have to consider how busy the dates are (ie: holidays and festivals) which I tried to avoid 'cause what I want to experience is the typical day/life on that city without any major events happening.

So whether it would be a few days later (or earlier), I always tried my best to inform the host about this sudden change of plans.

MESSAGE TO SURFERS:
Couchsurfing has helped me a lot on my travel and experiencing the world has to offer. So I would love to give back to community and starts accepting guests as much as I can.

兴趣

See above or below...

• outdoor activities
• outdoor sports
• outdoors activities
• outdoor adventures

音乐、电影和书籍

Smooth Jazz, Easy Listening, Love Songs, New Wave, Instrumental, Slow Rock, RnB

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Paddling at the Golden Gate (ignorantly) without any research, proper plan or even a lifevest... Just so you know Golden Gate bay is a very dangerous area for paddleboarding: tricky waves, strong current, gutsy wind, big waterspouts, foggy zero visibilty, being hit by kiteboarders or worse, getting capsized by BIG ships. I got lucky to get back alive, and now have aa more profound respect for the power of the nature.

UPDATE =====
Been traveling more recently and doing outdoor adventures while cosplaying or wearing superhero costume (I'm a Geek remember), just see my photos to see what I mean. Also I made a short documentary series about this, to spread awareness about mother Earth. Wondering where to see those adventure videos? Ask me ;)

教，学，和分享

IT and other techy stuff... Plus piloting drones (if I brought it).

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

Traveling experience, insights about the other side of the world, making money hacks, rock climbing gear, Bachata dancing, documentary collaboration.

我游览过的国家

France, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

我居住过的国家

France, Japan, Philippines, United States