I'm Uwe, 49, and with me I have Pam, 47, Niclas, 22 and Miriel, 19 years old! We're a small, typical (and then again not typical 😁) German family located somewhere in the nowhere in the Westerwald (western woods) region of Germany

We haven't lived in bigger cities for ages and hence, we never hosted much (mostly stranded and desperate Cologne visitors for which claim though we gave them a great time 😅). Now we moved even further into the nothing and we don't have a comfy guest room anymore 🥺, but just a Couch...

But that being said: Whoever you are, we're quite likely interested in hosting you! If hosting doesn't work out, let's meet and talk and exchange...

Hablo un poco de español, y con manos y pies puedo hacer una conversación casi normal. Sobreviví en America Central 😅...
!انا عايز اتعلم عربي
😅🤏 وانا عارف شوية خلاص
Я только понимаю по-русски очень, очень плохо 😮‍💨!
Malheureusement, je parle français seulement un très, très petit peu 🤏

Politically:
1. Our house is a place free from racism, sexism, homophobia, religious fanatism, extremism in general... Haters are NOT welcome.
2. 🇺🇦🕊☮️🇺🇦! До біса з Путіним 🖕!
3. Очень четко: к черту Путина🖕! Однако мы не будем отвергать русских, потому что они русские! Добро пожаловать в наш дом 🪆!

🚨🚨🚨 We had to learn by now, that it totally differentiates us, that we refuse to use Whatsapp! Take note! You're in when you use Signal, but Couchsurfing App tends to work sufficiently well for communication, else email.

I can also be found under https://www.bewelcome.org/members/TuNixGut

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

A general, deep and honest interest in other people, other cultures and other living philosophies. That goes for all four of us!
But I guess, I'm the most talkative 😅.

Personal Bucket List (of Uwe, the only one in the family who really has that "wanderlust")
Probably even roughly in order 🤔, Middle East countries, Central Asian Countries (the *istans), South America (esp. the Western part with the Andes), South Central Africa, a million regions more...

Interests

• music festivals
• languages
• cultures
• people

Music, Movies, and Books

Music is the topic where the openness, curiosity and deep interest I have in ALL other areas disappears 😬. I'm deep into Heavy Metal and I don't usually listen to anything else.
I'm also regularly going to music festivals all over Europe.

Movies: Anything that tells a story and is not just a series of special effects

Pretty much all sorts of books, but esp. Terry Pratchett and Stephen King. Plus Calvin and Hobbes comics.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I'm still on it...

✅ Find the perfect wife
✅ Give birth to two amazing kids
✅ Have the best job ever
🚫 OpenSource a physical product that aids people in need
🚫 Retire

✅ Watch a volcano erupt from less than 3 km away
🚫 Stand right next to a lave lake or stream
✅ Sit on a rock in a jungle and watch wildlife crawl by
✅ Sleep under the stars in a Desert
✅ Watch the sunrise from Mount Sinai
✅ Float in the Dead Sea
🚫 Stand inside a giant sequoia grove

✅ Eat a camel burger
🚫 Eat guinea pig
🚫 Have a full Georgian supra feast with a tamada

✅ Get invited for tea in a Zabbaleen bar in Cairo's Garbage City, return years later to bring a thank you present

✅ Walk the Shibuya crossing
✅ Survive the most crammed Tokyo rush-hour subway
✅ Work the longest in a Japanese company
✅ Visit a Foxconn production line
✅ Experience Huaqiangbei
🚫 Attend the Maker Faire in Shenzhen

🚫 Sleep in a self-made igloo
🚫 See the Northern Lights
🚫 Kayak between icebergs

🚫 Watch bioluminescence
🚫 Watch the Great Migration crossing the Mara River
🚫 Sit right next to a mountain gorilla
🚫 Snorkel with manta rays

🚫 Celebrate Día de los Muertos
✅ Follow a day of Ramadan with friends
🚫 Eat Sirog at a Zoroastrian fire temple
✅ Visit Petra
✅ Visit Tikal
🚫 Visit the Taj Mahal
🚫 Walk Registan in Samarkand
🚫 Visit the churches of Tigray
🚫 Visit the Danakil Depression
🚫 Ride the Transsibirian Railway
✅ Ride a Guatemalan Chicken Bus

🚫 Explore an underground city
✅ Sleep in a hobbit hut

🚫 Attend a village wedding in rural India
🚫 Media detox at a monastery for at least one week

🚫 Attend a rocket launch
🚫 Experience Zero Gravity

✅ Crowdsurf a Wall Of Death
✅ Attend a Heavy Metal Show in Africa
🚫 Attend a Heavy Metal Show in South America
🚫 Attend a Heavy Metal Show in Asia

✅ Pick up a Police man hitchhiker
🚫 Collect 100 CouchSurfing guests

Me and the other three of us managed to find some truly amazing friends while hosting and surfing (and sometimes aside of it) and we're deeply grateful.

Teach, Learn, Share

There's nothing special actually, that I can teach 🤔. I'm an old man trying to pretent I'm still young which leads to some funny experiences I can share though 😅. Software and hardware development, product management, a special type of music, traveling, cultures and languages, ...
I might be able to help you in terms of a) planning and optimizing what they call a "Smart Home" and b) surfing a cleaner web leaving less footprints (but I get it, nobody cares, nowadays 😅, fair enough).

Me and all four of are eager to play funny board and card games!

What I Can Share with Hosts

If I have some of my family with me we love to cook for hosts. That unfortunately doesn't work for me solo as I'm the most terrible cook you can possibly imagine 🫣😓.

So the thing I can share best is perspectives, some stories and a deep interest in yours.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany