你好呀! 你好嘛! and 안녕!

I’m on a trip in March through Beijing, Shenzhen, (maybe Guangzhou, if there’s time), Hong Kong and Seoul/Songdo.

It’s my first time in these countries and I want to meet with local Couchsurfers to find out what makes them special, and what interesting things might be hidden in them.

Happy to go for a walk or bike ride, share a meal or drinks, or anything you like to do.

Also, it’s my birthday soon! Let’s celebrate 😆🫶🫰

CURRENT MISSION

back to the drawing board

ABOUT ME

Someone at the festival said I am a "likeable weird," and I think that's fair.

My map is so filled with saved places it's no longer functional.

From startups to mega corporations not settling on a career.

PHILOSOPHY

"...to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have a disproportional number of close friends from Couchsurfing.

Too poor to travel during university, we started out hosting surfers weekly in our 6 person flat and became a hostel. That was in 2013-14, South End Boston (shout out Wally's jazz club). In 2015 I traveled through Greece and that Summer toured Western Europe, CSing every night, biking from town to town and became officially untethered. Somehow I ended up in Berlin, where I now longer term Couchsurf since 6 years.

Pre-COVID I traveled every week but I still try to meet up with the curious souls. Everyone I've met here seems like distant relatives that one day I will see, all together, like that last scene in Big Fish when Ewan McGregor carries his father to the river. *spoiler alert* https://youtu.be/RAvoR20o9s4

兴趣

Getting lost on my bike, surviving generational catastrophe, hidden places, Fusion festival!, subplots, being uncomfortable, ice dip, Finnish sauna, feminism, meditation, crescendos, logic, card games, metaphors, the stars and the unknown.

but most of all: people who create

• social experiments
• delighting people
• dancing into the morning
• making a mess in my kitchen
• trading jokes and riddles
• writing notes i never read
• engineering camp sites
• doctorate in drinking games
• robot takeover
• ice cold water
• swimming across the lake
• not asking boring questions

音乐、电影和书籍

Movies: Do the Right Thing, Fargo, Primer, Waking Life, Horror/suspense: The Wailing, Hausu!, Midsommar, Some Kind of Heaven
Music: lately: NTS radio, Ibizasonica and strictly NY hip hop AND OMG shibuya-kei
Books: latest: The Second Sex by Simon De Beauvoir, next up: Half-Earth Socialsm, old favorite: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg; Bukowski

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Haggled for an 80€ bicycle in Budapest and cycled some +3000 km through 5 countries in gym shorts and old Nikes.

教，学，和分享

Teach: knots, setting up a camp site, how to swim, handstand basics, growing a righteous beard, problem solving, cooking with whatever you have, drinking games, frugal living, traveling cheap, breakfast DJ, getting started with meditation, American slang, classic American rock, New York hip hop, the electric slide, a couple of jokes, drinking games.
Learn: ahh fucking German, traditions, communities, games, jokes, tricks and riddles AND what knots do you know?

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

Two-day-pass to Berlin; improv, drunken stories, seeing the positive in the negative, and if we are in luck, an unusually unique perspective

我游览过的国家

Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland

我居住过的国家

Germany, United States

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