ABOUT ME

Straightforward, easygoing, laid back, open minded, hospitable. Like to show people around places I like and love (when I have time of course). Love different countries and cultures and interacting with new people.

PHILOSOPHY

Lose the map....follow your own path! Do! life is short!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Share my home, company and local knowledge to those who appreciate it. Next to this:

- Co-organized the weekly Amsterdam CS meet up for a few years
- Estonian CS Summer camp 2011
- Czechsurfing 2011 Prague

Interests

-motorcycle building
-Parties
-traveling (preferably by motorcycle)

• arts
• photography
• yoga
• marathon
• running
• walking
• partying
• motorcycles
• traveling
• painting
• camping

Music, Movies, and Books

Some fav Books:
-Blue Highways, William least heat moon
-Jupiter's travels, Ted Simon
-Pegasus Bridge & Band of Brothers, Stephen Ambrose
-Anything by Malcolm Gladwell
-Anything by Alain de Botton

TV/DVD/Movie:

-Long way round
-Yellowstone
-La Grande Belezza
-Fargo
-Cidade de Deus

Music:

-Steely Dan
-Crosby,Stills &Nash
-Ludovico Einaudi
-MGMT
-Empire of the sun
-Junior Boys
- Techno in general
- chill lounge

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Memorable stuff (to me) I did:

- 20.000 km, 3 month motorcycle trip through Canada & US, coast to coast twice.
-Motorcycle trip through the Indian Himalayas.
-Climbing Masada mountain at 5 AM to see the sun rise over Jordan.
-Standing on top of the Dalsnibba overseeing the Geiranger in Norway
-Walking on Omaha beach
-Sharing a shisha with friends in old town Bucharest
-The whole 2011 motorcycle road trip of 7 countries and 12 cities in 3 weeks all through CS.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teaching is what your parents did when you weren't listening...learning is what you did when you screwed up cause you weren't listening, sharing is having fun and laughter with friends...

Ergo: Don't listen, make your own mistakes, have fun in the process!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, United States

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