CURRENT MISSION

To visit every country on Planet Earth. To meet as many people as I can and leave each one a better person. To live life with out regret.

ABOUT ME

I am...just another guy. I was born and raised in a traditional Amish community.It was a great life, but I had to leave when I turned 21. Life has been a mind boggling, interesting journey ever since.I really enjoy my work and the way it allows me to travel. I am very passionate about learning and intend to learn as many languages as I can. I untiringly promote making good choices in life that will help a person be successful in what ever they chose to do. I enjoy trying new things and experiencing the local culture as much as possible when I am in a new city or country.
I consider myself to be very open minded, and I love to meet new people. I believe that couch surfers are a very unique kind of people, that indeed, something has to happen in a person's life for them to go wandering about the great world and staying with perfect strangers. The tales on what caused you to become that person are very fascinating, and I am dying to hear it!

PHILOSOPHY

I am on earth for a short time and I am intent on making the most out of my time here. I constantly make goals that seem impossible , just to see whether I can achieve them.I have heard far too many old people say they wish they would have lived more...and I don't want to have that regret.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting, surfing,meeting locals, promoting CS.If you are in Lancaster especially weekends, or evenings, I would be thrilled to show you around the charming town, or take you out to see the thousands of hard working Amish.
Couch Surfing is so much more than a cheap way to travel (we mustn't forget that benefit, however). It gives me the opportunity to forge new friendship, which remains intact for a long time, and will likely even bring me back again. Without that connection, a city once visited becomes a hollow memory, crumbles, and fades into the dust

Here is a link to an article where the local paper interviewed me on Couch Surfing.
http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/901937_Have-couch--will-surf.html

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Positive! My favorite hobby. Gotta warn you though...it's very addictive!

Interests

I really enjoy walking in the city, talking over coffee,bowling, exploring,swimming, hiking,photography ,reading, music,broadway shows, coffee, craft brews and new languages.I have a very classical side, but then I also enjoy modern and contemporary things. And of course, travelling!! One of my favorite things is coming to a city I have never been to before, where I know no one, and I do not speak the language.

• culture
• photography
• dancing
• wine
• coffee
• walking
• reading
• traveling
• eating out
• blogging
• music
• hiking
• camping
• surfing
• rock climbing
• swimming
• bowling
• emergency services
• genealogy
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

My life has been a journey, and I connect with certain books,etc., because of that! favorite book:Wild At Heart, John Eldredge. Katie, by Clara Bernice Miller. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky are amazing. Steig Larsson's Millenium Series (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. The Hundred Year Old Man That Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared

Movies: The Village, Fiddler On The Roof, Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit, Pearl Harbor, Tribute of Panem Series, Divergent, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

TV shows: Burn Notice, Covert Affairs, Nikita, White Collar, The Big Bang Theory, Homeland, Suits

Music: I love classical, celtic, and metal. Some of my favorites are Blackmill, Nightwish, Enya, Two Steps From Hell, Lindsey Stirling, Coldplay and Celtic Woman

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

*A very profound moment in my life was standing on top of a tall, bombed out building in Mostar Bosnia, at a spot occupied by a sniper. To see the rusting pile of shells, and realize the destruction and grief caused here was intense and deep.
*Visiting the tunnel of hope in Sarajevo. Amazing!
* I spent a month onthe Trans-Siberian train across Russia from Vladivostok to ST Petersburg.
*Seeing the town of my ancestry in Trub Switzerland.
*Roaming a dark,bad part of Budapest at midnight, lost, just having arrived, and fighting off a would be thief.
*Climbing and experiencing the great wall of China.
*Riding a motorbike thorough the villages and jungles of Vietnam. Being chased by police through these jungle villages
*Skinny dipping in the cold Norwegian fjords at midnight
*Sleeping in the Hong Kong jungle spontaneously on a piece of plywood.
* Spending an entire night chasing the most amazing colorful aurora borealis in northern Norway/Finland.
*Hiking and camping in Australia's great outback. Crossing Australia by train.
*Took the train from the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea. 5,000 KM
*Exploring the world's largest underground wine cellars in Chisinau Moldova
*I spent some time in the coldest village on earth in northern Siberia. I have never been so cold in my life.
*I was on a flight in which the engine caught on fire.
*I made a solo visit to the non-existent country of Abkhazia
*I spent several days in the war torn country of Nagorno Karabakh.
*Climbed three of Norway's most beautiful places. Troll's Tongue, Kjeragbolten and Pulpit Rock
*I spent a week camping in the Arctic Circle and watching the midnight sun

Teach, Learn, Share

I am happy to teach you anything I know. Like making the best Southern Biscuits and Gravy, or amazing mojitos. Teaching PA Dutch. Learning the language you speak. I really want to learn more of photography and blogging. All about learning dance, any style!

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Isle of Man, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macao, Macedonia, Maldives, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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