Russia: 1986 - 1995
Canada: 1995 - 2009
Portugal: 2009 - 2010
Germany: 2010 - 2014
USA: 2014 - 2016
Japan: 2016 - 2018
Russia: 2018 - 2021
Canada 2022 +

Philosophy: Happiness, freedom, and new experiences

Interests

Long-Distance Cycling: Galicia (Spain), the Rhine (Germany), Estonia
Hiking: Pyrenees (Spain), High Atlas (Morocco), Bavarian Alps (Germany), Rockies (Canada)
Sailing: Lefkada (Greece), San Francisco (USA)
Hitchhiking: Spain, Belgium, France, Germany, Austria

• architecture
• dancing
• cheese
• chess
• cycling
• hiking
• sailing
• skiing
• history
• languages
• hitchhiking
• new experiences
• cognitive science
• go

Music, Movies, and Books

Music that possesses you
Books that you have to put down and think about
Movies that you reflect on long after you've watched them

Catcher in the Rye, The Fountainhead, 1984, Kreutzer Sonata
Into the Wild, Office Space, Cashback, Crash, Perfect Sense

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Granada, Toledo, Fira, and Venice
Lava pouring into the ocean (Hawaii, USA)
The ruins of a civilization (Delos, Greece)
Bulls in the street and Forcados (V. Franca de Xira, Portugal)
Time travel to the middle ages (Fez, Morocco)
Koelsch, costumes, and Karneval music (Cologne, Germany)
Masked gremlins with confetti (Basel, Switzerland)
Freshly baked bread and stinky cheese (Haute-Savoie, France)
Medieval monasteries with monks (Athos, Greece)
Eighteen hours underground (Paris, France)
Ten days of silent meditation (Kathmandu, Nepal)
Two weeks of hiking in the Himalayas

Teach, Learn, Share

We could have a conversation in every language we have in common (one sentence in one language, the next in another...)
I'd really like to learn how to sketch portraits, play the harmonica, and dance forro

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, North Korea, Peru, Romania, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Germany, Japan, Portugal, Russian Federation, Sweden, United States

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