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Overview

  • 58 references 38 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Hebrew (modern), Italian; learning Arabic
  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Cuisine Specialist and Terrestial Interloper
  • Cooking School and LIFE
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” —Mark Twain

ABOUT ME

I can be quiet and introspective or animated and extroverted depending on the energy I feel. I enjoy intelligent people who use their brains for the creative, the humorous, the insane and the beautiful paths of life.

PHILOSOPHY

Life is better enjoyed when everyone gets to enjoy it together in peace. One can never lose hope in peace.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I provide a landing zone for the all the space cadets that frequent the Couchsurfing universe.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Every place I go turns into a couchsurfing adventure of one sort or another.

Interests

Cooking, bicycling, reading, writing (big on writing), throwing people off with my crazy conjectures

  • writing
  • dining
  • cooking
  • reading

Music, Movies, and Books

Milan Kundera, George R. R. Martin, anything Stephen King, the Bible, Ernest Hemingway, Moses Maimonides

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The Bone Chapel in Kutna Hora, Czech Republic was absolutely ghoulish.
Bosnia was an interesting and fun trip, as well as a Muslim country where I was truly welcomed without having to hide my identity.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you some Hebrew. Smart!

I can teach you some Krav Maga. Ouch!

I can of course teach you how to cook. Yum!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Food and horrible, horrible jokes.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Israel, Italy, United States

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