CURRENT MISSION

I,m on a traveling break right now from what has become my main objective. That is restoring an old wooden building out in rural Ontario that is in the family into an increasingly sustainable home base

ABOUT ME

I'm an easygoing quite type, a bit of a hippy, an environmentalist and history nerd.
I'm thirty and have never had a drivers license. I tell people i want to be a teacher when i grow up but that hasn't fully happened yet. I'm way more comfortable at a quiet cosy pub than a nightclub. I'm usually happy to turn up in a place and wait/wander and see what happens. I'm a bit of a drifter and live my normal life like I'm camping. I'm happiest of all out in the woods. I love board games and conversation. I've always been good at making new friends and can get along with just about anybody. I love making things myself and growing my own food.

PHILOSOPHY

I live my life to learn and to continue doing so. It has been mostly practical skills these days; i just learned how to build a foundation and frame up a building. But i love all kinds of knowledge from the truly and universally important to the frivolous and inane. I guess the exception is pop culture which just doesn't stick (I've always been terrible at the pink category in Trivial Pursuits)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

So I'm new to this here, although i've talked about joining for a long time. Now I am actually traveling and hope to have as wonderful experiences as those i have heard of from my friends. So far I have only participated by signing up. I hope to make use of couches during my current trip in europe and hope greatly to reciprocate next summer when i am back home. I'm Canadian and I created this profile while in Finland and haven't been home in the meantime so I cant get verified just yet but i will.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

plenty of random wonderful encounters over the years but never before through this website..... a newbie.
I hitch-hiked around australia and New Zealand when i was 18, and have since done a great deal of hitching in canada as well. I cannot count the number of times I have been invited into generous homes and thoroughly enjoyed myself doing it.

Interests

canoeing, the outdoors, hitch-hiking, cycling as a lifestyle, living in the country by a lake, gardening, foraging for food, wildness of all kinds, summer swims and winter skiing, urban exploration, history, lounging in cafes and reading books

• culture
• books
• dining
• pub crawls
• gardening
• board games
• reading
• traveling
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• canoeing
• camping
• hunting
• skiing
• teaching
• history
• hitchhiking
• urban exploration

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS
Waterland by Graham Swift (totally unlike waterworld with kevin costner I assure you)
Through Black Spruce and Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
The Making of the English Working Class and Customs in Common by E.P. Thompson
The Adventures of Kavalier and Klay by Michael Chabon
Volkswagon Blues par Jacques Poulin
John Steinbeck
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain

MOVIES
unforgiven, the outlaw josey Wales, clockwork orange.....pretty much everything by kubrick actually, alien(s), the big lebowski

MUSIC
Dylan, Cash, rolling stones, the roches, rory galagher, pink floyd

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

24 hours of sunlight in a single day: Dawson City Yukon Territory
Nothing else I have ever experienced gives you such frantic wonderful energy.

Hitch-hiked from Montreal to Winnipeg in thirty three hours..... beat the greyhound bus.

Old growth forest

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: edible wild plants (in N.E North America anyways), english

Learn: french (an ongoing process), hunting

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Cuba, Finland, Ireland, New Zealand, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Canada