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pioneerdeville

Age:

Gender:

Male

If you must know:

It's none of your business ;-)

Travel status:

Traveling soon

Hometown:

St. Paul, Minnesota

Currently in:

St. Paul, Minnesota

Traveling Next:

Cheonan, South Korea

Favorite places I've been:

Marseille, France; Granada, Spain; Cork, Ireland; Bukhara, Uzbekistan; Portland, Oregon.

Places I want to go to:

Thailand, Korea, Japan, Russia, Italy, Germany, China.

About me:

I am a resonant white wizard...a Gemini...a rabbit...
I grew up with computers, basketball, tennis, writing, and thirst for metaphysics.
I went to Evergreen State College and spent most of my time studying different cultures, philosophy, history, and...tweaked my curriculum so that I could go to Europe for independent study (and a month WOOFing on a farm in Mallorca...and to Central Asia with six others, a couple vans, a few horses, and some Kyrgyz and Russian mountaineers.
Now...I am on my way to teach English in Korea, explore Asia, and cut my sedentary roots.

Profile URL:

http://matadortravel.com/travel-community/pioneerdeville

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I'm fired up on:

Playing guitar...wilderness...meeting new people...writing...having a feast with friends.

Tunes I rock out to:

Paco de Lucia, Neil Young, Snoop Dogg, Cypress Hill, Jimmy Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Stereolab

Travel style:

I like to travel by myself or with a couple other people as long as they are constructive, open-minded and adventurous. I like to rough it most of the time: sleep outside, couchsurf, find cheap ways of eating, walking everywhere...and then for special moments, getting a nice meal, nice shower or sauna, good drink, and have a party.

Quote:

"To be great is to be misunderstood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The price of greatness is responsibility." - Winston Churchill
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” - Carl Jung

Sports I do:

Tennis, ping-pong(?), basketball, soccer, golf(?), pool(?)

Favorite artist(s):

Paco de Lucia, Chris Bell, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin

Favorite books:

Galapogos, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Social Animal, A Pattern Language

Who I'd like to meet on my travels:

writers, musicians, city planners, philosophers, beautiful and interesting women, actors.

I want to make a difference by:

er...(1)teaching kids how to read and speak English. (2)Helping to build lively and sustainable cities.

Languages spoken, other than English:

Spanish

I felt the most immersed in a foreign culture when:

When I traveled in France and stayed with couch-surfers

Why I travel:

To find myself. To understand other people. To relinquish notions about the world. To learn different languages. To challenge myself. To have fun. To get away from sedentary boredom.

Ideal place to watch the sunrise:

Deia, Mallorca.

Ideal place to watch the sunset:

After a full-day of exploring a foreign and ancient city.

Before I die I'd like to:

Publish some books. Have kids and grankids. Trip on Ayhausca in the jungle with natives. Go on a pilgrimage - maybe El Camino de Santiago. Be fluent in four or five languages. Work as an international spy (shhhhh!). Become an esteemed and renowned/innovative urban planner.

Let's collaborate:

I'd like to share stories about life and places and perhaps connect somewhere out in the world (in REAL life).

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