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Screen name: 
Age: 
27
Gender: 
Male
If you must know: 
I'm single
Travel status: 
Traveling soon
Hometown: 
Dallas, Texas
Currently in: 
Austin, Texas
 
Traveling Next: 
North Island, New Zealand
Favorite places I've been: 
Kurokawa Onsen, Japan
Kou Raya Yai, Thailand
Rotorua, New Zealand
Austin, Texas, USA

Places I want to go to: 
Angkor Wat, cherry blossom festival in Okinawa, Mt. Everest, skiing in Hokkaido Japan, Hawaii, Maldives, Dunedin in New Zealand, the Outback in Australia, The Void in the Sahara (just the fringe), Mt. Kilimanjaro, running the original marathon in Greece, low Earth orbit with the private space industry, Iceland, Thailand, Egypt, Sweden, Easter Island

 
About me: 
Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, attended the University of Texas at Austin from 2001-2005. After college, I stayed in Austin for a year doing freelance work until I heard about an opportunity to travel to Japan.



Right now, I'm learning to make ends meet wherever I happen to reside, attending Couchsurfing gatherings, and spreading the word of independent travel to any willing ears... guess that would make me a vagabonding missionary. But I also divide between advising people on how best to come to the land of the rising sun, making day trips to interesting areas, honing my photography skills, and writing practical travel pieces for Matador.



I have a degree in aerospace engineering. I enjoy singing Phantom of the Opera (badly, I'm sure) when I'm wandering empty streets in a foreign country at night. I once went for 60 hours without sleep (and, consequently, slept for 26 hours after that). I've been the knight in shining armor, saved the maidens fair, and battled for my life. I've woken up at 4 AM to pull a bottom-dwelling fish with 200 feet of fishing line in Alaska. There's still so much more out there waiting.



Keep an open mind when you travel. Everyone has something unique to offer. Explore this world (and perhaps beyond) using all five senses.

 
 
 
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by made_in_italy | 2009/05/26

I heard Phuket was nice =)

-Yours truly, Brooke

by made_in_italy | 2009/05/21

Intending on going to The Andaman Sea, Phi Phi Islands, and possibily Coral Island. I'm excited!!!! oh and not to mention, Bangkok

by made_in_italy | 2009/05/19

Yes sir! Well- I have a lot of family here, even more in Dallas, Texas so- hopefully that's where I'll be moving to next! How do you like Austin?

by Ms. Rogers | 2009/05/08

I will be home in almost exactly one month. So if you are passing through after the 10 of June let me know and maybe we can meet up for a coffee and shoot the breeze or something.

By Turner  |  Location: United States  |  06/09/09  |  Pics: 1

Being at home has its advantages.  For one, rather than wandering from couch to couch in an endless search for meaning and the perfect travel food, I find myself inundated with Couchsurfing requests now that I have a place in Austin.  Every week at least one traveler emails me requesting a place to...

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By Turner  |  Location: United States  |  05/25/09  |  Pics: 0

As is often the case in the minds of travelers, we feel as though our lives fall into such routines in our hometowns that the only way to truly escape the monotony is to get as far away from normalcy as possible: catch the next freighter pulling out of San Francisco; get on that one-way flight to...

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By Turner  |  Location: United States  |  05/15/09  |  Pics: 0

It's funny how easy it was just to drop back into a life here in Austin, Texas.  I don't know where else I could possibly live in the country.  Within a week, pieces just fell into place: new friends, new girl, new job... and it's not the most horrible thing in the world.  Maybe I'm losing that...

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