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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Perpetual student of life |
| Location | the World! |
| Introduction | A vagabond by choice, wandering along Life. Favourite hideouts include the Lao PDR, sipping a Beerlao by the Mekong in laidback Vientiane, or scribbling thoughts at a bakery by the Nam Phu fountain. Then there's fantastic karst mountains and neverending paddy fields in Vang Vieng, and tubing down it all, a Beerlao in hand along the tinkling clear waters of the Nam Song - another beautiful day. Further south there is the Cambodian coast - my introduction to backpacking and the feeling of freedom that lying on the beach at night, in a foreign land, listening to waves coming in, and looking across the sea into the night brings. After India (a trip for the soul), it’s Pokhara, Nepal, for a spot of tranquility, musing by a mirror-clear lake where entire Himalayan panoramas can be glimpsed on a crisp, clear morning - perfect for strolls and rowing out to the World Peace Pagoda. And its fairytale buildings, fantastic dining (paradise, overlanding from India - motivation that kept us going on the long ride from Varanasi winding up the hills in the monsoon to Pokhara), music piping from the stores on Lakeside. And of course anywhere in the Middle East, especially vibrant, groovy Istanbul! |
| Interests | Eastern philosophy,Zen, literature, chai, mountaineering, politics, India (i am an Indian at heart), a good hummus, art,the art of long-term travel, a good long walk, spontaneous prose, occasional inspired moments of bad poetry,Tao, quiet reading, LIFE, William Blake, Li Bai, 布袋, Taylor Swift (secretly of course), seeking sangria perfection, |
| Favorite movies | Gandhi, Apocalypse Now, the Godfather trilogy, the motorcycle diaries, Fight Club |
| Favorite music | Loreena McKennitt, Enya, Hari Om - Satyaa & Pari, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Damien Rice, Simon & Garfunkel, Prem Joshua, Karunesh, Bollywood, Tibetan, religious, Celtic, bossa nova, folk, Zee Avi, Andreas Vollenweider, Tamil hits, Arabic, local indie acts, dreamy piano tunes, Stacey Kent |
| Favorite books | Rolf Pott's Vagabonding - the book that started it all, Kerouac's On the Road, the Dharma Bums, Big Sur! (for sure), Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts - the book to read in India, Chozanshi's Demon's sermon on the martial arts, the Beach by Alex Garland, Patrick Marnham - the Road to Katmandu; reading the afternoon away in the beautiful gardens of the Kaiser Mahal in Kathmandu., Are you experienced? by William Sutcliffe, HH the Dalai Lama's the Art of Happiness, Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - one of those books that changed my life, el che's motorcycle diaries, Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul |