Michael

Travel information

I am currently

Activities i am interested in:

Bikepacking Baja Divide, enjoying the desert and talking to the locals.

Description

Currently riding a famous and quite demanding offroad Baja Divide [https://bajadivide.com/] ride down Baja California, Mexico, although not sure how far I will last!!

I am a techie by profession and I have been coding for video game engines. Recently I lost my in-the-office job (no regret) in Central Europe and decided to go travelling along the West Coast of North America on a bike. Just finished a ride from Vancouver to San Diego.

I have been enjoying my trip and I am looking forward to being useful to others, helping and interacting with people, practising meditation, learning more about others as well as myself, being social and spreading peace. And to continue having more awesome adventures!

I have quite a bit of volunteering experience. I started volunteering as a student and found it both personally rewarding as well as beneficial for the community. Lately, I have helped to run the 2019 UK Dharma Celebration at a Buddhist Meditation Centre in Derbyshire [https://tarakmc.org/]. Over the years I have been slowly getting into the meditation practice, now with Sahaja Yoga [https://www.freemeditation.com/].

In the past, I have coordinated two work camps for the SCI [https://www.sci.ngo/]. Once we were restoring the World War I trenches and paths at the Open-Air War Museum on the Austrian-Italian border [https://www.dolomitenfreunde.at/openair-en/]. Another time we were doing some carpentry work and helped to install a biomass heating system at Rudolf Steiner Waldorf school [http://www.waldorf-schoenau.at/] in Lower Austria.

I believe in treating everyone with respect, regardless of time and place. Over time some of my hobbies have been pencil drawing, playing city-building video games, climbing/bouldering, caving, hiking, skiing and, last but not least, cycling. I am an introvert and a cat person and very much enjoy playing with cats if I can find some around who are willing to oblige!

Interests

Languages

Languages spoken
English: Fluent
German: Intermediate
Spanish: Beginner

More details about my language interests
Would like to learn Spanish (on a conversational level) - want to travel to/in Latin America.

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Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn

Some knowledge of:  

General Maintenance

Animal Care

Teaching

Charity Work

Art Projects

Eco Projects

DIY and building projects

Helping around the house

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Able to teach about:  

Hospitality/Tourism

Helping with Computers/ Internet

More details about your skills

*️️Experience working at a hostel, cafe, pub, restaurant, shop
*️️Fixing stuff including chairs, computers and bikes
*️️Delegating work to other volunteers
*️I am ok at playing some video games ;p

Age

42

What else ...

Hoping to be abducted by aliens someday.

Some more information

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  Driver's licence

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  Special dietary requirements