planetcruiser Meinhard Benn

Profile Summary

I am constantly traveling or living in places for a limited time, so I lost the notion of home, or a home a few years ago. This feeling of a temporary and autonomous existence I carry with myself since then. I'm on the run, on the loose and I want to make my way all across Asia within the next year or years. Like a nomad I listen to the feeling a place gives me and let it decide when to move on. Stepping into a bus and pay the ticket anyone can do - I prefer the harder (?) and more fun transport of hitchhiking. :) A few years ago I stopped taking jet engine planes for environmental reasons. The pollution those things create don't make it suitable for mass transportation in the long run. To cover the few costs that I have I do programming for non-profit organisations over the Internet. When the setting is right I also give workshops about Free Software along my travels. I try to live healthy, calm and just by not smoking, not eating meat, not using mobile phones unless I really have to, drinking only if there is a strong reason for it ;) and walking whenever I can. Also have a look at my Hospitality Club profile (planetcruiser) and my website benn.org if you like.

Spoken languages

• German ^{Mother Tongue}
• English ^Expert
• Romanian ^Beginner
• Russian ^Beginner
• Turkish ^Beginner

My interests

Films:

Andrew Niccol, Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro, Coen Brothers, Jean-Luc Godard, Stanley Kubrick, Leander Haußmann, Detlef Buck, Lars von Trier, Andrei Tarkovsky, Woody Allen

Organisations I belong to:

BeWelcome, Ecobytes

Travel experiences

Past trips:

A lot of hitch-hiking during the last years, I was in South-East-Asia twice, North America and all over Europe. Let me see if I remember all the countries.. DE, CZ, SK, BG, PL, DK, FR, CH, HU, AT, NL, ID, US, UK, IE, IT, FI, EE, TH, VN, KH, GR, ES, UA, TR, YU, HR, SI, BA, AL, MK, RO, BE, MD, AD, SE, NO, PT, GI, LB ..

Planned trips:

I am currently on an overland trip from Istanbul to Japan via Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Mongolia, China and South Korea. Join me along the way! :)

Belongs to the following groups

BeWelcome design team

BeWelcome testing team

i eat tests for breakfast :)

BeWelcome Translators

i translate some terms from english to german while developing :)

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