"Adventure"
Author Unknown
"So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endless changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."
"Travel"
"Now I'm not looking for absolution
Forgiveness for the things I do
But before you come to any conclusions
Try walking in my shoes"
-Depeche
Pierced from head to head...(21 piercings thus far, and yes, 15 are in my cock) with a chest, arms, forearms and feet decorated by ink!
"Dead Souls"
As written by Nikolia Gogol
Everything in you is poor, straggling and uncomfortable: no bold wonders of nature crowned with ever bolder wonders of art, no cities with many-windowed tall palaces built upon rocks, no picturesque trees... Everything in you is open, empty, flat; your lowly towns are stuck like dots upon your plains... there is nothing to beguile and ravish the eye. But what is the incomprehensible, mysterious force that draws me to you? Why does your mournful song, carried along your whole length and breadth from sea to sea, echo and re-echo incessantly in my ears? What is there in it? What is there in that song? What is it that calls, and sobs, and clutches at my heart?... Russia! What do you want from me? What is that mysterious, hidden bond between us?
Lover of Vodka, Motorcycle's and Women alike...
I am a traveler turned English teacher, as well as most recently, a bartender, presently living my dream as an Expat in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. My latest travels have included a magnificent holiday through Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt of the Middle East as well as celebrating my 30th birthday in Thailand of South East Asia, and most recently, revisiting Eastern Europe and discovering Serbia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania, Montenegro and Croatia of the Balkans. I love my life!!!
I only wish others in America would also experience the beauty of this world before acting in their misguidance to destroy it.
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"…the world has to be very careful that they don't go after the wrong people. Because if you go after the wrong people, you convert moderates into extremists.
You know, terrorists call mechanized death from 35,000 feet above sea level with a press of a button also terror. We don't call it that, because our soldiers are wearing uniforms. They don't see what is happening, and innocent people are being killed. So, you know, terror is a term that you apply to the other…"
"War on terrorism is an oxymoron"
-Deepak Chopra
*The untraveled man is humbled by the amount of which I have traveled. I myself am humbled by the places I have yet to travel...
For a taste of my life, I bring you the "World through my eyes"
The Ancient "Silk Road"
Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
*Somewhere in Uzbekistan...
*Playing "Boarder Guard"... Walking the line between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan
Kazakhstan minus Borat
*Third class is the welcoming class!
Dinner·
...and desert...
Yes people, its chalk!?!?!
The Ship Graveyard of the Aral Sea
Once a mighty sea, the Soviets diversion of its water supply lead to its current state
·as the sea began to disappear, so did the towns and villages that
once survived by its presence
Today, this environmental catastrophe has resulted in
less than half of the sea remaining, leaving in its place
little more than its ghostly wake
Aralsk, Kazakhstan
Aktobe, Kazakhstan
*Look, what a beautiful Mosque...
...I..'m fairly certain that..'s a shopping mall
...no, that..'s definitely a Mosque?!?!
...oh, its both!!! How convenient???
"Moskva", Mother Russia
*Lenin..'s Tomb
*"Just some good ole boys, never meaning no harm..."
(Fucking Tourists)
Within the Kremlin walls...
Statue Park
...and my favorite
*THE METRO...Can you believe I can actually read this shit now?
Vilnius, Lithuania
Beauty found in the distressed
The sacred and emotional "Hill of Crosses"
The one I left behind...
*In loving memory of Grandma and Grandpa Varela, Grandpa Lowers, Michael and Steven Lowers, Uncle Dennis, Scott Leeson and Alex Schnieder
May you rest in peace
Riga, Latvia
*Just how cold was it you ask? Are you kidding?
*And as if to make a point...Here..'s me, again, walking on water!
Tallinn, Estonia, the most Northern of the Baltic States
And as if waiting to be discovered by me...
there it was...The Depeche Mode Bar (DM BAAR)
*Search no longer...fore heaven has been found.
My home... Saint Petersburg, Russia
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