In 2010, I decided that it would be a good idea to travel for several months by train through China, Korea, Russia, the Baltic states and Poland. It turned out to be an excellent idea!

In 2011, I started work on rehabilitating a run-down ranch in northern California (with some wine grapes). So far so good - it's a lot of fun!

Now plan to spend time between San Francisco, Munich, and another place I've not yet decided on (Seattle? Vancouver?). Really would like to spend more of my free time getting to know someone new. City or nature - I like both equally - the important things for me is thoughtful fun and balance, though difficult to strike!

Personally: Travelling when I have the chance. One major objective is to find a place where I could actually live with ease after the USA.

Otherwise: Various projects...figuring them out and getting them done.

Remembering places and navigating around. Seeing the beauty in things.

Don't like chit chat too much and have little patience...unless I know you...then I hold you to an even higher standard :)

A few books I've enjoyed: Boomsday, Captain Blood , the Stranger, Lolita, White Noise, Old Man and the Sea, Smoke Bellew, Eiger Dreams, Sherlock Holmes, The Ascent of Rum Doodle, The Master and Margarita, Moby Dick, Big Score, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Fountainhead, and Money of the Mind.

B: Porco Rosso, Howl's Moving Castle / Laputa, Buena Vista Social Club, Some Like It Hot, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Mystery Men, Fight Club, Seven Beauties, F. Destin de Amelie Poulain, Jiro Loves Sushi, Castle of Cagliostro, Kill Bill, Sky Captain, Bourne Identity, Match Point, Lord of the Rings, Iron Giant, Thank you for Smoking, Hannibal, Matrix I, Night Watch, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, Casablanca, Third Man.

C: BBC's Top Gear

D:Diverse, across all genres there are a few good songs, liking ragtime and jazz recently.

E: Japanese, German, Hamburger+Steak, Russian cabbage soup at Max's, Satsuma oranges, muscat grapes, gokuri squeeze drink, vitamin water 'rescue'

The Internet (it's love/hate)
Being Outside
Being Inside
Quiet Time
Family
Fruit Tarts

"I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's mind. No matter how many times we reopen "King Lear," never shall we find the good king banging his tankard in high revelry, all woes forgotten, at a jolly reunion with all three daughters and their lapdogs. Never will Emma rally, revived by the sympathetic salts in Flaubert's father's timely tear. Whatever evolution this or that popular character has gone through between the book covers, his fate is fixed in our minds, and, similarly, we expect our friends to follow this or that logical and conventional pattern we have fixed for them. Thus X will never compose the immortal music that would clash with the second-rate symphonies he has accustomed us to. Y will never commit murder. Under no circumstances can Z ever betray us. We have it all arranged in our minds, and the less often we see a particular person the more satisfying it is to check how obediently he conforms to our notion of him every time we hear of him. Any deviation in the fates we have ordained would strike us as not only anomalous but unethical. We would prefer not to have known at all our neighbor, the retired hot-dog stand operator, if it turns out he has just produced the greatest book of poetry his age has seen." Vladimir Nabokov

Same thing I do every night...making new plans

I 'own' some semi-wild peacocks and want more of them.

You'd like to make the acquaintance of a quality individual for conversation. You've got an artistic sensibility and sensitivity. A taste for some adventures outdoors. Kind, open and accommodating personality. Sometimes we seek what we'd like to hone within ourselves ;)

You're someone who also has capacity for imagination, with some interesting or creative goals in life. Someone who would like to live for a time outside the US.

You know a place around here like Club Med or a hostel where everybody arrives a stranger, but shares food and drink and mixes at round tables while practicing their language skills.

Someone who is ready.