I live fairly close to Berkeley. I've just written a 550 page anthropological book about a place in northern California, and am developing an online free CC university (which is accrediting on CC MIT OpenCourseWare in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC) and is also a wiki (like CC Wikipedia in ~300 languages). I like to travel and meet people! You can read more about my book here -http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html - as well as my interests and research on my homepage - http://www.scottmacleod.com.

This is my favorite way to travel and visit people and places! There is nothing better, more fun and interesting than being a guest in a local resident’s home, for instance – in Paris. And this way of great value accommodation can be practiced everywhere – in Europe as well as Asia, America, and island nations. I want to feel the real atmosphere of places I visit!

Online highest quality free education (http://worlduniversityandschool.org), music (I play the Scottish Small Pipes - http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm), studying the Internet (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy) and anthropology and languages.

I like the Grateful Dead, Raga, J.S. Bach and music from the '60s

I like the film Diva

Currently enjoying "H is for Hawk" by Helen Macdonald

I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail in California, Oregon and Washington for about 5 months total (about 2/3rds of its ~2600 miles).

Open, free, CC World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - which is like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare.

Music - I often travel with my Scottish Small Pipes. Ideas about sharing free CC online education and especially free planned university and high school degrees in many languages, Good cheer, Friendship

India, Japan

Germany, Scotland