The Dauntless Adventure III

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This journey started in China, and will end when I return to Miami via circumnavigation of the globe, touching all 7 continents as I go. For the next few years I will be in Asia and Australia, following which I will hit the Near East, Africa, Europe, and then South America, Antarctica, and then possibly return home. About Me My name's Patrick Thompson (白龙), aspiring author and illustrator. I currently work for Buckland International Group (a foreign teacher agency) in Yangshuo, Guangxi Province, China 阳朔，广西，中华人民共和国 as the Assistant Director. When I'm not working, or being a slave to my girlfriend, I work on my novel and its illustrations. Currently the novel is at a state of 25% completion or so. I plan on living in the Far East for an extended amount of time, possibly for several years. Stats: Age: 24 Hometown: Naples, Florida, USA Relationship status: In a relationship Religion: Athiest Email: patthompson008@gmail.com Business Email: bucklandpatrick@gmail.com Telephone: ++86 134 713 544 77

Interests: Writing, painting, reading, surfing, skateboarding, art, Mandarin Chinese, mythology, poetry, pizza, blueberry muffins, bacon, cheese, bikes, camping, rock climbing, hiking, cosmology, biology, breakfast, hanging out with my girlfriend, meeting cool people from abroad, traveling, sitting in oven-hot cars with the music turned up loud, campfires, the night sky as seen from a mountain peak, water balloons, monkeys, Asian temples, Cuba Libres, etc Favorite Movies: The Truman Show, Fight Club, The Lord of the Rings, The Departed, Dumb & Dumber, V for Vendetta, X-Men, Rock N' Rolla, Spiderman, Billy Madison, Sin City, 300, Jurassic Park, Across the Universe, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Matrix, Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, Gattaca, Shawshank Redemption, Star Wars, Willow, The Goonies, Bicentenial Man, Saving Private Ryan, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, American Beauty, 28 Days Later, Dawn of the Dead, The Grudge, The Ring, Saw, The Forbidden Kingdom, Rush Hour, Shoot Em' Up, Kill Bill, The Omen, The Village, The Happening, The Sixth Sense, Pineapple Express, Harry Potter, The Watchmen, Batman: The Dark Knight, Borat, Children of Men, The Notebook, TMNT, Transformers, The Kingdom of Heaven, The Fountain, etc Favorite Books: Lord of the Rings, Dune, Ender's Game, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Shining, Perdido Street Station, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, The Wheel of Time, Napalm and Silly Putty, The Power of One, 1984, A Brave New World, The Faded Sun Trilogy, The Wayfarer's Redemption, All Men are Brothers, Journey to the West, Fight Club, Choke, Jurassic Park, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Journey to the West, Battle Royale, Mistborn, Lonely Planet, etc Favorite Music: Rock, Punk, Ska, Reggae, Metal, Indie, Soundtracks. Deftones, Sublime, Mad Caddies, Bob Marley, Modest Mouse, Bad Religion, Foo Fighters, AFI, AC/DC, Aggrolites, Aquabats, Anti-flag, Aqualung, Arcade Fire, Artic Monkeys, Asobi Seksu, Authority Zero, Beatles, Beck, Bedouin Soundclash, Black Eyed Peas, Old School Blink-182, Bright Eyes, Cake, Cat Empire, Cat Power, Catch 22, The Clash, Coldplay, The Cure, Death Cab for Cutie, Dropkick Murphys, Elvis, Enya, Everclear, Face to Face, Fenix-TX, Floggin Molly, Garbage, Goldfinger, Gorillaz, The Greatful Dead, Green Day, Gym Class Heroes, The Hippos, HorrorPops, Hot Water Music, Incubus, Iron & Wine, Jack Johnson, Jackson 5, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Kittie, Korn, Julie London, Less than Jake, Limp Bizkit, Lit, MIA, Marlyn Manson, Me First & the Gimme Gimmies, Metallica, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Millencolin, The Misfits, Moby, MU330, The Muse, Mustard Plug, MXPX, Nirvana, No Doubt, NOFX, Oasis, The Offspring, Operation Ivy, Orgy, Our Lady Peace, Ozomatli, POD, Pennywise, Pepper, A Perfect Circle, Peter Tosh, The Pigeon Detectives, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, Placebo, The Pogues, Portugal - the Man, The Postal Service, Powerman 5000, Pretty Girls make Graves, Pulley, Queen, Rage Against the Machine, The Ramones, Rancid, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Reel Big Fish, Rilo Kiley, Rise Against, The Riverboat Gamblers, Rob Zombie, The Rolling Stones, Royal Crown Revue, Sage Francis, Save Ferris, Serart, Seu Jorge, Sevendust, Sex Pistols, Shins, Shivaree, Silverchair, Slightly Stoopid, Smashing Pumpkins, Snow Patrol, Social Distortion, STP, Streetlight Manifesto, The String Quartet, The Strokes, Suicide Machines, System of a Down, Thievery Corporation, Three Dog Night, Tiger Army, Tool, Toots and the Maytals, Transplants, Twelve Girls Band, Unwritten Law, Veruca Salt, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Weezer, The White Stripes, Wolfmother, 311, Philip Glass, John Williams, Javier Navarette, Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, Howard Shore, James Newton Howard, John Murphy, etc Dislikes: The Great Firewall of China, rabid republicans, religion, horn honking, 6 a.m. fruit markets outside my window, non-Florida orange juice, the winter cold, propagation of ignorance, pollution, Chinese-to-foreigner racism, etc