Aloha! Guess why? Chicken thigh!

Dmitry signing in here. I’m a recently-turned 34-year-old half-home(apartment)-owner. “Who owns the other half?”, you might ask. Well, it just so happens to be a guy who picked me up at the airport on a flight from Calgary to Vancouver one day. So the story goes that I had just moved to Calgary and a couple months later, I was waiting at the gate for a flight home to Vancouver, testing out the new MacOS (I LOVE APPLE), wearing a hoodie and this guy thought, “DAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMNNNNNNNN. This guy seems cool.” He came and started talking to me before the flight… and the proceeded to wait for me as everyone disembarked the flight because he was like… obsessed with me. I thought to myself, I don’t really have any friends in Calgary, so this might be a good opportunity to make a new friend. Two months later, voila, we bought an apartment together. Some people would say I like to move fast, but hey, life’s too short to not buy property with relative strangers.

If you could describe me in one phrase, it would be “the most reliable best friend anyone could ask for… who also frequently enjoys girls’ nights”. I have a plethora friends (some would say too many – I can’t help it if I have a chubby personality!), and I’m always down for a good time and I’ll be the biggest pusher of shots anyone has ever met. Everyone always needs to do shots to have a good time. Although, I’m at the beginning of a one-month weight loss challenge with my two good friends, so no alcohol for me for the next month. I’m trying this diet that consists of starvation, intermittent fasting, a juice cleanse and eating a can of sardines when I think I’m going to die of starvation. I’ve heard it works wonders, so get ready for a new SLIM and TRIM version of Dmitry.

So anyway, I don’t really know why I’m on this website, since I don’t do much travelling outside of North America, excluding one trip to my motherland, Sri Lanka, where my friend was supposed to give me some disposable undies to take with me, but FORGOT to give them to me before I left. Needless to say, I did without and throwing away ANY undies ever is just a foreign concept to me. I would, however, consider myself a worldly person, having grown up in two Asian countries before moving to Canada and the ripe old age of nine. Nine years old isn’t actually that old, but it’s definitely too old for nappies!

When I do travel, I also like to travel on a budget, like my good friend Eileen. This includes us both visiting the Chartered Traveller himself in San Francisco and all three of us sharing his queen-size bed for two nights. It actually wasn’t that uncomfortable, aside from his farting and my snoring. To be fair, I don’t even think I was snoring, because how can you snore if you weren’t even asleep? I WAS JUST RESTING MY EYES. I also like to use points gained from the 15 credit cards I own to book all my travel, so everything is basically free.

As an aside, I also love cats, especially my own cat. She’s basically my girlfriend because I refuse to date a human being.

All in all, I’m excited to be a part of this travelling group and hope to contribute predominantly in how to travel on a budget and maintain clean undies while doing so.

Regards,
Dmitry