1. What is your first name: Mike
2. What city are you from: Hamburg
3. What country are you from: Germany
4. What do you do: Cook at the Point Hostel in Mancora
5. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go and why: Australia because it’s great and I love it.
6. What’s your dream and why: “Find the right woman to love, settle down and God willing maybe have a few kids…wait thats not what I really want.  Really would love to find someone to write a book about me so I could get some money” (This is a direct quote by-the-way)

FOGG Notes: The first time I met Mike was at the hostel in Mancora around 10am.  He had just woke up and was cursing about something while he walked to the bar and got a liter beer.  That sums up Mike 10-fold!  He’s been working at the hostel for a year and 1/2 now and they’re not sure when he’ll leave.  He’s 37 and has been traveling for 19 years (doing the math that makes him leaving the nest at 18) and has claimed to have taken every drug in the world but quickly corrected himself on his statement and clarified “…well at least getting to it anyways.”  He is fluent in German, English, Spanish and knows enough French, Italian, Greek and Turkish to have a half ass conversation.  But what is really surprising is that before he left home he was a qualified bank teller (cooking my food is one thing, handling my money is another!).  Mike is always full of surprises and when you think you have him pegged he lets you in on a little something else.  I have to admit though, Mike is one of the best cook’s when it comes to BQQ and although it’s hard to understand him through the cursing, gibberish and slurring, he’s a fun guy to hang around when you’re wanting to get wasted.  His favorite saying is “Ok everyone, now let’s all get pissed and f-off!”‘

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