User:Bjoernur

I'm originally born in Stavanger, Norway, in 1966, but for the last 7 years I've lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, studying Egyptology at the U of C at the moment. Before that, I was a sailor, I am a licensed sea captain and have seen most of the world. I sailed on the west coast of California - Canada - Alaska, and the west coast of Europe and Africa from Amsterdam to Freetown, and a few years domestically in Norway, as a mate in the Navy, then the national Sea Rescue Service, and some ferry transport and cargo transport up the fjords and along the North Cape coast. Before that, I'd scored my required sea time as a sailor with one year at naval operation officer school and one year of working as a hydrographic surveyor in the oil industry on the Norwegian continental shelf. In between and during my work career I lived for 2 years in the USA, ( Seattle), in the mid-1990ies, just when living in Seattle was super cool, floating houses on lake union, etc. I lived right up the road from them, actually. I've lived one year in Amsterdam and one year in Australia. I also worked for almost one year 1994-95 on one of Paul Watson's Sea Shepherd ships, protesting Norwegian whaling. This was before he got super famous and his own reality show, we were just a tiny environmental group then, but that was definitely one of the most fun parts of my life. So far, at least. I'm hoping to move to Spain pretty soon, the cold up here in Scandinavia has gotten to me for the last time this winter, I hope, I want to move several hundred nautical miles of Denmark.