• Hello y’all! My name is Antonio, and on any given day you’ll find me backpacking in Alaska through grizzly bear territory; exploring Prague’s lively cobblestoned Old Town; or surfing in a hidden black-sand beach along the Road to Hana in Maui. It’s not a proper life if your heart isn’t beating fast, right? I’ll try anything once!

• I’m a wandering-wilderness lover who enjoys going on epic adventures to faraway lands and visit remote off-the-beaten path destinations thru-hiking and camping along the way. Most of my travels include exploring National Parks and Wilderness Areas around the world, from the high mountain passes in the Himalayas to the remote seashores of the Arctic Sea in Alaska or the sand dunes in the Curonian Spit along the Lithuania Baltic Coast.
I’m also a big fan of thoughtful traveling and visiting cultural and historical relevant landmarks, would never let a UNESCO World Heritage Site unexplored!

• I recently moved back to Mexico City after living abroad for fifteen years, and have made it my home base here. Currently pursuing turning my passion for traveling and photography into a full-time job, I’ve always enjoyed traveling the most when documenting my adventures through photo and video which I have been doing for the last ten years, so after postponing it for years I decided to get to it and alternate the traveling which I usually do for 6-8 months of the year, with creating content to be displayed in visual online travel and photography guides in a travel photography website and other social media platforms I’m working on putting together to be launched very soon.

• Anyway, I wasn’t always a world traveler who lead mostly a nomadic life, like many of us do I went to college, then grad school (twice actually, I hold law degrees from 3 different countries), and worked a 9-5 job as an attorney until I decided to change course and pursue my dream, a career as a travel adventure photographer and content creator traveling full-time.

• I’m currently based in Mexico City though I travel most of the year earning a living creating content for different brands and companies; brand ambassaforship; and destination photography assignments along the way.

• Just returned from South America and a trip to Patagonia and Antarctica that got cancelled because of the current situation. Then spent a week beach-hopping along Oaxaca’s coast.

• CURRENTLY IN LA PAZ•

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I’m very interested to meet local people from each city/country I visit and learn about their national identity and culture through them, hopefully go adventuring together!

Interests

• traveling
• opera
• hiking
• backpacking
• camping
• soccer
• cinema
• football
• national parks
• museums
• unesco world heritage sites

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite Book: 100 Years of Solitude

Favorite Movie: Vanilla Sky & Into the Wild

Favorite Music: All kinds!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I thru-hiked the 221 miles of John Muir Trail, part of the Pacific Crest Trail, along California’s Sierra Nevada through a handful of National Parks and Wilderness Areas.

Teach, Learn, Share

I’m big about sharing about me and my life experiences and learning through and about others.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Anything and everything I have experienced along my life- path going from transitioning from a sedentary life working a 9-5 job to a nomad existence traveling and earning a living along the way; to my travel experiences visiting more than 30 countries as well as exploring more than 200 National Parks in the US as well as visiting every state from this country while driving along panoramic highways, and about which I’m currently writing a book; to
sharing my personal experiences from living, studying, and working as an immigration attorney both in the US & Canada, and growing up in Mexico.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Mexico, United States