CURRENT MISSION

To backpack all over the word together and meet awesome people

ABOUT ME

The two of us met at a shared workplace, a restaurant in town. The manager suggested I drive Amy home for her safety, and when I did, she "accidently" left her striped knit gloves in my backseat. Needless to say, we've been hooked ever since. We're currently celebrating our fourth year together.

PHILOSOPHY

Is the glass half full, half empty, or twice as large as it needs to be? :) - Armando

Amy -
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make a difference that you have lived and lived well.
--Raph Waldo Emerson

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We're willing to show someone around where we live (still in New Brunswick as Amy finishes college). Once we move to NYC (a much funner place), we'll be happy hosts as well.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I (Armando) have stayed in a couple apartments-turned-hostels, but never genuinely couch-surfed.

Amy - totally new to this - I have never even traveled out of the country except with family

Interests

Armando - Creating music and working with video editing, politics and art, interacting with the collective subconscious

Amy - computer science nerd, loves music, movies, reading, interested in photography and traveling to Europe

• arts
• photography
• politics
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• knitting
• music
• guitar
• backpacking
• tennis
• computer science
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Kafka, Radiohead, The Mars Volta, Aronofsky, Linklater - (Armando)

Amy -
Movies: Finding Neverland, Before Sunrise/Sunset, When Harry Met Sally, anything by Hayao Miyazaki
Music: Belle & Sebastian, Iron & Wine, the Radio Dept, Grizzly Bear, Sigur Ros, the Strokes
Books: Les Miserables, The Brothers Karamazov

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Armando - Santa Clause riding a reclining bicycle in his skivvies out on the farmlands of Holland.

Amy - visited the tiny rural town in China where my grandfather lives

Teach, Learn, Share

Armando: Play guitar, use a 35mm camera

Amy: playing tennis...programming

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Japan, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States