ABOUT ME

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Hi! I get many requests. You can also message me on Instagram if you’d like: @matt.and.the.world

I love hosting people:
- Who host 🏠 (or at least have references)
- From abroad 🌍
- 1-3 nights 💤
- Who speak Spanish 🇪🇸

Finally, Couchsurfing is not a free Airbnb - it’s a loving and respectful community of travelers. I hope you share these values!
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A lover and dreamer with travel fever! I’m a doctor who works in global health (worked in India, a year in Peru). I once took a trip studying global health policy following Che Guevara's motorcycle route throughout South America, and felt that I truly found my life's work. I'm also passionately interested in learning from others - whether through life experiences, knowledge, or worldview - I believe that everyone has something meaningful to contribute.

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting, surfing, meeting, story-telling, story-listening, teaching, learning, connecting, exploring, loving, laughing.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Interests

Medicine, politics, cocktails, coffee, language, global health, development, travel, scuba diving, tea, beer, riding trains, triathlon, and seriously anything new.

• beer
• cocktails
• vegetarian
• triathlon
• traveling
• surfing
• scuba diving
• medicine
• mountains
• public health
• spanish language

Music, Movies, and Books

Everything! EDM, latin pop, hip hop. So many books.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One Christmas I had no plans and didn’t have vacation time to visit family. I posted on Couchsurfing an open invitation to hang out at my apartment, especially for solo travelers abroad for the holidays. Within a few hours there were 35 people in my little apartment from 14 countries, including a professional magician (stories on my IG). It was a truly magical Christmas.

Teach, Learn, Share

Let's make tea or cocktails and share stories.

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't"

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, England, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Malaysia, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Scotland, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City State, Virgin Islands, British, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Peru, United Kingdom, United States