CURRENT MISSION

Make a difference.

PHILOSOPHY

Life is somatic. Your ego is not your amigo.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm relatively busy with my work and activities. I love traveling, so I thought it would be fun to offer my guest room. Many nice folk let me crash on their couches during my backpacking days. I find it to be fun to connect with good folks from all over the world.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hitchhiked through Austria without spending a schilling -- folks were so nice to pick me up, let me crash, and feed me. Blessed with endless hospitality all over Latin America and Asia.

Interests

Dancing, improv, theater, storytelling, basketball, soccer, pickleball, meditation, hiking, hot springs

• culture
• meditation
• traveling
• hiking
• backpacking
• soccer
• business

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Leonard Cohen, Earth Wind and Fire, Juan Luis Guerra, Carlos Vives, Mercedes Sosa, Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Bach . . . folk, funk, trova, jazz, rock, hip hop

Movies (so many): Pulp Fiction, El Lado Oscuro Del Corazon, Casablanca . . .

Books (also, so many): Truth in Comedy (and other improv books), The New Jim Crow (and other social justice books), Moneyball, Blink (and other fun non-fiction), various and sundry self- help and pop psychology books, anything interesting and anthropological, Milan Kundera, Isabel Allende, Norman Rush, Gabriel Garcia Marquez . . .

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Traveled in India solo, for five weeks, when I was 17 years old.

Teach, Learn, Share

Improv. Pickleball. Swing dance.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Playing improv games! Swing dance, meditation, mediation, basketball, soccer, the business of jewelry and handicraft.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Cayman Islands, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, England, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Macedonia, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Philippines, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Guatemala, Mexico, Spain, United States