CURRENT MISSION

Trying to put some good into the world

ABOUT ME

Friendly, adventurous, nerdy. Great dancer, highly intelligent, and above all, modest.

PHILOSOPHY
"Broad, wholesome, charitable views of [humans] and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.’”
- Samuel Clemens

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

By making connections. By hosting travelers and paying forward the generosity other CSers have shown me.

Interests

Salsa, merengue, dancing in general, cooking, biking, outdoors/hiking/camping
conventional and integrative medicine
martial arts

Music, Movies, and Books

K'naan, K-OS, Lupe Fiasco, Stromae, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, Bo Diddley, Mozart, Beethoven, Gershwin
I enjoy basically any genre of music and have pretty eclectic tastes

Pan's Labyrinth, Volver, Shutter Island, Gladiator, Curse of the Golden Flower, Forest Gump, My Name is Khan

The Alchemist, and most books by Paulo Coelho
The Phantom Tollbooth
Anything by Ursula LeGuin
Anything by Douglas Adams
LOTR, Hobbit
Autobiography of Malcolm X

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lake Arenal seen from the Volcano Arenal in Costa Rica

Carrying the Sri Guru Granth Sahib (Sikh Holy book) across the pond to the Golden Temple Shrine

Swimming on top of Mosi-oa-Tunya (aka Victoria Falls) and peering over the edge of the Devil's Pool into the misty depths of the Zambezi

Skydiving with my best friend the day before his wedding

Best one: delivered a young couple's first baby.

Teach, Learn, Share

Can teach you merengue, salsa
Would like to learn cumbia, samba
Would like to learn Japanese, can teach you Spanish

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can cook for/with you
I will dance with you
I will tell you stories (true and/or contrived)

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, India, Panama, Puerto Rico, Spain, United Kingdom, Zambia

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States