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Overview

  • 7 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning Portuguese
  • 45, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Natural Building
  • Mostly through observation and experience. One can be eas...
  • From Detroit, MI, USA
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To create a calm life. Meditate, learn, laugh and build things.

ABOUT ME

building with natural materials and learning about many different ways to build. Such as cob, stone, bamboo, clay, straw and lime. A much simpler life. Love to make and listen to music. Love to dance, to good music of course. Love to read. Love Spirituality and meditation of many types. Excited about the adventure and experience of every day of life.
Living in Mexico at the moment and spending a lot of time with a building project that is utilizing cob and bamboo. A bit of traveling to learn of this beautiful country and experiencing the culture as deeply as possible.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Offering a place to stay for travellers. Offering compainionship when I am in my home city and when I will be traveling. Offering to engage in sharing food, recipes and cooking with other travellers.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Only as a housemate to a host. He has had several travellers stay with us and they have all had beautiful stories and wonderful attitudes toward life.
It has inspired me to Join CS.

Interests

Music, growing and eating food, creativity of any kind, reading, spirituality, other cultures, discussing, learning that I was incorrect about something, dreaming, sleeping, sunshine, hiking, mountains, oceans, waterfalls, beauty, learning something new, the world we live in, evolution, technology, bass, herbs, dancing, adventure and laughing.

  • culture
  • beauty
  • dancing
  • dining
  • cooking
  • recipes
  • organic food
  • meditation
  • technology
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • electronic music
  • violin
  • hiking
  • mountains
  • handmade
  • organic farming

Music, Movies, and Books

The Fall, Big Fish,
Beats Antique, Parov Stelar, Apersan, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Anoushka Shankar, Vinicius de Moraes, Nitan Sawney, Shpongle, Nneka, Ojos de Brujo, Phutureprimitive, Pretty Lights.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watching a thunder storm roll in from the south over lake Atitlan. Built a cob house there. It was incredible.
Waking up everyday with excitement. Spent 6 years traveling and helping with many different projects in several different countries.
Made an electronic music album and learning to play the violin.
Hiked in beautiful places in all the countries I have been to.

Teach, Learn, Share

Natural building. Creating shelter with our hands. Cooking , eating and food.
Ideas
Laughter

What I Can Share with Hosts

Food, meditation, laughter, knowledge of natural construction and a damn fine presence.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Belize, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Colombia, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Laos, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States

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