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Overview

  • 4 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Spanish
  • 35, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • EMT for Doctor's Ambulance in Irvine
  • BA in Latin American History from UC San Diego
  • From Orange County, CA
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Getting in the van

PHILOSOPHY

"Don't Try" -Bukowski

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Pretty limited so far. I've hosted once and surfed once... Both experiences were great and really memorable.

Interests

Outdoor Activities (hiking, backpacking, rock climbing, surfing), Music and Reading, Health, Firefighting and Emergency Medicine, Latin America, Storytelling.

  • reading
  • music
  • outdoor activities
  • hiking
  • backpacking
  • surfing
  • rock climbing
  • medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Fugazi, Dinosaur Jr, Husker Du, Minor Threat, The Minutemen.

Authors:
Kurt Vonnegut, Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, Jack Kerouac.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One of my proudest moments was when I illegally camped in a construction site in Chile.

Also: dragging myself up all 19,347 feet of Cotopaxi

Teach, Learn, Share

I excel at coming up with half-baked theories and long winded explanations. Teachable skill?

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Russian Federation, Sweden, United Kingdom, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, United States

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