CURRENT MISSION

To visit 120 countries before 50 years old. So far, I've been to 107 countries.

ABOUT ME

I want to exchange life experiences with people from all over the world! I really enjoy travelling!

PHILOSOPHY

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." (Ferris Buller)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I live in Curitiba since I was born, so, I know this city pretty well! I can be a very good cicerone!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
I hosted:
1. Rob Webster - Manchester, England - Oct 2010
2. Julien Boissinet - Surgeres, France - Nov 2010
3. Bruna Castelo Branco - Curitiba/PR - Nov 2010
4. Petr Vaněk - Pilsen, Czech Republic - Dec 2010
5. Diego Gómez - Bogota, Colombia - Aug 2011
6. Rolf Alrutz - Porto Alegre/RS - Oct 2011
7. Fernanda Guntzel - Porto Alegre/RS - Oct 2011
8. Jenny Ortiz - Porto Alegre/RS - Oct 2011
9. Rob Webster - Manchester, England - Jan 2012
10. Ben Silk - Massachusetts, USA - Jan 2012
11. Ivana CM Silva - São Paulo/SP - Mar 2012
12. Daniel Uchida Athanazio - São Paulo/SP - Mar 2012
13. Ivana CM Silva - São Paulo/SP - Mai 2012
14. Marcos Fonseca - São Paulo/SP - Mai 2012
15. Ivana CM Silva - São Paulo/SP - Dez 2012
16. Marcos Fonseca - São Paulo/SP - Dez 2012
17. Rob Webster - Manchester, England - Dez 2012
18. Vinicius Suzuki - Porto Alegre/RS - Mai 2013

I surfed:
1. Rob Webster - Manchester, England - Mai 2011
2. Diogo Kugler - Brasilia, DF - Mai 2013

CS Bike tours
Weekly meetings in Curitiba
Weekly meeting in São Paulo
Weekly meeting in NYC
Weekly meeting in Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Meeting new members CS Rio de Janeiro
Cooking meetings
Language meetings
4th CS National Meeting in Curitiba - Oct 28th to Nov 2nd
1st Brasilia Invasion

Interests

Travelling, foreign languages, pop culture, good food and drinks, rock music and movies.
I really enjoy live music!

• culture
• architecture
• cooking
• movies
• traveling
• music
• live music
• rock music
• hiking
• languages
• tours
• skyscrappers
• enginnering
• overland tours

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC:
U2, Pixies, Joy Division, New Order, The Cure, The Clash, Talking Heads, Coldplay, Public Image Ltd, The Police, Dire Straits, The Cult, 10000 Maniacs, The Smiths, Simple Minds, Radiohead, Sonic Youth, Belle and Sebastian, Phoenix, Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, Kaiser Chiefs, Oasis, Blur, Echo & The Bunnymen, Pearl Jam, The Strokes, Velvet Underground, Credence Clearwater Revival, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Kinks, Queen, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Fatboy Slim, Keane, Bloc Party, Snow Patrol, Interpol, Muse, The Enemy, Hard-Fi, Madonna, Michael Jackson, B-52's, Peter Bjorn and John, Lily Allen, KT Tunstall, Ting Tings, A-ha, Duran Duran, Soft Cell, Electronic, INXS, Midnight Oil, Men at Work, Green Day, Offspring, Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Björk, Florence and The Machine, Amy Macdonald, Gabrielle Cilmi, Adele, Decemberists, Black Keys, Two Door Cinema Club, Alabama Shakes, Of Monsters and Men, Wallflowers, Death Cab for Cutie, Atlas Genius, The Preatures, The Vaccines, Imagine Dragons, Beirut
Legião Urbana, Plebe Rude, Capital Inicial, Paralamas, Titãs, Ira!, Relespública, Ultraje a Rigor, Kid Abelha

MOVIES:
Ferris Buller's Day Off (Curtindo a Vida Adoidado), Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Contact, Shrek, Star Wars, 2001, The Motorcycle Diaries, Singles, Matrix, Grosse Pointe Blank, High Fidelity, The Breakfast Club, Lord of the Rings, The DaVinci Code, Transpotting, Bourne Trilogy, Up in the Air, Kirschblüten - Hanami, Back to the Future, Inception, Into the Wild, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Across the Universe, The Social Network, A Life Less Ordinary
Movies by Cameron Crowe, Quentin Tarantino, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, Danny Boyle

TV PROGRAMS:
Simpsons, House MD, Property Bros

BOOKS:
Authors: Nick Hornby, Jack Kerouac, Stephen Hawking, Alain de Botton, Dan Brown, Richard Dawkins, Lonely Planet Travel Guides

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sunrise on the top of Mount Fuji (Japan) after climbing up overnight (August/97)
Skydiving in Swakopmund (Namibia), between desert and Atlantic Ocean (June/17)
Baloon ride over temples of Bagan in Myanmar (Mar/15)
Attending Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games during Opening and Closing ceremonies (Aug/16)
Bungee Jump in Queenstown ( New Zealand) 2018
Acatenango Volcano Hike in Antigua Guatemala 2022
Antarctica cruise expedition - 2024

Teach, Learn, Share

TEACH: Portuguese, building energy analysis, bioclimatic architecture, energy efficiency

LEARN: new languages

SHARE: travel tips about cities I've visited in recent past years
2003: Campo Grande, Bonito, Pantanal
2005: Porto Alegre, Montevideo, Ushuaia, Punta Arenas, Puerto Natales, El Calafate, Puerto Madryn, Buenos Aires, Foz do Iguaçu
2006: Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo
2007: New York, Paris, London, Windsor, Salisbury, Bath
2008: Florianópolis, Brasília
2009: Berlin, Budapest, Brastislava, Vienna, Prague, Dresden, Cesky Krumlov, Krakow, Edinburgh, London, Munich, Füssen
2009: Vancouver, Banff, Jasper, Whistler, Victoria
2010: Lima, Cuzco, Machu Picchu
2010: Chicago, Amsterdam, Riga, Tallinn, Rovaniemi, Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo, Bergen, Copenhagen, Roskilde, Mälmo, Geneva, Washington DC
2011: Milan, Verona, Venice, Padova, Assisi, Florence, Siena, Pisa, Rome, Naples, Pompeii, Capri, Amsterdam, Aalsmeer, Rotterdam, Delft, The Hague, Brussels, Paris, Dublin, Belfast, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Reykjavik, Manchester, Liverpool, London
2011: Bogotá, Cartagena de Indias
2012: Chapada dos Guimarães, Nobres
2012: Istanbul, Çanakkale, Kusadasi, Pamukkale, Cappadocia, Ancara, Paris, London, Brugge, Luxembourg, Zurich, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Cinque Terre, Nice, Monaco, Marseille
2012: Itacaré
2012: Phoenix, Grand Canyon, Page, Monument Valley, Moab, Panguitch, Las Vegas, Fresno, Yosemite, San Francisco
2012: Alter do Chão
2012: Dubai, Cairo, Luxor, Aswan
2013: Seattle, Hanoi, Hoi An, Hue, Ho Chi Minh, Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Luang Prabang, Vientiane, Bangkok, San Francisco
2013: Santiago
2013: San Pedro de Atacama, Uyuni Salt Flat
2014: Phuket, Koh Phi Phi, Ao Nang, Koh Lipe, Langkawi, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne
2014: Boston, New York, Costa Rica, Cancun
2015: Kuala Lumpur, Boracay, Palawan, Myanmar, Chiang Mai, Bangkok, Ao Nang
2015: Frankfurt, Munich, Bled, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Zadar, Split, Hvar, Dubrovnik, Barcelona, Formentera, Ibiza, Santorini
2016: Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games
2017: Cape Town, Swakopmund, Windhoek, Okavango Delta, Chobe, Victoria Falls
Next stop:
2017: Barcelona, Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Kathmandu, Krabi
2018: Santiago, Auckland, Rotorua, Wellington, Christchurch, Queenstown, Rarotonga, Aitutaki
2019: Quito, Banos, Alausi, Cuenca
2019: St. Augustine, Jacksonville, Orlando, Las Vegas, New York, San Juan, Charlotte Amalie, Basseterre, St. Johns, Castries, Bridgetown
2020: Paris, Sevilla, Madrid, Lisbon, Porto
2021: Morocco, Qatar, Maldives
2022: Jordan, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Indonesia
2023: Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Dominica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Paris, Lithuania, Munich, Vienna, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Albânia, Kosovo, Greece, Malta, Fiji, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Las Vegas
2024: Antarctica, Argentina, Chile, USA, Jamaica, Bahamas, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyztan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cook Islands, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Viet Nam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Japan

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