CURRENT MISSION

Travel

ABOUT ME

I'm the owner of a big smile and a
broad taste for adventure. I haven't always (or barely ever) walked
the beaten path, and I try and live by my ever evolving set of rules
and values as best I can. I try to be a good human being. I am a life
observer, a world traveler and a resident, light and dark, good and
bad, a thinker, an admirer and a critic, a lover and a fighter. I'm
passionate about life and I LOVE living. I'm not sure what the
purpose of this life is, but I love to talk and debate about it
endlessly. I'm drawn to people with a sense of wonder and an open
mind. My friends range from 8 to 80. I've moved to a new
country/city after a five minute conversation with a stranger in a
bar. I'm not sure if it makes me impulsive or not but I always try
and go with my gut. I have, so far, managed to not take this crazy
planet or my place on it, too seriously, and while I doubt I'll
change in that regard, I'm always open to change. I'm a nature lover,
an adventure lover, a music lover, a book lover, a sports lover, an
arts lover, an animal lover, and above all a human lover. I laugh
easily and loudly. You probably don't want to sit anywhere near me in
a comedy club or a funny movie. I love monkeys, waterfalls and
mangoes. There is so much good and so much to love in this world I
sometimes can't understand how people find time to hate things or
even find enough things to be upset about. I believe life is short
and that we need to make the most of it, and while some people say
this, I truly try and live my life accordingly. I don't think life is
easy. I will forever be grateful to my parents for giving me deep
roots and soaring wings. Beauty moves me....whether it be in nature,
an idea, art, literature, architecture, music or female. I like
photography. I take crappy pictures but love admiring great ones.
Always happy to listen to people with something interesting to say. I
believe we are constantly changing. Life, experience, and time change
us whether we like it or not in varying degrees. I'm not who I was
last year and I won't be the same person in the next. I think life is
beautiful. I think knowledge is oxygen. I think human relationships
are key.

PHILOSOPHY

One life to live....can't let a day go ~JayZ

Perché sono iscritto su Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I haven't stayed put for too long in the past couple of years but I hope to some day!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Tried it out in Venezuela since I couldn't find any information about anywhere out and had already been robbed a few times so I figured help couldn't hurt....think it's an amazing help and a much nicer way to travel!

Interessi

Sports, Travel, Finance, Books, Food and Wine

• animals
• arts
• books
• literature
• architecture
• photography
• beauty
• oktoberfest
• dining
• wine
• beer
• running
• partying
• clubbing
• boating
• traveling
• music
• surfing
• sports
• track and field
• swimming
• beaches

Musica, film e libri

Don't watch much TV as I haven't actually lived much of anywhere for the past couple of years...and while I love movies I haven't seen anything in an actual theatre since longer than I can remember haha...

Una cosa incredibile che ho fatto

I've ran with the bulls, and broken 3
ribs because of it in Pamplona. I've spent time in a small jail in
Paraguay, swam in the highest waterfall in the world and almost died
swimming in a hurricane. I've climbed the highest tepui mountain in
the world and almost got stuck at the top of a mountain in Brasil
until I made a rope out of vines and got myself down. I've sipped
champagne on lazy afternoons with billionaires and sipped dirty water
on equally lazy afternoons with the homeless. I've showered with a
bucket and a bowl while spending a week with a family who've never
had running water in Colombia, gone months without hot water in and
showered in the endlessly running waters of countless waterfalls
around the world. I've slept on a beach in Rio, a bench in Barcelona,
a street in India, a floor in Venezuela, a board with 3 other people
in Colombia and stayed in some of the world's best hotels, even slept
in a castle once. I've ran 3 miles to try and save a bird's life and
I've sat and watched as someone was hacked to death with a machete
only a few meters away from me. I choose my battles. I've been in the
largest food fight in the world in Spain and eaten some of the
world's best in France. I've been chased with a gun in Colombia,
chipped my tooth on a gun that was shoved in my mouth while being
robbed in Venezuela and shot everything from a bazooka to a machine
gun, an M16 to a Colt 45. I've traveled in steerage class on 30 hour
long train ride in India, frozen to death on 18 hour long bus in
Colombia, got kicked off a bus for refusing to stop surfing on the
roof in Nepal, flown in a private jet in America and even flow a
small 4 seat plane myself in France. I've tried to break into Pablo
Escobar's old compound in Colombia, danced with a pirate on a beach
in Peru and chased Mexican locals around a beach in Acapulco. I've
lived on a Caribbean island for two months, been to what I'm
convinced is the best island in the Philippines, and the best party
island in the world in Spain. I've raved in a cave in Ibiza,
practically called the Ritz Carlton in Miami Beach my home, spent
days on end sipping cervejas and caiparinhas at Posto 9 in Rio,
watched too many sunrises to count while coming home from nights out
in Barcelona and started just about every night out for a month with
a bottle of gin and a good friend in Paris. I've drank some of best
beer in the world in Belgium and chugged some of the best at
Oktoberfest in Munich. I've eaten some of the best steak in the world
in Argentina, gotten sick off gelato in Italy and taken advice from
a group of swans I thought could talk in Amsterdam. I've charmed a
snake and spent 10 days meditating 10 hours a day in an Indian
ashram. I've trekked the Himalayas and found a love for swimming with
and washing elephants in Nepal. I've tried to track a tiger in a
jungle and spent an afternoon watching a rhinoceros take a bath. I've
debated philosophy with scholars and with people who were illiterate.
I've been in some of the poorest and some of the most dangerous parts
of the world and to many of the finest, and I still can't tell which
I liked more. I think that life is a pilgrimage. My life is something
like a small boat in the middle of an ocean driven by the weather and
the tide, all I carry is faith. I dream, I search, I love, I share, I
live. 

Insegna, impara, condividi

Everyone, everywhere

Paesi che ho visitato

Argentina, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Netherlands, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela

Paesi in cui ho vissuto

Brazil, Colombia, France, Spain, United States