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Overview

  • 1 reference
  • Fluent in English; learning Spanish
  • 40, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • Formerly a project manager, and then a social researcher.
  • Bachelors in Government, Masters of Public Administration
  • From Austin, Texas, USA
  • Profile 75% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Standing up straight and breathing deeply.

ABOUT ME

I just completed my master's degree, and I'm traveling in Malta, Andalucía, and Morocco for six months. I'm interested in sustainable transportation and city planning.

PHILOSOPHY

So it goes.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

New to this, but mainly by trying to find traveling partners in morocco at the moment. Plan to do some hosting when I return.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None so far.

Interests

Bicycling, swimming, yoga, rock-climbing, reading, sketching, playing the banjo.

  • sketching
  • cooking
  • yoga
  • reading
  • traveling
  • rock climbing
  • swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

Recently:
Knowledge and Power in Morocco. Dale Eickelman.
In Morocco. Edith Wharton.
Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca.
Tales of the Alhambra. Washington Irving.
Wanderlust: A History of Walking. Rebecca Solnit.
The Hedgehogand the Fox. Isaiah Berlin.
The Cossacks. Leo Tolstoy.
Death in Venice. Thomas Mann.
Demian. Hermann Hesse.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The Alhambra at night.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: cooking, yoga.
Learn: Spanish, Arabic

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