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Overview

  • 3 references
  • Fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish; learning Japanese, Sanskrit (Saṁskṛta)
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Enterprise Sales at Microsoft
  • Harvard University, Yale School of Management
  • From Berkeley, CA
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About Me

Cannabis entrepreneur and crypto enthusiast from the San Francisco Bay Area! I love travel and the couch surfing community and have been on here for almost a decade.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

How I participate:

Hosting surfers, going to local CS events, surfing

CS Community Experience:

Gatherings in San Francisco, hosting, now travelling

Interests

Cannabis, cryptoassets, languages (Spanish, Portuguese), meditation, travel, nature, reading and learning, ashtanga yoga, Thai massage, electronic music

  • writing
  • yoga
  • meditation
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • electronic music
  • hiking
  • backpacking
  • kayaking
  • surfing
  • rock climbing
  • languages
  • software

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Herman Hesse, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, poets, philosophers, and leadership development mostly

Movies: Cohen brothers, Baraka, Cidade de Deus, Pedro Almodovar, Julio Medem, international film

Shows: not much TV

Music: Good electronic music, Seu Jorge, El Camaron de la Isla, Fela Kuti, jazz,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Was inducted as a monk in several Japanese and Burmese Buddhist monasteries, descended Pao de Acucar in Rio via the sketchy back path, got dengue fever in Nicaragua, mucked around Angkor Wat

Teach, Learn, Share

Spanish, Portuguese, finance, ashtanga yoga, acroyoga, writing, solar photovoltaics, finance, ayurveda, Thai massage

What I Can Share with Hosts

Introductions to amazing people, Thai massage, acroyoga, languages, cooking,

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Canada, France, Greece, Italy, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, Romania, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Cuba, Guatemala, India, Japan, Nicaragua, United States

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