CURRENT MISSION

Arrive in San Diego wiser, bolder, and with purpose.

ABOUT ME

Daniel: Fire dancer, gymnast, foodie, and musician. Currently a newly-minted physician who has been placed in San Diego, for his residency. Loves dogs, has a mutual non-aggression pact with cats. And bees.

Leah: In the past few years I've lived in Dallas, Boston, Austin, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, North Carolina, and now San Diego! I love traveling, eating sketchy street food in Latin America, and getting on buses wtih unknown destinations. I've lived several lives, including preschool teacher, human rights activist, and Central American bum. After graduating with a Masters in Public Health I'm currently footloose and fancy free before I start my new job running public health research studies in Mexico, India, Russia, and Central America.

PHILOSOPHY

Carpe Canum (unless it doesn't want to be seized).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I teach the hokey-pokey. Also, handstands! Cartwheels! Oops, there is apparently a section for stuff like this. What's supposed to go here then? Howabout this: I participate by being a nice, friendly, responsible individual that makes a positive impact on the lives of others.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None yet! ...unless you count the time I tried to surf my couch.

I (Daniel) have lived in one place for 10 years... and now have to get to San Diego for Residency.

Interests

Leah: Seeing live music, scuba diving, Scandinavia murder mysteries, kids, dancing like a fool

Daniel: There is almost nothing I am disinterested in... I love learning things.

• cats
• dogs
• books
• photography
• dancing
• human rights
• dining
• running
• traveling
• music
• live music
• scuba diving
• gymnastics
• teaching
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

Daniel: Bebop, Baroque, Prince, Funk, The Avengers, Y: the last Man, Call of the Wild, Leaves of Grass, Gordon Lightfoot... this could just go on.

Leah (who apparently has a long list)
books: anything by phillip roth, anything by ian mcewan, anything by rilke, season of migration to the north

movies: shortbus, vampire hunter d

food: I've never met a type of food I don't like... except mayonaise... it just seems suspicious...

shows: anything by alan ball

music: air, amadou & mariam, andrew bird, antony & the johnsons, the avalanches, bb king, basement jaxx, beach house, beck, beirut, belle & sebastian, beta band, billie holiday, bon iver, bonnie prince billy, the books, broken social scene, camille, cat power, chopin, cibelle, daft punk, discovery, dirty projectors, dj danger mouse, dom, eels, emily haines, feist, flaming lips, four tet, grandaddy, howlin wolf, jj cale, joan as policewoman, jon brion, the knife, lcd, magnetic fields, manu chao, metric, mirah, mylo, nina simone, of montreal, okkervil river, os mutantes, pavement, radiohead, robyn, seu jorge, sia, sigur ros, squarepusher, stars, sufjan, wavves, the weeknd, wilco, yeahyeahyeahs, yo la tengo

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Leah: Bribing the Guatemalan government to give me a pass to enter the ruins at Tikal with the world's foremost expert in Mayan ruins.

Daniel: I once saw a jumping spider jump like 6 feet in the air. (O_o)

Teach, Learn, Share

Leah: Central American slang, how to survive on rice and beans for two years.

Daniel: Hmm. Assorted Gymnastics stuff (as mentioned above), general workout advice, how to build your computer/repair it/overclock it, how to repair your garbage disposal in your sink, medical stuff, everything about comic books ever, photography skillz, dance skillz, music jamz. I'm a library of esoteric oddities.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, France, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Spain, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States