CURRENT MISSION

Travel in South America

ABOUT ME

Hi everybody, I'm a journalist traveling a year or so in South America. I've stayed out way too late in Lima, dug a hole in Nasca, rocked out in Arequipa, worked and farmed potatoes in Cusco, and now I'm on to Bolivia.

My travel website is here: www.chris-lewis.net/travel

PHILOSOPHY

"Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a gang member in Neza, a rocker in the National University, a Jew in Germany, an ombudsman in the Defense Ministry, a communist in the post-Cold War era, an artist without gallery or portfolio.... A pacifist in Bosnia, a housewife alone on Saturday night in any neighborhood in any city in Mexico, a striker in the CTM, a reporter writing filler stories for the back pages, a single woman on the subway at 10 pm, a peasant without land, an unemployed worker... an unhappy student, a dissident amid free market economics, a writer without books or readers, and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains of southeast Mexico. So Marcos is a human being, any human being, in this world. Marcos is all the exploited, marginalized and oppressed minorities, resisting and saying, 'Enough'!"

-Marcos, Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional leader

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Totally new!

Interests

• writing
• books
• photography
• traveling
• jewish
• economics
• journalism
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

The Motorcycle Diaries
The Usual Suspects
Etre et Avoir
Underground hip-hop
Classic rock
Reggae
All kinds of books, mostly non-fiction

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Studying abroad in Cuba--few Americans get the chance.

Teach, Learn, Share

Spanish, English, photography, writing.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cuba

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States