Our home is a backpack 🐢

CURRENT MISSION: Visiting family and friends around Brazil (finally!)

Me and my lovely partner Bruno travel by walking, hitchhiking and/or train or buses if we need to cross long distances in a short time. Let’s meet for an adventure!

I’m an art-teacher and Bruno is an illustrator. We also do a lot of hospitality work along the way and sometimes we volunteer with WWOOFING.

Traveling for us is about being open to the unexpected, not making much of a plan and letting life flow as we flow with it. Trying to make every day a surprise, keeping our bags and spirit light.
Travel can be looking at a mirror, trying to transform what’s familiar in exotic, searching for the anthropological-blues as we come back to our home country every now and then and realize it is as exotic as everything else.
As we cross many people that we might not see in person again, we have an opportunity of exercising kindness without expecting nothing in return, a kind of kindness towards the collective, the universe, the flow. In the end is not even a difficult exercise to do since most people are also kind, acting with kindness is nothing more then returning it.

Beyond philosophizing we really like eating 😋

[COUCH] : When we are spending time at the farm, you are welcome to stay with us. Access to internet here is limited so it might take a few hours for replying to requests.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

CS gave us some dear friends, travel buddies, adventures shared, stories to tell, the kindness of strangers, a scape from mass tourism and the opportunity of reattribute all the care that was given to us.

Interests

• performing arts
• street art
• photography
• dancing
• education
• yoga
• walking
• reading
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• sports
• swimming
• art history
• history
• art
• food
• nature
• trekking
• climbing
• analog photography
• jamsessions

Music, Movies, and Books

Recently Gong Indonesian music.
Any movie of Tarantino, Sofia Coppola, Roy Andersen, Kubrick.
Any book of Herman Hess, Virginia Wolf, Julio Cortaza, Cecilia Meireles,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

🚐 Lived in a van for 18 months
👍 Hitchhiked in Europe, Australia and Southeast Asia.
🚶Walked the Camiño de Santiago backwards
🥾 Hiked over 800km
👁 Seen a whale eye to eye

Yet more being made…

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: Portuguese, Brazilian recipes, a card game called "Shit Head" which is kind of like UNO with a sort of surprise round. We also bring checkers, backgammon, Exploding Kittens and we can teach other card games if you like.
Learn: New recipes, games and how to say “lighter” in your language.
Share: Food, drinks and a good time!
Couch: Private room with bathroom in a farm.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Hanging out, adventures, fun chats and deep talks 🤙🪂😂🕳
2 pairs of handy-hands 🙌 🙌
Help with cleaning, fixing stuff, painting, gardening, pet sitting 🧹⚒🎨🌱😻
Cook delicious meals 🍲🤌
A big list of movies to watch (a lot of alternative ones that you usually can’t find on a streamer) 📝🎥
Mate (tradicional South American tea) if we have any left 🧉
Games ♟🎲🧩
Bring household necessities 🧻🧼🧴

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Brazil, Norway, Portugal, United States