Hi! I'm Marco but everybody calls me Delo. I'm from the north of Italy, precisely Forlì, in the heart of that wonderful land called Romagna.

I'm a curious person, so it's only natural that I'm fond of traveling: since I was able to go around autonomously, I tried my first "exploring" experience, took a flight to the other half of the world and visited Malaysia and Bali for a month. After I realized that it was neither difficult nor expensive, I kept doing it! Unfortunately enough, I'm not always around the world, but if I am, I just love to get in contact with local cultures and the people who live in the places I end up in.

"Il mondo è bello perché è vario" (which means "the world is beautiful because it's diverse") we say in Italy, and I can consider this one of my mantras: if you go on holidays, you will always do the same thing you can do in your country, just maybe in a better looking beach/mountain/city/name it; but if you go traveling, you're not on holidays, you're actually working (a lot) both on your personal self and on the people you encounter.

So after my month in Asia, I spent a year studying abroad, half of it in Turkey and the other half in Chile, from where I was able to see a bit of South America: visit Patagonia, Bolivia, Peru and Brazil, and dive in the positivity of a continent that lives with the buena onda (good vibe).

So far I have spoken about my love for travel, but I'm fond of Couchsurfing especially because it makes you travel even if you don't move from your house: every time you host somebody new, you hear a new surfer's story, and your imagination starts another journey.
As I said I'm curious and I like to meet new cultures, but (usually) you (a normal person) can't always go. In those moments, hosting somebody else it's a very good way to feel as if you're on a journey.

I know and share the philosophy of Couchsurfing because it's something that allows people to understand that we're all beings on a spinning ball, and we have to respect the ball, but my love for knowing new stuff about the world pushes me to go even if I don't have a proper budget and sometimes I found myself quite desperate for a shelter. In those cases, some nice CSers were real life savers, and I'll never forget them!
For this reason, I don't mind getting requests from people just in need of a roof. It's my way to repay the kindness I received!

My philosophy:

Il mondo è bello perché è vario.

Never do to others what you don't like to be done to you.

Sort that trash!

Seek discomfort.
(this is a quote gently taken from Yes Theory's homonymous brand, so credit to that crazy bunch of fellas for this moto, which I share to the deepest point of my heart).

Leave no material trace. Leave a spiritual/emotional/intellectual trace.

You are the center of your universe. When you're in balance, you can balance the people you love. When they're balanced as well, you all can balance the other people around you and so on. But if you are not helping yourself for your personal sake, you can't help anybody else.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Made a profile for curiosity, found an awesome guy that helped me when i needed shelter, wanted to payback that kindness with the same to the rest of the world.

Interests

I really like to meet new people and deal with different cultures. I like architecture, photography (tripsspots.tumblr.com here are some of my works), literature, and art in general; movies and videogames; slacklining and open air sports. I'm in love with hiking, trekking and camping in the middle of nature. I go crazy with dogs.

In the last years though I started to be fond of all the new technologies that are being invented, the new ways of living that are being developed, and how they can help us in respecting and cleaning our world for leaving a better future to the next generations than the one we're seeing in the horizon now. I like to believe that we can still save this planet, that human beings true potential is kindness and that we're not good only at destroying things but also at building them!

Music, Movies, and Books

Books

- P. F. Hamilton, The void trilogy
- R. Rogers, Cities for a small planet
- T. Hickman & M. Weis, Dragonlance Chronicles
- F. Herbert, Dune

Phantasy and sci-fi books in general, because they keep making me dream with eyes open.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Climbing up the Gunung Batur vulcano in Bali to see the sunrise from the top.
- Staying in an indigenous village in the middle of the jungle and having a bath under a waterfall in Borneo.
- Seeing a 'Martian' sunset in Valle de la Luna and and the brightest and clearest Milky Way of the world in Atacama desert.
- Losing any sense of proportion and feeling like living in another dimension in Salar de Uyuni
- Climbing all the steps up to Machu Pichu to see the face of the Andean Man and wonder how they made it
- Being climbed by macaques in Uluwatu temple, Bali.
- Snowboarding and trekking in the Alpes (so far my favourite place in the world)
- Camping and hiking a week in Patagonia between wild animals, wonderful forests, mighty glaciers, turquoise lakes, and monumental peaks.
- Eating my granny's food, every day.
- Ice bathing in a freezing river, which I do usually when I go trekking in winter and which is the best thing you can do to yourself if you know how to do it (aka Wim Hof Method)

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach (or better what I could teach): BIM and Architecture, Process optimization and integration.
Learn (what is on my list): Software Development for construction, Gardening, how to built a retreat for a community of friends.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My curiosity, open-mindedness, and desire to travel and make new experiences (culinary ones absolutely included), as well as the stories of my travels and the wish to hear other people's travel stories, so that I can do those journeys as well with my imagination.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, San Marino, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Chile, Germany, Italy, Turkey