CURRENT MISSION

Read the top ten novels ever written, and write write write!

ABOUT ME

A man of many trades. A craftsman of mundane tenacities. A wise man, an intelligent man and a fool.

PHILOSOPHY

Passion is the elixir of gods, why should humans not be content with chasing after it?

Por qué estoy en Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I host, I surf and I give recommendations.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I met a guy on a bus in Boston, it's been years now and I can't remember his name, but he was kind and openminded and he tuned me into couch surfing.

Intereses

I love books, mountains, politics and playing chess. Those four vehicles can take my mind anywhere I want to go, like a magic carpet. I also really like to learn about culture--I think it has a great potential to let us explore our sensibilities, our views about life, and how other people think and feel, as well their history.

• culture
• cooking
• beer
• politics
• technology
• traveling
• hiking
• surfing
• geography
• languages
• mountains
• international politics

Música, películas y libros

Books: Disgrace by John Maxwell Coetzee, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Leguin, Amor en Tiempos de Cólera by Gabo, La Condesa Sangrienta by Alejandra Pizarnik, Sobre Héroes y Tumbas by Ernesto Sábato, Hollywood by Charles Bukowski, Siddartha by Hermann Hesse, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests by Tom Wolfe.

Music: Sonny Rollins, Caetano Veloso, Franz Ferdinand, Radiohead, Fela Kuti, Modest Mouse, The Clash, Gorillaz, The Allman Brothers Band, The Chemical Brothers, Cream, Tom Waits, Seu Jorge, Gilberto Gil, The Cure, Fugazi and Manu Chao.

Movies: El beso de la mujer araña (Manuel Puig), Pantaleón y las visitadoras (Fracisco José Lombardi), The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino), Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood), Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick), No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers), Down on the Waterfront (Elia Kazan), Equilibrium (Kurt Wimmer) and Rushmore (Wes Anderson).

Algo increíble que he hecho

Snorkeling with hammer-head sharks in the Galápagos Islands; summiting Volcán Cotopaxi; swimming in the Napo River; reading Ana Karenina; meeting the Dalai Lama; and meditating 45 days in Lumbini.

Enseña, aprende, comparte

I can teach you how to play chess and how to cook cebiche and encocado.

Qué puedo ofrecer a los anfitriones

A place to sleep on, cooking utencils, bathroom/showers, good talk and company, and recommendations on what to do.

Países que he visitado

Canada, Colombia, Greece, India, Nepal, Sweden, United Kingdom

Países en los que he vivido

Brazil, Ecuador, India, United States

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