*****HABLO ESPANOL / FALO PORTUGUES *****

CURRENT MISSION:

Automate and delegate everything.

ABOUT ME:

ME: 40, born in North Dakota, grew up in Nebraska, studied, wandered, worked all over. I'm fascinated by everything international and follow travel trends via various websites. Bloggers/podcasters opened my eyes to new ways of getting from A to B which inspired me to bicycle tour South America and decode frequent flyer programs for free travel.

My free time is mostly spent reading or listening to podcasts, but movies and good food are also high on the list.

Fun Facts: my smile is lop-sided; I flush public toilets with my shoe; I turn off lights; I find poetry in refrigerator word magnets.

Fortune Cookie, February 12th, 2007: "You will travel to exotic places."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

OPENNESS: You write, I write, viceversa. We can share ideas and couches.

Whenever possible I organize gatherings, parties, and dinners with local CS communities both where I live and in cities I visit.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfed every continent. Hosted 50+ travelers in my Texas apartment. More in my Costa Rican, Brazilian, Argentine, Thai, and Colombian homes. Many hosts and surfers remain close friends to this day.

Interests

INTERESTS: Traveling dirty-like; backpacking feather-light; the insanely nerdy bubble that is the miles/points world; podcasts; camping with friends; long bike rides that reset the mind; sushi; studying the psyches of vagabonds, addicts, pirates, criminals, and those on the edge of society; biographies; chess; basketball; people who transcend the norm like Henry Rollins and Manu Chao; being on a beach at sunset and in a jungle at night; learning Latin languages over good coffee; sailing; diving; tropical turquoise waters; hip hop; food that makes your head sweat (Indian, Thai, Mexican); Latin America; thinking up short stories I never write.

I heart miles: milemethod {dot} com
I heart poetry: 365poems {dot} org
I heart bikes: mebobandsurly {dot} wordpress {dot} com

• dogs
• poetry
• wine
• coffee
• movies
• chess
• reading
• traveling
• homesteading
• podcasts
• cycling
• backpacking
• camping
• scuba diving
• sailing
• basketball
• history
• languages
• psychology
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES: Brazilian cinema lately, but I love anything good from high budget Hollywood to independent film from around the world. When I have a home I'll buy a proper projector/sound system and grow a digital collection of world movies for a weekly movie club in my living room. Quote me on it.

MUSIC: I love discovering new music on YouTube. Lots of hip hop randomness lately: Kid Cudi, A$AP Rocky, Skepta, and hip hop lofi compilations while working.

AUTHORS: I try to read uplifting authors but at bedtime I'm always cuddled up with the down-and-outers who live/lived their literature. I'm inspired by adventurers who become writers because their lives are stories needing to be told.

My favorite book of all time is Shantaram.

MEMORABLE BOOKS: Papillon, Flash, Serpentine, Azteca, La noche boca arriba, The Beach, Unbroken

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Here's a list in no particular order:

- Bicycled from Colombia to Argentina
- Whale sharks in Indo, hammerheads in Galapagos
- Wild lemurs in Madagascar, orangutans in Borneo
- Witnessed Wildebeest migration across Maasai Mara
- TranSiberian from Moscow to Beijing
- Lived like a Brazilian for almost one year
- Ten days total on Amazonian river barges
- Island-hopped South Pacific en route to Alaska
- Experienced silence of Great Pyramid tomb with only two other people
- Tried to imagine sacrifices while sitting atop Mayan and Aztec ruins
- Took cruise ship across Atlantic
- Spent NYE with parents on Copacabana
- Waited out a hurricane in thatched house
- Johannesburg to Cape Town in Economy rental
- Drove water tanker in North Dakota oil fields
- Ayahuasca in Ecuador, shrooms in Texas
- Lived with several host families
- Game drives in Zambia, SA, Kenya, Botswana
- Worked two summers at Boy Scout Camp
- Fell in love a few times, messed it up
- Bus'd up and down Central America 3x times
- Lived on sailboat for three months
- Canoe'd Boundary Waters with friends
- Backpacked all over world with my dad

Life is a dream.

Teach, Learn, Share

TEACH: Spanish/Portuguese, how to fly for free.

LEARN: Anything you can teach, but specifically:

1) All about YOU and your area of the world
2) Your systems for organizing business and life
3) How to buy and remodel real estate properties
4) International asset diversification and second passports

SHARE: Our teachings and learnings

What I Can Share with Hosts

Existence.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, American Samoa, Andorra, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, England, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia, Federated States of, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin (French part), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Senegal, Seychelles, Singapore, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin Islands, U.S., Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Hungary, Indonesia, Mexico, Serbia, Spain, Thailand, United States

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