CURRENT MISSION

Finding my limits (therefore, me) through exposure to the unfamiliar, and roughing it!

ABOUT ME

After getting a PhD I choose to enjoy the most unstable years of my life. Dreaming of becoming editor of national geographic. I'm planning on paving my way towards that goal by constant restless vagabonding, taking pictures, writing (even if it has to be bilingual Science Journalism for a while), cooking at greasy joints in Bangkok, making a few dimes fire hula-hooping in Rabat, teaching diving in the Red Sea and learning Kung Fu by the Yellow River.

PHILOSOPHY

"travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain -

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain -

"I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free." Nikos Kazantzakis's epitaph

"We shall never cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time". T. S. Eliot

"Never make somebody a priority, who only considers you as an option" No idea who wrote it

"Devotion will make you complete" From my last fortune cookie.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've shown town to a bunch of people. Now that I have my own place I can finally start giving back offering my couch! I have been welcomed in many places by many wonderful couchsurfers!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Stayed with a wonderful couch surfer in Belem, Brazil. It was an excellent experience! Also stayed with another awesome CSer in Caracas, Venezuela. Traveled with couchsurfers in Iceland.

Interests

Photography, diving, hula-hoop, readreadread, travel, movies, cooking, camping, arabic, dance, bike, cats, live music, hiking.

• cats
• arts
• writing
• photography
• dancing
• cooking
• movies
• traveling
• music
• live music
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• scuba diving
• sailing
• journalism
• languages
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: All of MILAN KUNDERA's novels and the science fiction of JAMES TIPTREE JR, everything that came from the beatnik pen of WILLIAM BURROUGHS, almost all Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde's The portrait of Dorian Gray, La memoria del fuego de Eduardo Galeano, Steppenwolf de Herman Hesse, Gabriela clavo y canela de Jorge Amado, El Tunel de Ernesto Sabato, Bestiario de Julio Cortazar. And in terms of poetry, BAUDELAIRE, casi todos los simbolistas franceses, Bukowski y Mario Benedetti. Tambien Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Jay Gould. Philosophers: Nietzche y Montaigne.

Music: Goth, post-punk, rock latino, electronica. The Cure, Talking Heads, Thievery Corporation, Sumo, The Smiths, Siouxie & The Banshees, Manu Chao, Bauhaus, Billie Holliday, Blondie The Clash, Depeche Mode, Fleetwood Mac, Joy Division, Soda Stereo, New Order, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Portishead, Massive Attack, Mecano, Pink Floyd, Pixies, The Rolling Stones, The Sisters of Mercy, Zero 7 y muchos, muchos mas.

Movies: All by David Lynch, Pedro Almodovar, Woody Allen, Terry Gilliam, Fatih Akin, Coen brothers, Tim Burton, David Cronenberg, Star Wars..

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach spanish and english.
I am a certified and insured divemaster so I can provide scuba diving experience.
I can teach how to make hula-hoops (and hoop).
I can also teach photography (analog, B/N developing/printing lab, digital, photoshop).

I'd love to learn more regional cooking, and some martial art. Languages are always welcome.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Chile, United Kingdom, United States

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