CURRENT MISSION

To travel indefinitely!

ABOUT ME

I am plotting my escape.

PHILOSOPHY

Focus on the picture, not the detail.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'd like to familiarize myself with the project by doing a little bit of surfing. For now, I'm hoping to travel. Indefinitely. Once I've shed the transient lifestyle, I'd love to host... but who knows where that will be!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm new to the community. Some friends have been raving about it for months, but I've only just started to seriously look into travel. I thought this would be a nice place to start out.

Interests

I'm really into food. I'm all about trying new things/old things in new ways. I love language, but I'm still working on perfecting my Spanish. I'm an amateur photographer with a decent camera and a keen eye, but that's about it. I'm all academic and I'm looking for some practical application of the things that until now have only existed in books.

• books
• dining
• traveling
• surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

The "top played" songs on my itunes are equal parts reggaeton and folk(ish) rock. I adore Juanes and Tito el Bambino and play them alongside Death Cab and The Decemberists. Add a little mainstream to the mix (Incubus, Coldplay) and you've got the strange cocktail of sound that does it for me every time.

Movies that reveal meanings, walks of life and perspectives that others may not consider otherwise always catch my interest. I love it when there is a message involved. That said, I also find it amazing when people take a real world context and make it fictional, like in Children of Men or Slumdog Millionaire.

My top picks: Diarios Motocicletas, Juana la Loca, Slumdog Millionaire, The Constant Gardener, Blood Diamond, you get the picture!

Everything on my reading list right now is Guatemala related. I'm currently reading "Searching for Everardo: A Story of Love, War and the CIA in Guatemala" by Jennifer Harbury. Another of hers, "Truth, Torture and the American Way" is next on my list.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have been to the United Nations, twice. I've sat in the seats in the main chamber of the General Assembly. Say what you will about the UN, but any organization that brings together all nations to agree even on the smallest of things is okay in my book. Its mere existence should be commended as a foundation for a shift in focus from that which divides us to what we have in common: a planet where entities are not islands and our actions affect everyone.

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