Ever since my first, unexpected trip to Brazil when I was 12 I've been dreaming of traveling the world. I love meeting people, discovering new ideas, cultures and places.

After graduating university I took a long trip through South America, starting at the World Cup in Brazil and working our way up to Colombia, documenting the journey and making videos for Breaking Borders.

I am an visual artist and aspiring beatnik. I love dense urban cityscapes and the great outdoors.

In 2021 I drove my van from San Francisco to Key West with my partner Thais, from Brasil. We were on the road for 5 months and explored many amazing places.

I wrote a book about the journey, including lots of photos, maps, and stories, called Highways Less Traveled: A Van Journey Across America

Instagram - Instagram.com/nickneumannsf
YouTube- youtube.com/wearebreakingborders

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've met so many amazing people on CS. I really enjoy hosting people and showing them my city. It is a great way to transform into a traveler in my city and look at it through a new lens. I love exploring big cities and getting to know them from the local perspective. I feel the most comfortable in cities where I can blend in like a local and just walk around discovering new places. There is always something interesting to do, see, eat and photograph.

Interests

Film, photography, wild places, cityscapes, geopolitics, journalism, reggae and psychedelics and festivals,

• photography
• documentaries
• burningman
• live music
• filmmaking
• psychedelics
• dub
• urban exploring
• documentary photography
• street photography
• bass music

Music, Movies, and Books

Dub, reggae, psydub, tribal, deep house, bass music, old school hip hop, brasilian style from forró to funk.

Documentaries, Spaghetti westerns, Salt of the Earth, Tarantino, Coen Bros, Todd Phillips comedies.

Shantaram, Operation Sunflower, Lord of the Rings, Electric Coolaid Acid Test, historical non fiction

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

That time I lived in a Maasai boma for a week and drank goat blood for breakfast.

Teach, Learn, Share

I love to share my yearning to learn about the world, discover new music, talk travel and filmmaking.

“If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.”
― Anthony Bourdain - RIP

What I Can Share with Hosts

Let's discover new music together! I'd be more than happy to share some of the music I have collected from around the world.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, England, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Palestine, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Tanzania, United States