Hello! I am travelling around Europe this summer and would love to meet cool people and have places to sleep along the way. I have travelled a lot inside the US (including a lot of hitchhiking and riding freight trains) and have always lived in houses that have travelers coming through frequently.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet local people, have good conversations, have a place to stay, and make friends who can come stay with me in the future.

Interests

I am interested in the reoccupation of abandoned villages, especially in Spain, in local projects of autonomy and sustainability, permaculture (I am certified), gardening, squatting in rural areas and in the city, social movements, botany and native plants, herbal medicine, literature, critical theory, local music (including playing music with people in different places), Jazz (i play the standup bass) food, dancing, wine, nature and wild places, etc.

Tengo mucho interez en la rehabilitacion de pueblos abandonados aqui en espana, proyectos locales de autonomia y sosteneblidad, la permacultura (tengo certificacion), los huertos y jardines, movimientos politicas, las plantas silvestres, medecina botanica, literatura, teoria critica, todo tipo de musica incluindo la musica foklorica de cada region, jazz (toco el contrabajo). Tambien me gusta mucho comer, beber, y bailar.

• culture
• literature
• dancing
• dining
• wine
• gardening
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• medicine
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Music is very important to me, lately ive mostly been listening to jazz as well as learning how to play it on the bass. I am also really into hip-hop, soul, all types of folk music from around the world, anything that makes you dance.

Favorite authors include James Baldwin, Roberto Bolaño, Freddie Pearlman, Adrienne Rich, Borges, most native american literature, Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snider, Italo Calvino.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I built a shack by myself in a redwood forest in California and lived in it for over a year.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Food, chores, help on the garden, music, dancing, answer questions about strange American culture.

Countries I’ve Visited

Chile

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States