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Overview

  • 37 references 17 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning English, Spanish
  • 44, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • Gypsy
  • Educated
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Anything worth doing, is worth over-doing.....

ABOUT ME

Well me, so i'm a traveler. My parents where travelers, actually they met while my mom was in the peace corp in Peru, and my dad was a starving photographer, couchsurfing peace corp homes across South America.

I basically I was created by and for this kinda thing. I finished college, and now i'm just going. I live in Europe, cause I am a citizen of Ireland as well as USA, so i'm going to work and travel all over.

I hope to participate in lots of outdoorsy things, like rafting, hiking, camping, mountain biking, snowboarding, as well as long nights of drinking and getting to know peopole. That is really why i'm traveling, I love people, so I need to go meet more of them.

PHILOSOPHY

Well I have had to explain this to a lot of more sedintary types, why I want to travel around the world now. I was told by a very experienced world traveler, that "a thermarest will never be as comfortable to sleep on, as it is right now". So that means go now, cause it will be harder, later.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Cs is seeping from my pores, I surf I host, I do language tandems and just about everybody I meet hears about CS.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have met so many cool people, friends that I will keep for life. People that insipire me and challenge my perception of everything. People who teach me and learn from me as well, and mostly people who renew my interest in this world

Interests

I love the outdoors, people, music, and laughing. The best is when laughing gets incorporated in the previous 3. Cooking, eating, sleeping, not sleeping, making, destroying, asking, answering, finding, loosing, being knowledgeable, and being ignorante, etc...

Photography is also really big in my life. By that I mean I need to make it bigger, so i'm going to go and take more pictures.

  • culture
  • photography
  • cooking
  • beer
  • drinking
  • traveling
  • juggling
  • music
  • outdoor activities
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • camping
  • snowboarding
  • history
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

I like lots of music, i'll just list some of the few.
Kraftwert, Mala Rodriguez, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Public Enemy, Caribou, MGMT, Louis Attaque, Fat freddy´s drop, Robert Johnson, R.L. Burnside, Taj Mahal, David Bowie, Mercedez Sosa, Muse, Charly Garcia, Patricio Rey, Wild billy childish, Tribe, the pixies, el mató una policía motorizado, Led Zeppelin, Sissor sisters, Hot chip, Old crow medicine show, Gillian Welch, Alison Krause.

Movies I don't watch much, but some I love are Blow up, Clockwork Orange, Trading spaces, Sexo con amor, The big lebowski, El viento nos llevará, Robin hood the cartoon, and the best ever Brazil.

Books are great, keeps me traveling. I like many books like Phaselock code, Shantaram, Prosperity without growth, La sombra del viento, Soñar en Cubano, Historia de una gaviota y del gato que le enseño a volar, El Alquimísta, Eva Luna, Cíen años de Soledad, anything by Noam Chomsky, The last hours of eternal sunshine, The moor´s last sigh, The great gatsby, Slaughterhouse 5, The battle for Spain, Spanish Cockpit.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Rafting down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon for 18 days.

Salar de Uyuni

Snorkling in Portugese Man of War mating grounds.

Learning to Juggle

Seen the sunset on 6 continents

Seen the utopic society progressing through collective intelligence.

Teach, Learn, Share

I love to bake bread, it´s very spiritual. I would love to teach you to make bread. I also make beer, and will teach you to do that too.

I love learning languages, feel free to teach me about your language. I also love history-culture so i´m into hearing your story.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Gibraltar, India, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Spain, United Kingdom, United States

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