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Overview

  • 51 references 24 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, English, Spanish; learning Catalan, Valencian, French, German
  • 43, Male
  • Member since 2006
  • English teacher... Or whatever's needed...
  • Yes, I have some... but I forgot how to eat with a fork.....
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Live every moment

ABOUT ME

We lived in China for 3 and a half years... So many things to tell about our life Mario (El Salvador), and Amy (USA)...

We are easy-going, we love to try new beer... We saved up some money to travel around and went back to El Salvador and got hitched!!!

We stayed in El Salvador for about a year, and then went back to China for one more year...

Finally, we're back in the USA and loving Austin.

PHILOSOPHY

The best school in the world is traveling... Happiness comes from cultivating compassion

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Sharing information and tips... At least more accurate than lonely planet...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We've had some people over in China... then we surfed our way thru india and europe...

Interests

Traveling, Music, Languages... Eco-friendly developments

  • beer
  • flying
  • traveling
  • music
  • soccer
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Mario:Reggae... especially Manu Chao... Books? Seven years in Tibet and... the art of happiness...
rage against the machine, sublime, pearl jam, soundgarden, operation ivy, los fabulosos cadillacs, soda stereo, lumumba, BOB MARLEY!, santana, pink floyd, illya kuriaki and the valderramas...

Amy: all of the above plus love to Kat Edmonson and bluegrass sounds. Sucker for the fiddle and accordion!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Six people on a motorbike... amazing if you live in the west... normal if you live in southeast asia...

Amy did "Camino de santiago", she walked 700 kms...

Mario... I've "survived" too many things: 3 earthquakes (the last one 7.9 richter), volcano eruptions, a flying motorcycle accident, a fat chinese football player landing on me, a bean in my nose when i was a child, a fishbone in my throat cuz i ate fast, and 12 years of civil war in my country...

Teach, Learn, Share

We learn from places and people that we meet on our way to somewhere...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Belize, Cambodia, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Japan, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, El Salvador, United States

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