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Overview

  • 5 references 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning Chinese (Simplified), Portuguese
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Toursim Development Consultant paired with freelance writ...
  • UCSB
  • From Born in Ohio but grew up outside of DC (McLean VA)
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Being home after 5 years out of the country.

ABOUT ME

I do what I can to see as much of the world before life ties me down with too many responsibilities. Spent the last couple of years leading trips in Latin America and confusing small English students in Shanghai. I like good books, well made drinks and anyone who can teach me something new.

PHILOSOPHY

Straight lines only exist in geometry.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've crashed on more couches than I can recount. The people have always been great, and now that I'm back home I'm perma-crashing on my people's couches. Would LOVE to take someone out and show them my city.

Interests

Worn out shoes, inappropriate dancing, Mexican wrestling, and ridiculous stories.

  • books
  • dancing
  • drinking
  • wrestling

Music, Movies, and Books

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Milan Kundera, Herman Hess
Modest Mouse, Radiohead, Miles Davis

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I slept in 368 beds over the course of two years through the wilds of Latin America. I just traveled from the Yellow Sea to the Baltic by land.

Teach, Learn, Share

The harmonica
A new perspective
who knows

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Colombia, Ecuador, Portugal, Spain

Old School Badges

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