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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Live, love, laugh, help people with their dreams
ABOUT ME
Entrepreneurs traveling, working, and enjoying people everywhere we go. Energized by positive, thoughtful, fearless souls. We love to explore new places and challenge our worldview, and others a bit too. We love helping people find their passion or make a living / business of it. Through our work, we help people launch and grow projects/ventures they are passionate about. We also publish a bilingual newspaper.
PHILOSOPHY
Living well is an art...and there are a thousand ways to do it.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Hosted all kinds of surfers, including CS ambassador and staff from CS headquarters. Surfed in Europe and Mexico.
Interests
People and their opinions, wine, entrepreneurship, creative arts, creative people, authentic food, authentic conversation, and travel of course...
- arts
- writing
- design
- graphic design
- photography
- dining
- cooking
- wine
- traveling
- business
- entrepreneurship
Music, Movies, and Books
Music - Tom Waits, Southern Culture on the Skids, Ry Cooder, blues, alt country, etc.
Books - The Science of Being Great, Power of Now, White Trash Cookbook.
Movies - anything with Johnny Depp, nothing with Jennifer Aniston.
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Saw the top of the Aztec pyramid buried beneath La Catedral Metropolitana in Mexico City.
Teach, Learn, Share
Can teach English or Spanish more proper than most people want to speak it.
Small biz marketing. How to launch your own little enterprise, make mobile income.
Basic, abstract, architectural, and low light photography - actually made a living of it for a while.
Basic Indian cooking and advanced cooking in our own style (often experimental but always yummy)
Writing, editing, graphic design, websites.
What I Can Share with Hosts
Lessons and laughs from travel, business, life. Love of cooking and the art of living well (travel, health, money, etc.).
Countries I’ve Visited
Albania, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States
Countries I’ve Lived In
Canada, Croatia, Greece, Mexico, United States