CURRENT MISSION

passionately embrace the entire world

ABOUT ME

I travel, make art, listen to music constantly, lend a hand in the occassional archaeological dig...exist beyond the realm of informational text boxes.

PHILOSOPHY

“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

host and be hosted.

Interests

Humans, all sorts of good music, travel, the wilderness, art (painting, drawing and photographing, and also just looking at it), books, food.

Anthropology (especially indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous rights/issues, environmental anthropology and cultural ecology, archaeology of Latin America).

• arts
• books
• dining
• walking
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• music
• hiking
• snorkeling
• rock climbing
• anthropology
• ecology
• languages
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Folk, pyschadelic, alternative, progressive, electronic, jazz, latin, tropicalia....

Omnivore's Dilemma, Siddhartha, Dharma Bums, Ishmael

Thin Red Line, Motorcycle Diaries, Amelie, Babel, Full Metal Jacket, Annie Hall, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Alamar, I Heart Huckabees, Darjeeling Limited.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiking down avalanched Alps in Switzerland, walking Pompeii at sunset,
snorkeling in Belize, spending summer in Paris, climbing stairs of death with spider monkeys at Tikal in Guatemala, heat stroke in west texas, all the beautiful mountains/valleys in America, thousands of stairs to Machu Picchu, and every single day I spent in Brazil....

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach drawing and painting.
I want to learn languages and musical instruments.
I can share great music, great travel stories and suggestions.

Countries I’ve Visited

Aruba, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States