Dopo 15 anni senza questo sito, è buono di ritornare a Couchsurfing! Vado all'Italia in Marzo 2024 e vorrei conoscere la gente lì! Di 2007 a 2009 ho avuto più di 100 persone e amavo assolutamente conoscere i viaggiatori. Avevo formato a provare quella cosa si chiama "matrimonio." Adesso sono eccitato a ritornare al paese di miei antenati. Studiavo in Roma per due mesi in 2004, e questa primavera il mio gruppo ritornerà per un riunione di 20 anni. Spero di parlare la lingua, mangiare il cibo, e camminare le strade dell'Italia. -------- After a 15 year hiatus, it's good to be back on CouchSurfing! I will be headed to Italy in March 2024 and would love to meet up with some folks out there! From May 2007 to late 2009 I hosted well over 100 people and absolutely loved getting to know people passing through town, but took a break to try my hand at that "marriage" thing for a while. Now I am excited to return to the country of my ancestors. I studied in Rome for two months in 2004, and this Spring my group will return for a 20 year reunion. I hope to speak the language, eat the food, and walk the streets of Italy.

CURRENT MISSION: I'm starting life over on my terms. ❤️ ABOUT ME: I'm someone who fell sick with Lupus and other conditions. Therefore, my profile is set to maybe and not yes because when I can host depends heavily on my health. I have good days and bad days. On my good days I like to hike the mountains or trails, ski, sled, visit hot springs, camp, etc. and taking my guest with me along for the ride. My personality is ENFJ. I'm free-spirited, independent, maternal, responsible, easy-going, and almost always down for anything. Fellow nomads feel like my tribe to me. I find that I'm most connected with travel-minded persons. I feel we share common traits, ideas, and likenesses. I enjoy nature, enjoy hole in the wall spots, and good food. I really enjoy meeting people of all cultures and learning as much possible from the many people I meet. I find we are more alike than different. PHILOSOPHY Live Life Now!

CURRENT MISSION Update August 10, 2025: Retired from my last career in June 2024. Now still getting used to being retired. Finished my Graduate Degree in Exercise Science May 2016, AKA, Exercise Physiology; started a new job and career as a Clinical Exercise Physiologist at U of NM Hospital giving cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation in Feb or Mar. I finally retired in June 2024. '17 ....got hired at half time job....more mission.....; Can I do another Marathon?, can I do a Half Ironman?...and, it would be a "life achievement to complete an Ironman distance triathlon before I check out from the earth. Want to cycle across the U. S. kind of northern route summer, wanted to try again (tried once and it was "practice" training summer 2012) some summer 2015 (keep moving it to another year..."things" keep happening and I keep putting it off...damn....almost 72 (Apr 2015) and gotta get it done before...you know...while I still can...). I also recently got my first motorcycle ever and want to ride it across Canada, Vancouver to PEI with some side trips. What to do? ABOUT ME Don't know what to say. Do know Life is Good and I have lived a charmed life. About age 62 the real morph started as I learned about endurance athletics, starting with training and doing my first ever Marathon that year. The discovered Triathlon and did my first Olympic Distance a few months later at Austin, TX. That caused me to discover cycling. Was encouraged to try a Century and did my first the fall of 2006. Been doing it all since. In 2011 made my cardiac rehab goal (mitral valve repaired..open heart surgery at Cleveland Clinic Mar 11th, 2011)...made my rehab goal to do a Marathon. 6 months after surgery three of my daughters did a Half Marathon with me...how proud I was they did that...and 7 1/2 months after open heart surgery completed the Marine Corps Marathon..yep...fully recovered from open heart surgery. Didn't succeed with an attempted solo cross county bicycle trip summer 2012, but keep training to try again, thinking summer 2017 or 2018??.can't put it off too long. UNM Advisor recently said "Man on a mission" My boy said "You inspire me".... Believe me, he is the inspiration. On Dad's Day he said a most important thing he learned from me was to help people when you can. He's not my biological son; he's the one I sorta adopted/he sorta adopted me...what a warm feeling the day he introduced me to someone as his American Dad, the one I started helping because I could, helping him to train for his World Olympic Games participation goal. And, I'm Dad to four of the most amazing young women there ever have been. These daughters are all strong, independent, productive, contributing to society women and I am so proud of them. Each of them is a special gift. I didn't know how to be a Dad when I started having them and they taught me as time went by. I can't emphasize how much I've learned from these wonderful women. Really, I learned more from them than I feel I could ever have taught them. After raising them and they are all adults, I only now feel I know enough to raise a child. I'd probably adopt more if I could. Several Team in Training friends have said "..you're an inspiration". A couple or more have flatteringly to me said "...my hero". A young man told me one day "...my dad wouldn't even help me like you are" ...it is OK to check my facebook page and see for yourself what they say. The biggest reward is seeing someone succeed at a goal. I don't seek recognition for helping, but it happens. Believe it or not, I'm humble, but I'm also thrilled with life that has been so good to me. And,to learn about Santosha a few years ago and discover I had it. Can't get any better. Oh, BTW, you may see the chronological age of 73, but don't let that scare you that I'm an old guy. Well, I guess I am an old(er) guy, but, to me, 73 is the new 35 or 40 or 45 or so. When I was told I was acting like a kid, all I did was say "Thank you!" I did just get my first skate board in June 2013, but having trouble with balance on it. My grandkids and daughters are gonna help me with it. PHILOSOPHY Positive....Life is Good....Just do it...It is what it is....etc. UPDATE April 2025 . Retired from my last career as a Clinical Exercise Physiologist giving cardiac rehab and pulmonary rehab to patients withi various heart and lung issues at a couple local hsopital outpatient clinics.

www.AimlessVagabond.com www.twitter.com/AimlessVagabond www.imdb.me/villa CURRENT MISSION I'm not searching for happiness. I seek to be interested and interesting and if happiness comes as an occasional byproduct of that search, it's welcome. Good food and good company (even if the company is my own) will sweeten the search. I LOVE FOOD! ABOUT ME I often get asked, "What did you do in your last 'real' job?" I try to play coy and simply state that I was "in sales." The logical follow-up question is: "What did you sell?" At this point I can continue being evasive and let people begin to suspect I did something illicit, or just come clean and confess the truth, which is that I used to be a vaginal cream salesman. Yup. I'm not proud of it, but before becoming a quasi-retired vagabond, I was marketing women's post-menopausal healthcare products through a multinational pharmaceutical company which shall remain nameless (I follow the superstition to not utter evil's name out loud or in writing). Now that we got that out of the way... These days I do a lot of random things, including training cops to not kill people, write about craft beer for several international publications, communications strategizing consultation, photography, modeling and occasionally I'm an actor. So if you think I look familiar and you love Better Call Saul, those things are related (I promise I'm less of a thug in person than the characters I usually play on television and movies). Although I love home, the best times of my life have been spent on the road. I love to travel, but in a grassroots way. I don't mind staying in dingy rooms, hitch-hiking, and boarding vehicles with livestock if it means I get to know the down-and-dirty locals. I spent a year and a half bouncing around Europe and another half-year in Brazil, where I learned to speak Portuguese. I was fortunate enough to run with bulls in Pamplona, ski the Pyrenees, trek the Amazon, and scuba in the Caribbean. I also spent several years bouncing around southeast Asia, India, and Nepal. There have also been stints in East Africa and doing some volunteer work with refugees in the Mediterranean. The worst job I ever had was a 9-month stint as a Disney slave...but I followed the underground railroad back to New Mexico and I'm emancipated now. I was a tourism marketing director for the government before moving to sales. Unfortunately, my job required plenty of travel and business travel sounds much more glamorous than it actually is; there is little glamour in being in a car or plane hours on end and spending night after night alone in sterile hotel rooms. Then again, I did like it better than a desk job. Although I workout 4-5 times a week when not traveling, I am definitely not a health nut; I enjoy good food and drink and refuse to deprive myself of either. Plus, moderation has never been my motto. Having said that, my health is one of my biggest priorities, I just don't let it become an obsession that prevents me from enjoying my life. If I'm being honest with myself, I hit the gym for the ego boost it gives me to not look like a slouch. I would say that one of my biggest faults, out of many, is that if I don't eat when I'm hungry I get really cranky. It doesn't seem to be as big of an issue for other people because they don't seem to get as hungry as I do, nor as often. I'm seriously considering that my voracious hunger must be a medical condition. It's an issue that I control in mixed company, though, so don't let my admission keep you away. I'm not a creature fanatic, but I do like some people's pets...these days, horses kind of freak me out, though. For some reason, I can't shake my prejudice of monkeys: I think they are evil. I LOVE elephants. I spend every New Year somewhere new. Its my tradition. So far I've spent New Year in Juarez (Mexico), Barcelona (Spain), Acuna (Mexico), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Durango (US), Denver (US), Las Vegas (US), Pasadena (US), Guadalajara (Mexico), Chihuahua City (Mexico), San Cristobal de las Casas (Chiapas-Mexico), Cuzco (Peru), Hanoi (Vietnam), Guwahati (India), Utila (Honduras), Casablanca (Morocco), Eldoret (Kenya), Istanbul (Turkey), Puerto Vallarta (Mexico), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Chios (Greece), Cabo San Lucas (Mexico), Sedona (Arizona), Holbox (Mexico), Xoxocotlán (Mexico), Costa Rica, Mexico City (Mexico). PHILOSOPHY If you're going to do something, do it raw or get out of the way. I tend to easily get bored with people who are prudish, overly cautious, or incurious. Yes, that river pond is probably a cesspool of amoebic dysentery, but look how much fun the kids playing in it are having. If they're not dead, surely you won't be either, right? Get in, move away from the shallow end, make a splash, and if you must, try not to swallow.