To "experience" and savor a place, it's culture, and connect with whomever I'm with, rather than just look at a place. The most meaningful travel adventure I've been on thus far was when I stayed with my Brazilian friend for two weeks. I felt like part of her family. I ate all kinds of new foods (vein sausage, cows knees, feijoada with pig snouts and ears, chicken legs & hearts... but I loved the wild boar and other Brazilian BBQ). We hung out with her college friends locally (Sao Paulo) and travelled to her extended family's homes and farms. I loved it. I washed a lot of dishes in gratitude. I went back later as a tourist and it was NOT the same.

Any music that is really well done. Genres include dance music as featured on c89.5 fm worldwide dance radio, alternative rock featured on 107.7 FM Seattle, some of the current pop music is okay, too. If the mood is right, I have a love of great classical composers. Music I collected in high school: Smashing Pumpkins, Tori Amos, and PJ Harvey. I grew up playing classical piano music and listening to "Oldies" (e.g., Johnny Cash "Walk the Line", Herman's Hermits "There's a Kind of Hush", Creedence Clearwater Revival "Bad Moon Rising", Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel "The Sound of Silence"). Books: mostly non-fiction like cookbooks and personal or spiritual development. Last book I read about a real person was "My apprenticeship with a Mayan healer". I don't own a TV. Is that blasphemy? I enjoy movies socially (kind of like drinking): Sci-fi, funny or feel-good movies.