ER Doc, dancer, civil rights activist, shisha connoisseur, and foodie/epicurean running a travel business that has taken 900+ backpackers around the world for the past 4 years.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

Interests

Medicine, Travel, Global Justice, Dancing,, Cooking, Mixology, Languages, Staying Hungry

• performing arts
• dancing
• tango
• civil rights
• womens rights
• dining
• cooking
• cocktails
• running
• traveling
• business
• languages
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

Music -- Anything that makes me move. A sample: Telepopmusik, ATB, Zero 7, M83, Jimmy Eat World, Incubus, Jeff Buckley, Joey Eppard, Gustavo Santolalla, Explosions in The Sky, This Will Destroy You, Cliff Martinez, Jose Gonzalez, Clint Mansell, Tycho, Ulrich Schnauss, Jon Brion, DJ Tiesto (pre-2005), Deep Dish, DJ Shadow, Arcade Fire, Chemical Brothers, Lykke Li, Feist, Foo Fighters, Garbage, The Glitch Mob, Kaskade, Karen O and the Kids, Res, REM, Shiny Toy Guns, This Wknd, Calvin Harris, Nine Inch Nails, Erik Satie, Debussy, Beethoven, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff

Movies -- Lost in Translation, Before Sunset, Before Midnight, Fight Club, Her, Vanilla Sky, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, anything written by Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Synedoche New York), most Christopher Nolan

Books -- 100 Years of Solitude (or anything Gabriel Garcia Marquez), A Year of Magical Thinking (or anything Joan Didion), Siddhartha, Life of Pi, The Alchemist (most Paul Coelho), High Fidelity, About A Boy (most Nick Hornby), The House of God

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Finishing med school.

Everyday I try to do one thing that scares me.

Teach, Learn, Share

Travel/Flight Hacks, dance (hip hop, breakdancing, bhangra, bollywood, modern, salsa), food, wilderness medicine, stories from the ER.

I can't help but keep moving, while keeping my day (or night? can't tell anymore in the ER) job as an ER doctor, hoping to inspire other young people that you can travel the world without sacrificing time or money

http://www.monsoondiaries.com/

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories, willingness to learn, travel advice, or simply being that little (or big) signpost on the road that is your life.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Anguilla, Antarctica, Argentina, Aruba, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, French Guiana, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, North Korea, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin (French part), San Marino, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, India, United States