CURRENT MISSION

To spread love, receive love, recycle love, retrofit love, upholster love, sugar-coat love, deep fry love, find love, lose love...

ABOUT ME

Hi! I'm Tomas. I'm a simple person with simple tastes, but gallons of enthusiasm. I love immersing myself in new locations and foreign situations. Being an ESL instructor allows me to travel in style & hone my teaching skills along the way. I love teaching, but it's mostly a way for me to get around so I can surf where there's a coast, ski where there's a mountain, and play music with as many people as possible.

PHILOSOPHY

As Flea said, quoting the ButtHole Surfers:
"It's better to regret something you did, than something you didn't do"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm pumped up to be part of the couchsurfing community. I must say, I was skeptical at first, but once I found out that this whole process actually works, I was hooked.
I`ve had

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Seattle with Eric & Gabe. Buenos Aires & La Plata with María & her family. Santiago! Alejandra & Karsten. Viña del Mar with Mr. Max Mystic Surfer.
Perú & Bolivia with a few people.

Interests

Playing Music, Reading, Eating! (top 5 foods by ethnicity: Mexican, Japanese, Italian, Thai, Indian), Cooking, Wine, Beer & Spirits, Wandering, Hiking, Surfing, Skiing, Martial Arts, Disc Golf, Mini-bike Polo, Learning Languages, and Traveling, of course!

• arts
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• instructor
• reading
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• surfing
• skiing
• martial arts
• bike polo
• golf
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Tom`s Top Movies: Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, The Big Lebowski, Braveheart, El Laberinto del Fauno, Monsoon Wedding.

Favorite Bands: Beck, Inti Illimani, Pearl Jam, Mars Volta, Pink Floyd, Sonic Youth, Primus, Radiohead, Mr Bungle, Got You on Tape, Portishead, The Evens, Arctic Monkeys, Metallica, Melt Banana, G-Love & Special Sauce, At the Drive-In, Peter Tosh, Neil Young, Los Tres, Beck, Tom Waits, Red Hot Chilis, She & Him, Los Bunkers, Feist, Bjork, Burning Spear, Beethoven, Soundgarden, La Caro Band....

Books: Into Thin Air, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Grapes of Wrath, Memoirs of a Geisha, In Patagonia, everything by Dr. Suess...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

An alien seven feet tall with three long fingers on each hand visited me at night when I was about 10 years old. I only saw the silhouette and it appeared to have a bowl haircut. I laid in bed staring at it for about 10 minutes and it gave off a loving, motherly vibe. It reached for me and I got scared and turned away. When I gathered the courage to turn back around, the visitor had disappeared.
True story.