CURRENT MISSION

travelling in central america with my sweetie

ABOUT ME

I've usually got room on my couch (when I have one) for folks who need it and I've enjoyed amazing hospitality, most generously from people who have very little, but share it all. I've found out hospitality is reciprocal, but not always directly...I might not stay with the folks who stay with me, but with their mates, or their mates mates, or folks in their wider communities.
I joined CS because I like the idea of extending the networks of people who I can meet or stay with (and vice versa) to folks I might not otherwise have met.

PHILOSOPHY

still thinking about what Eduardo Galeano wrote in 'Days and Nights of Love and War' (1983)
"The tree flies", says the poet "in the bird that leaves it."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I haven't stayed with anyone from CS yet, but traveling around a lot I've found generous folks who will give me a ride, a feed, a place to stay or local knowledge about great camping spots. It makes the world easier to get around in and the traveling more adventurous... less mediated by guide books.

Interests

cheesy duets of busking standards
pulling capitalism up by the roots
deifying the underdog
good food around the kitchen table

• books
• dining
• gardening
• traveling
• camping
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Currently struggling through 'The Uncomfortable Dead' by Subcomandate Marcos and Paco Ignacio Taibo and lapping up 'My Life as Me' by Barry Humphries
John Water's 'A Dirty Shame' was fantastic!!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

minding a 4 year old in London last week, we went out to an Italian restaurant after a day in the park. watched her eat spaghetti ...amazing.

Teach, Learn, Share

*can share
organic gardening (especially food production) in temperate climates
complaining about hierarchies in collectives
*would like to learn
successfully confronting hierarchies in collectives
latin american spanish
banjo