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Overview

  • 1 reference
  • Fluent in English, Spanish
  • 47, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Postdoc at University of California, San Francisco
  • PhD in Biochemistry (Bioinformatics)
  • From Salamanca, Spain
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Explore the world. Make world-class friends!

ABOUT ME

I am a outdoorsy person, but I enjoy cities as well. I'm not a very bars oriented person, I prefer doing something instead: concerts, restaurants, etc. Only drinking is not my favourite activity.

PHILOSOPHY

I have a bunch of sentences that I like to mention as something that would be my philosophy:

- Love many, trust few, harm none (Shakespeare)
- Political view: freedom. Religion: freedom
- Live and let live.
- When I hear, I forget. When I see, I remember. When I do, I learn. (Chinese proverb)
- Life is suffering. Attachment causes suffering. There is a way to escape suffering. The way is composed of 8 rules with increasing difficulty. (Buddha).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Just new!

Interests

Climbing, mountaineering, photography, kayaking (beginner), reading, biking, hiking, etc...

  • photography
  • concerts
  • causes
  • drinking
  • reading
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • kayaking
  • mountaineering
  • rock climbing
  • cartography
  • religion

Music, Movies, and Books

Huge movies fan.
Book's rat (although I can't read as often as I would like)
My type of music is rock, but I'm expanding tastes.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Yosemite NP
Olympic NP
Sequoia NP
Los Pirineos.
Bryce Canyon NP
Zion NP
Grand Canyon NP
Los Picos de Europa,
New York
Climbed Royal Arches, Yosemite
Climbed Pico Urriellu, Spain
Did El Camino de Santiago biking.
Got a PhD

Teach, Learn, Share

I cant teach photography at intermediate level.

I can teach you how to read maps, climbing, mountaineering techniques.

I can introduce you to programming computers.

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