Hello!

My friend Cassie and I are travelling together for a year. We'd love to meet some locals to learn more about the places we visit, and to make close friends and memories along the way.

Our trip is roughly:
Nov 2024 - Feb 2025 Patagonia, Nov/Dec in Chile and Jan in Argentina
Mar - Apr, India
May - Jun, China
Jul - Aug, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Sep - Oct, Turkey + Balkans

We both love spicy food and trying new foods. We do not eat much meat.
We like accompanying locals to experience part of their local life, and going to cultural experiences, trying new food, hiking and seeing nature.
We're both pretty quiet, and we don't like clubs or places with loud music. Cassie doesn't drink alcohol nor do any drugs. I never drink much.
We hike a lot and scuba dive too.

We both grew up in Texas and went to university in Houston, then lived near San Francisco for a few years for work. After the pandemic Cassie lived in Tokyo for 3 years and Jesse was a digital nomad, mostly in Asia and Latin America. This profile used to just be for Jesse, and most of the references are for him.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to meet other people! I want to meet people who have had very different lives from me, learn about cultural differences, and make new friends.

I don't have goals to travel to x number of countries or anything like that. I'm just trying to learn and understand how the world works.

When hosting, I just really like sharing. I like sharing the places that I know and like, and like helping others have nice experiences like I've had.

Interests

• cooking
• walking
• gardening
• movies
• music
• hiking
• backpacking
• camping
• scuba diving
• snorkeling
• parks
• mountains
• food
• tea
• forests
• trekking
• plants
• diving
• deserts
• long walks
• spicy food
• drinks
• gardens
• bonfires
• cactus
• senderismo
• montañas
• bosques
• camping and hiking
• matcha
• gardening,
• hacer senderismo

Music, Movies, and Books

Cassie reads a lot of science fiction. I listen to lots of podcasts on economics and history.
Some of are favorite movies and animes are:
Cowboy Bebop
Dan de Dan
Dorehedoro
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood
Into the Spiderverse
Odd Taxi
and most films by Miyazaki

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Scuba dived with sea lion pups in La Paz
Saw humpback whales jumping in Hawaii
Walked among the trees of Sequoia National Park
Hiked the Narrows and Angel's Landing of Zion National Park
Spent 2.5 months in Patagonia, driving south from Santiago until Ushuaia and back north through Argentina, hiking a total of 649 km with 35 km of elevation gain.
Road tripped across Xinjiang
Saw sunset over the clouds in the mountains of central Taiwan
Explored Angkor Wat
Saw the northern lights dancing over a lake near Seattle

What I Can Share with Hosts

Mostly we like spending time with our hosts, exploring the surroundings together, trying the local food, and learning about the local life and culture. We'd be happy to buy you dinner or other meals or at least help pay for groceries.

We have lots of stories, recommendations, suggestions, and contacts around the world that we can share. And of course, if we're ever hosting somewhere else in the world you'll have a place to stay as well :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belize, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam, Virgin Islands, British

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, China, Colombia, Japan, Mexico, Thailand, Turkey, United States