My name is Kris and I'm back to my hometown of Austin, TX (after living in NYC and Buenos Aires for 20 years).

Traveling has always been exciting for me, and I enjoy meeting people from different backgrounds and cultures.

I really love music and I like to play the guitar and sing and write songs.
I'm also a breathwork facilitator and hold weekly sessions to help people release suppressed emotion through different breathing exercises.

I have a dream to create a musical travel journal one day, writing a song in every city I go to, maybe collaborating with other musicians from that city, and then recording it there. Someday!

I'm gay, so please be comfortable with that if you send me a request.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

In New York City and Buenos Aires, I hosted people from all around the world. And as a guest I've been hosted by amazing people in Turkey, Chile, Brazil, Canada, USA, Argentina, Bolivia, and Japan.

I've met some of the most amazing people CouchSurfing. Honestly it has changed my life and the way I have experienced so many places.

Interests

singing, guitar, writing songs, music, reading, hiking, tennis, pickleball, paddleboarding, breathwork, yoga, pilates, painting, exploring, traveling, meeting new people, adventures, people watching, languages, living, loving, breathing, laughing, sleeping, dreaming, eating (ahh!!), and other things ...

• writing
• singing
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• music
• guitar
• swimming
• languages
• food

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC: Tori Amos, Björk, Joni Mitchell, Caetano Veloso, Tim Buckley, Adrianne Lenker, Big Thief, Andy Shauf, Joanna Newsom, Ani DiFranco, Radiohead, Kate Bush, Jeff Buckley, Sufjan Stevens, P.J. Harvey, The Doors, Sigur Rós, Jorge Ben, Robert Wyatt, Patti Smith, The Beatles, Fiona Apple, Umm Kulthum, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Steve Reich, Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Philip Glass, John Adams, etc.

MOVIES: Pedro Almodóvar, Lars von Trier, Michel Gondry, Alejandro Jodorowsky are some of my favorite directors … I also love watching nature/animal and space documentaries.

BOOKS: I’m a self-improvement / spiritual book junky (I love David Hawkins, Eckhart Tolle, Pema Chodron, Joseph Campbell, Krishnamurti, Carl Jung, Don Miguel Ruiz, Joe Dispenza, Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Asha Nayaswami, Autobiography of a Yogi, A Course in Miracles, The Law of One, Bhagavad Gita)

Fiction I love: Milan Kundera, Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, Carlos Castaneda, Paulo Coelho, Gabriel García Márquez, Alice Walker, James Joyce, Jack Kerouac, Letters to a Young Poet, The Little Prince, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Crime and Punishment, The Prophet, Harry Potter, etc.

POETRY: Rumi, Federico García Lorca, E.E. Cummings

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Thaipusam festival in Malaysia (wow!), safaris in Tanzania, South Africa and Botswana, gorilla & chimpanzee trekking in Uganda, hiking on Perito Moreno Glacier in Patagonia with crampons, swimming with sea lions, turtles, penguins and sharks in the Galapagos, trekking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, Carnaval twice in Brazil, geisha dances in Japan, riding an elephant through the jungle in Thailand, floating in the Dead Sea in Israel, visiting Petra in Jordan, seeing the pyramids in Giza, Egypt, the Taj Mahal at sunrise in India, going to the top of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, scuba diving in the beautiful Maldives, took a road trip all through the USA/Canada with friends, and many more amazing, beautiful things !

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can tell you about all my favorite places and make suggestions. Hopefully I'll be able to visit some places with you as well, but depends on my schedule.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Aruba, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Maldives, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, United States

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