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Bacalar, Quintana Roo, Mexico
@luca-mattaliano
Member since 2015
CURRENT MISSION connecting souls growing my spirit and be happy!! Autumn 2024, I went to France in Montpellier for 3 months with the idea to learn French and live in a French town and it was an awesome experience with amazing people I met there (mostly Latinos as always ehehe ). In 2025 I've been in Australia to use my only and last year of the Working holiday visa chance to see that far corner of the world. In 2026 New Zealand and Thailandia then going back to Europe and later at the end of 2026 return to Mexico and Guatemala ti sell my van. Before I was in Mexico and Guatemala where I have done a Van as a motor home and where I sell paintings :) @lucancabur.draws I also have been teaching Italian onlin since 2021, I'm on platform superprof.com but if you want to have classes you can text me here. Before that I have done a big hitchhiking and backpacking trip alone of 3 years along all of the American continent crossing 27 countries almost all made by hitchhiking 😎🎒 I did more or less 100.000km taking 723 rides (now 950) including a sailboat ⛵️ or a police car 🚔 crossing mountains valley deserts glaciers ..camping with my tent or hammock everywhere !!! I received thousands of help and love and i hope to give it back to other travelers that need it ... ABOUT ME I use to be joyful and easygoing but in the last month I settled down my head . I was an engineer but followed my true emotions and I quit my job in searching for a simple happy life ...I find myself emotional, I love meeting people, I don't like wearing shirts and being formal, I love sports, I like cooking and I like art. Moreover, I love sharing experiences and having cultural exchanges also in order to see other points of view. I speak Italian English Spanish and Portuguese (I'm on the way to learn French as well) and I truly love America Latina; probably in my past life I'd been a Latin too eheheh :)) in my last period of my life I got closer to meditation and Buddhism in search for a balanced and happier inner soul.
Interested in Art
Interested in Books & Literature
Fluent in English
Learning French
My ideal travel itinerary: planned or go-with-the-flow?
improviser
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
travelling and sharing experiences enrich our souls in this selfish World.
Music, Movies, and Books
I don't have a favorite music style: if I like a song its genre doesn't matter ... books: "Las venas abiertas de América latina" - Eduardo Galeano "Venuto al mondo" (come to the World) - Margaret Mazzantini. I usually read in Spanish and Portuguese because of I love these languages Movies..mmm I actually don't have a favorite one. I don't like horror (not because they scare me) and the ones where there are just guns and shootings
One Amazing Thing I've Done
- quit my job and leave my usual life to dive into a life trip - hitchhike in all South America, Central America, North America and Some Caribbean islands then Australia and new Zealand - climb a 6088m high mountain in Bolivia - camp with the tent on a truck while hitchhiking - sleeping with truck drivers in their trucks -hitchhike a sail boat - crossing Bacalar lagoon by swimming no stop (4,5km) -Building a Motor Home -teaching online Italian -turning into an Artist - maybe just living in the way I am living now
Teach, Learn, Share
how to make pizza, risotto, pasta,.... watercolor Swimming Italian language How to hitchhike
What I Can Share With Hosts
If I am coming directly from Italy a bottle of wine for sure :) to sip it during nice conversations
My Interests
sport swimming football (Juventus) skiing running traveling meteorology Latin America