perennial transplant Oviedo, ESP > Reno, NV > Portland, OR > Washington DC > now in STL for graduate school.

travel is built into my career choice, which has sent me overseas often (europe + near east mostly).

travel lures: architecture (Gehry, Alhambra), food (nytimes reviewed bullshit - dining 'experiences'; street food; goat roasts), booze (places: of love & regret - bmore; amor y amargo - ny; sideproject - stl; tastes: arak, sour beers, bitters), art (reina sophia; parc guel; el segundo; glenstone), museums (trotsky museum - cuided de mexico, DF; rockefeller archaeological museum - jerusalem; musée de la chasse et de la nature - paris); landscape (negev, picos de europe, dartmoor nat'l park).

I promise I'm only half as pretentious as I'm presenting myself. I am horrendously embarrassing in person, so I keep it tight on paper.

Cheers!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

i hate being a tourist and locals know all the best spots anyway.

Interests

good food, good booze, good people. order varies.

otherwise...
i look at bones, i love cities, and i ride my bike places.

• arts
• architecture
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• traveling
• cycling

Music, Movies, and Books

Included, but never limited to:

Movies: kurosawa, jarmusch, saura, gilliam, carruth, & encino man, for laughs.

Music: animal collective, of montreal, beach fossils, bjork, dirty projectors, generationals, dinosaur jr., nirvana, tribe called quest, sharon van etten, television, david bowie, the yeah yeah yeahs, future islands.

Books: east of eden, 100 years of solitude, jitterbug perfume, wild sheep chase, and a growing list of non-fiction on china, lawrence of arabia, and information technology.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The bike ride up "El Fitu" in Asturias ending with a view of the Cantabrian Sea.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach me to cook something. Food is my love language.
As for me...I can build a mean fire.

What I Can Share with Hosts

a good laugh, a long conversation, and a healthy dose of sarcasm.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Spain, United States