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Overview

  • 8 references 7 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning French
  • 41, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • Student/Peace Corps Volunteer
  • University of California Davis, University of California ...
  • From Walnut Creek, CA
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Explore the world and myself by travelng, and meeting, drinking, and playing football (soccer) with other people

ABOUT ME

I love to travel and to play football (soccer). Also learning new languages and pathetically trying to communicate in their most rudimentary forms, usually while at least mildly inebriated.

PHILOSOPHY

Believe what you want to believe and let others do likewise. Imposing religious ideals on others compromises freedom and liberty of free thought.

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." - Mark Twain

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I want people from around the world to crash on my couch so I can learn about where they are from and how they view the world.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Many generous people in Norway, and some thoroughly fascinating travelers who have crashed at my place in Nicaragua.

Interests

Football (soccer), music (hip-hop, especially in languages other than english), eating, long conversations with a beer in hand - or you know, coffee, if you're not so much into boozing, i can do coffee too.

  • beer
  • coffee
  • drinking
  • traveling
  • music
  • soccer
  • languages
  • volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Amores Perros, City of God, Pan's Labrynth, La Haine

Music: Hip-hop, raggae, ska, international...you know, everything.

Books: any "Lonely Planet" travel book, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" - Zubov, "The Stranger" - Albert Camus, "The Fountainhead" - Ayn Rand, "Kitchen Confidential" - Anthony Bourdain, "Cien años de soledad" - Gabriel García Márquez, "Crime and Punishment" -Fyodor Dostoevsky

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Studied in Chile, travelled down the southern coast of Chile and Argentina and decided that Patagonia is amazing. Went to Ushuaia, Argentina and flew to Buenos Aires.

Also have been to Germany and Italy on family trips, and traveled through Norway, couchsurfing most of the way.

Currently volunteering for 2.5 years in Nicaragua.

Teach, Learn, Share

I want to learn other languages. I'm fluent in Spanish, but want to learn more in the future!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Chile, Germany, Italy, Norway

Countries I’ve Lived In

Nicaragua, United States

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