I love the freedom to explore different cultures and have new experiences. I spent about 4 years backpacking around Latin America and Asia. I'm back in the USA now, living in St. Pete, FL for a couple years years, working on my business and waiting for the travel bug to bite again ;-)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love meeting CS locals while traveling, going out for drinks or food, and exploring the places I'm visiting. CS is great for meeting like-minded people and learning about local culture. I surfed a few couches and had really great experiences. CS is an awesome community. I really want to get more into surfing and meet more CSers wherever I am in the world.

I had my first actual surfing experience in Buenos Aires back in 2009 and it was so much fun. Then I surfed in Peru and Brazil. If you're in St. Pete, drop me a line and let´s hang out!

Interests

I love traveling (of course!), psychology, meditation, philosophy, martial arts, playing guitar, learning languages, good food and drink, tennis, yoga, golf, hiking, camping, writing, website building, learning about people and cultures, nature, reading meaningful books, and I love hanging out with apathetic, sympathetic, diabetic old men on roller skates with a marked propensity towards procrastination and sloth.

• arts
• culture
• writing
• books
• dining
• cheese
• meditation
• drinking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• hiking
• backpacking
• camping
• surfing
• sailing
• skydiving
• martial arts
• tennis
• golf
• languages
• law
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

I like too much of everything... but just to give you an idea:

Movies: The Big Lebowski, Monty Python´s Search for the Holy Grail, The Sting, Pulp Fiction, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Caddyshack, Blues Brothers, Lost in Translation...this list could go on and on.

Music: Marley, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Clapton, BB King, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, Al Green, James Brown, The Meters, Jack Johnson, George Clinton, Nina Simmone, Vivaldi, Bach, Otis Redding, Talking Heads...I like pretty much everything but gangsta rap and bad country.

Books: Papillon, On the Road, Walden, Dune, Into the Wild, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Letters from a Stoic, Stranger in a Strange Land... lots of travel/adventure books and biographies, and almost anything relating to psychology & philosophy.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I worked as a crisis counselor in a secure psychiatric unit for several years. And in my humble opinion, talking down a 250lb paranoid schizophrenic murderer is a way bigger rush than skydiving.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Fiji, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Uruguay, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Costa Rica, Peru, Thailand, United States

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