CURRENT MISSION

"œLet the world change you and you can change the world" - Ernesto "Che" Guevara

ABOUT ME

Besides my dashing good looks, my sarcasm and wit are mostly what most people notice :) I have read a lot and continue to be intellectually curious and adventurous about living and life. I skydive during the summers, I love music, LIVE MUSIC (very eclectic taste) love archery, fishing, tattoos, camping in the summer, the ocean and traveling. I am a firm believer that "adventure without risk is disneyland." I love volunteering as well and meeting like-minded people.

PHILOSOPHY

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have hosted few folks so far. And have not had any luck personally in a lot of the places I have been to. I have also hosted Movies and Music in the parks during the summers at Loring Park. And few other social/volunteer events.

Meet, learn, share and participate in whatever is going in my city or wherever i am on this planet.

Interests

Camping, literature, coffee and intellectual conversations, cooking, dining out, fishing, movies/Videos, museums and art, music and live concerts, exploring new areas, bowling, pool, performing arts, card games, trivia, playing sports, politically active, political debates, travel/Sightseeing, watching sports, surfing, the ocean, tattoos, local beer, Volunteering.

• arts
• literature
• performing arts
• tattoos
• concerts
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• coffee
• trivia
• movies
• traveling
• billiards
• watching sports
• music
• live music
• fishing
• camping
• surfing
• skydiving
• sports
• bowling
• archery
• volunteering
• sightseeing
• parks
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
Do The Right Thing, Malcolm X, Pather Panchali, Mr Smith goes to Washington, Bicycle Thieves, Pulp Fiction, GoodFellas, The life of David Gale, 12 Angry Men.

Authors:
James Baldwin, W.E.B. Du Bois, Chimamanda Adichie, Sikivu Hutchinson, Steve Biko, Michelle Alexander, Aime Cesaire, Anthony Pinn, Frantz Fanon, Pablo Neruda, Noam Chomsky, Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, Plato, Xenophon, Charles Bukowski, Sylvia Plath, Zora Neale Hurston, Edward Abbey, Chuck Palahniuk, Chinua Achebe, Beat Generation, Gabo, Mark Twain, James Baldwin, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, Jane Austen, Victor Hugo, Audre Lorde, Mikhail Bakunin, Gustave Flaubert, Nella Larson, Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Bakunin, Thomas Paine, Henry David Thoreau, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov, Friedrich Nietzsche, Alexandre Dumas, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, Angela Davis.

Music:
RUSH, Tinariwen, Tribe Called Quest, Tracy Chapman, Bob Marley, Sixto Rodriguez, Iron Maiden, Five Finger Death Punch, Glen Gould, Claudio Arrau, Hopsin, Tech N9ne, Gentle Giant, Debauche, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Ali Farka Toure, Toumani Diabate, Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Momus, Amadou & Mariam, Marilyn Manson, Doomtree, Polica, P.O.S., Metallica, Dio, Bob Dylan, The Heavy, Queen, Johnny Cash, 2Pac, Kris Kross, Swollen Members, K'naan, Boubacar Toure, Tom Waits, Mumford & Sons, The Noisettes, Vampire Weekend, Chubb Rock, Rage against the machine, Deftones, Linkin Park, Foo Fighters, Mana, Los Claxons, Lords of the Underground, Godsmack, Yael Naim, Rob Base, Erick B & Rakim, Ice Cube, Tom Browne, The Goo Goo Dolls, Billy Preston, Lita Ford, Macklemore, Said the Whale, Fendika, Haddaway, Nina Simone, Etta James, Alan Jackson, Keigo Oyamada, Trace Adkins, Kool and the Gang, Pliers, LL Cool J, Gema Corredera, Santana, Frank Sinatra, Village People, Elton John, Florence & the Machine, The Qemists, Anilyst, Dean Martin, Tammy Wynette, Fort Minor, Beethova Opas, Trampled by Turtles, Natasja Saad, Atmosphere, Scroobius Pip, Eyedea & Abilities, MatchBox 20, Jean Sibelius, Franz Liszt, AC/DC, John Lee Hooker, Kofi Olomide.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Jumping from a plane 2400 feet AGL going 115 mph.

Driving two weeks through the Great River Road, camping, fishing and enjoying two weeks of a road trip from top to bottom through 10 states along the nation's backbone.

One week of camping and exploring Route 66 along 8 states, from IL to Cali.

US Route 89 - The West's Most Western Highway. Lush desert, rocky plateaus, towering mountains and over 20 national parks. Over 1800 miles, considered to be America's most scenic hwy.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Colombia, Ireland, Mexico, Netherlands, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Colombia, Ireland, Netherlands, United States