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Overview

  • 6 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Portuguese; learning French, German, Spanish, Swahili
  • 41, Male
  • Member since 2006
  • www.lifeinvitoria.com --- writer, tour guide, husband, fa...
  • degree in psychology
  • From Rochester, New York
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Promote tourism in the lovely city of Vitoria and state of Espirito Santo

ABOUT ME

31 year old Western New Yorker. Writer. Vegetarian. Vagabond.

PHILOSOPHY

Be a vagabond.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I live in Vitoria, Brazil with my lovely wife, Paula. We are in the process of buying a house and will be moving in by September -- once that happens we won't just have a couch available, we will have a guestroom!!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have couch surfed quite a few times and each time was a great experience. It has been a while since I have used CouchSurfing. A lot of my recent travels have been work related and have been staying in hostels or camping. After spending a week in San Francisco in October of 2010 on a buddy's couch I decided it was time to get back into the community. As someone who has been traveling for a majority of the past 6 years, it has become easy to be comfortable in new places and new people. That to me has become the greatest part of traveling -- connecting with amazing people from around the world.

Interests

Learning new languages. Seeing new places. Music. Fire poi. Camping. Gardening. Hiking.

  • animals
  • writing
  • vegetarian
  • gardening
  • traveling
  • music
  • hiking
  • camping
  • languages
  • tourism
  • language exchange

Music, Movies, and Books

Way too much to list here... we can discuss over tea :)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I worked for a small NGO called Path to Africa in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania. My job was to build and maintain an organic vegetable garden for an orphanage that was under construction and being built with funds generated by Path to Africa.At first it seemed like the garden was going nowhere. The tools my partner and I were using weren't the greatest and the ground we tilled had not seen rain in ages. But slow and steady the two of us dug and dug, hauling water from a well and mixing cow manure to help bring some life to the soil. As we fried in the sun, our hands covered in blisters, the locals from the nearby village of Mvuleni began to notice the progress and would encourage us as they passed on foot to their own farms. Eventually, what at first we thought would never happen happened. Vegetables grew. Lots of them. We built a fence out of scrapwood, branches and donated barbed wire to keep the animals out and the New Dublin Organic Garden lives on to this day!

Teach, Learn, Share

I am always happy to help people with learning English and I am always excited to learn new languages. I think language exchange is a vital part of the travel community.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Guatemala, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, Netherlands, Paraguay, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Zambia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, Tanzania

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