CURRENT MISSION: To give a hand ABOUT ME: Born and raised in Mexico Grass-fed and grown in California. Average introvert guy. Mid of the road between crazy and quiet. I think of myself as very open minded and always willing to try new things. I enjoy intellectual conversations as much as a dancing/drunken night.

INSTAGRAM: @joantonio

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

1) I love the feeling of being a local for a day or two. When I am not traveling, I love hanging out with travelers to feed off their traveling energy.

2) I've met amazing people through Couchsurfing.

3) I cherish the idea of implicit trust (to me it is a leap of faith / traveler honor code)

Interests

• salsa dancing
• capoeira
• beer
• yoga
• walking
• movies
• music
• snowboarding
• languages
• food
• biking
• roadtrips

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC
Love it all! Please have recommendations when you come!

Lately: Alabama Shakes, Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys, Gary Clark, Kaizers Orchestra, Old Crow Medicine Show, Shakey Graves,
Always: GnR, Queen, Cafe Tacvba, Ojos de Brujo, Soda Stereo, Caifanes
Others: Tomatito, El Cigala, Paco de Lucia, Jobim, Sergio Mendes, Los Hermanos, Seu Jorge, Ceu, Astor Piazzola, Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Brahms, Wagner, Debussy, etc etc

MOVIES
Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Forrest Gump, Shawshank, Amores Perros, La Finestra di Fronte, Catch Me if You Can, Cinema Paradiso, El Espinazo del Diablo, Let the Right One In, Shaun of the Dead, etc...

BOOKS
Garcia Marquez, Rulfo, Coelho, Allende, Sabines, Fuentes, Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Goethe, Nabokov, Borges, Garcia Lorca

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Tons of things, but the most amazing one was walking El Camino de Santiago. You basically walk from the France/Spain border all the way to the top western corner of Spain, until you can't walk no more into the Atlantic Ocean. It takes around one month to reach the last town, Finisterre (end of earth), which back in the day was believed to be the last city before the nothing...

What I Can Share with Hosts

A couch, local knowledge, stories, laughter and drinks. If you come on a weekend then we can go explore / party and I can be your guide!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Mexico, Norway, Peru, Spain, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Mexico, United States