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thepilferer

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	Member since:	March 2009
	Lives in:	United States
	Sex:	male
	Born in:	United States
	Has traveled in:	-too many places to name in California, but highlights include Mt. Lassen, Big Sur, Yosemite, Salt Point State Park -a trip with the parents and sister to New York City driving up to visit cousins in Cape Cod and friends in Boston -2 trips with parents and sister to the Pacific Northwest, from Portland up to Victoria and Vancouver, including Olympic Peninsula -Oahu twice, and Maui once, with school band and previously with parents and sister -Vegas (bleh), Southern Utah (Bryce and Zion), and Northern Arizona (Grand Canyon) with parents and sister -Puerto Vallarta and surroundings with 2 friends from high school and college -Southern Costa Rica, San Jose, and Panama City while working on senior thesis for B.A. in environmental studies -Peru (Lima, northern Amazonian Basin, Manu National Park, Cusco, Machu Picchu, Arequipa so far) currently, beginning with friend from work, now solo.
	Wants to travel to:	-Ecuador and Colombia, especially Rio Tena, Ecuador, and Ciudad Perdida, Colombia, hopefully tacked onto this current trip -free trip with friend to Israel via Taglit's Birthright program -pretty much all of Europe once I have the money and time, with priorities hazily drawn like this: Spain, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Latvia (to see where ancestors were from), Lithuania (ditto), Poland (ditto again), France (would be higher on the list but I've heard less than positive things about the people's disposition, especially towards Americans), so on and so forth -Argentina and Chile, especially Patagonia (I thought it would happen this trip, but it simply isn't shaping up like that) -Southeastern Asia -Japan -China, especially Western China -India but not in the cities -anywhere where I have a good purpose to be that feels safe enough
	Favourite traveling style:	I generally like to have something to do besides sight-seeing for the majority of my trips. For example, I have volunteered on ecofarms and on reforestation projects before. I prefer to travel with others. I love the jungle, even despite the mosquitos. I love Latin America and have only travelled places where I know the language (Spanish conversationally and English fluently). I put a higher priority in getting to know the people where I'm visiting than seeing as much as possible. That being said, I certainly appreciate the awe of seeing foreign cultures' productions and foreign landscapes. I like to give myself a lot of time in any place so as not to feel rushed by my itinerary. I like to travel cheaply, but will spend a lot on food (relative to where I travel, not relative to food costs in my home near San Francisco) when necessary to sample the best a region has to offer.
	About (hobbies etc...)	My main hobbies are that I play guitar, play billiards, road bike, mountain bike occasionally, play chess, and cook. The only jobs I've had for extended periods of time since high school have been as a server (waiter) and more recently as a cook. I don't know exactly what I'll do when I return until August when I will return to school to go for a 2nd bachelors'. I love food (that's probably obvious by my above comments), especially spicy food. I love a good argument, free of personal attacks, especially about politics or metaphysics, and extra-especially any argument in which I learn something. I love a good funny conversations with seemless tangents. I love dancing silly-style. I love experiencing the awe of nature, which usually is outside the realm of obvious human development, but sometimes includes it as well (Machu Picchu or the Golden Gate Bridge are good examples). I love jazz, classic rock, funk, indie rock, ska, older punk, '90s rock, some electronica (zero7 and spacetime continuum come to mind), bluegrass, romantic-era classical music, the soundtrack to Ingmar Bergman's Persona). I love the movies of Bergman, Goddard, the Coen Brothers, Kubrick, Kurisawa, Paul Thomas Anderson, Woody Allen, Spike Lee, and a few others, but can't say I love movies as a whole.
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