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When I was a boy, my uncle told me about his solo bicycle trek across Central America. I grew up wanting to do that too, so I studied Spanish and computer engineering. On my first trip, I climbed the tallest mountain in the Andes (Aconcagua), then I explored Peru. My second trip was a solo bicycle trek across Central America, then I got a job in Tokyo. Now I've spent more than 10 years travelling the world, mostly with my wife Lili. We got married in Brazil, then we toured Africa by public bus, then we moved to New Zealand (nobody saw that coming), and now we are New Zealand citizens! Here's our travel blog: David and Lili's World Tour.
I speak English, Spanish, and Portuguese fluently, plus intermediate French and some Japanese. I still practice Footbag (Hacky Sack) and Yoga, but my knees are no longer up for Ultimate (Frisbee) or Soccer. I ride my bicycle religiously, always have. Sometimes I burst into spontaneous juggling. I am honored to share that I have been recognized by my peers in my favorite sport, and inducted into the Footbag Hall of Fame. Now I'm the Director of the HoF, and I'm building the new Footbag.org platform using Claude Code (wow). Here's the GitHub repo for the open-source project. Here's my Curriculum Vitae (I am open to finding a great new job, as the Footbag platform work is almost done).
In other news I wrote a novel: Globalocity - The Adventures of Raymond. Go around the world with an attitude, and a secret sub-plot. Go with Raymond. Globalocity gets excellent reviews because it is interesting and engaging, fun fiction. Global velocity! This book will grab you and take you for a ride. Check it out.
As an intrepid world traveller, I have visited gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, and humans in the wild, so I can testify that we humans talk better than our furrier cousins, but we don't climb trees as well. Based on heaps of evidence, I believe that Evolution is not just a theory, but a fact. How else could we possibly hope to understand human history and the origin of our instincts? Therefore we are all Trained Apes (and some apes are trained better than others). The good news is that empathy is in our nature. Thanks for surfing my page. Peace.
