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NicholasGill

Age:

Gender:

Male

If you must know:

I'm happily married

Travel status:

Putting down roots

Hometown:

Columbus, Ohio

Currently in:

Brooklyn, New York

Expert Peru

I've lived in Peru on and off the past few years and was recently married to a Peruvian gal. I've traveled every region of the country and written for numerous publications on the county including my guidebook (Peru Adventure Guide, 2007: http://www.amazon.com/Adventure-Guide-Peru-Guides/dp/1588435938)

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Favorite places I've been:

India, Colombia, Morocco, Peru, Alaska, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Panama...

Places I want to go to:

Everywhere else.

About me:

I spent the last 5 or so years traveling, now I'm settling down, somewhat, with my beautiful Peruvian wife, Claudia in NYC.

Profile URL:

http://matadortravel.com/travel-community/nicholasgill

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I'm fired up on:

Peruvian food, Writing, Reading, Traveling, Hockey, Kayaking, Snow boarding, Music, Wine, Mojitos, Hot Sauce, Ethnic Foods, sleeping.

Tunes I rock out to:

Bob Dylan, Taj Mahal, Soloman Burke, Antony and the Johnsons, Bob Marley, Talking Heads, Public Enemy, Toots and Maytals, Jack Johnson, John Coltrane, Warren Zevon, Dr. Dre

Travel style:

Cheap or luxurious.

Quote:

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the value of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.
-Jean-Paul Sartre

Sports I do:

Snowboarding, mountain biking, hockey, kayaking, futbol

Favorite books:

Borges Collected Fictions & Non-fictions, Life of Pi, The Glass Bead Game, Siddhartha, On the Road, The Dharma Bums, The Snow Leopard, The Last Flower, The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Slaughterhouse-FiveThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Languages spoken, other than English:

Spanish, Italian, some French

I felt the most immersed in a foreign culture when:

I traveled down a riverboat in the Amazon from Ecuador to Peru.

Let's collaborate:

I'm a travel and food writer/photographer/editor. Any ideas on working together drop me a line.

My links:

www.nicholas-gill.com, http://southamericatravel.suite101.com/.