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Suz

Age:

Gender:

Female

Travel status:

Traveling now

Hometown:

Durham, CT, USA

Currently in:

Rome

Traveling Next:

Argentina?

Favorite places I've been:

Testaccio in Rome, il ponte Santa Trinita in Florence, Connecticut shore, Calabria, Montana, Salt Cay (Turks and Caicos), Alaska, Copenhagen, Santa Fe (NM)

Places I want to go to:

Argentina, Istanbul, Japan, India, Urbino, Sevilla, the Black Forest in Germany, Home

About me:

Anyone who knows me would probably sum me up in three words: open, interested, aware. Or diastro americano, as my Italian cousins say.

Profile URL:

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

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I'm fired up on:

Mojitos, homemade honey from the Ukraine, music, constantly trying to understand equal beauties and deficiencies in different cultures

Tunes I rock out to:

Johnny Cash, Mark Knophler, Elisa, Radiohead, Band of Horses, Cesaria Evora, Pink Floyd, Inti-Illimani, Jeff Buckley, Elliot Smith, anything Portuguese, tunes always playing in Doner Kebab

Travel style:

I just try really really hard not to lose my wallet and digital camera. I'm not entirely against maps, but tend to never replace them and the ones I use are illegible.

Quote:

"The more you know about yourself, the less you let things upset you." Bill Murray's character in "Lost in Translation"

Sports I do:

Run, fish when I can, frisbee, soccer

Favorite artist(s):

Rene Magritte, Mark Rothko

Favorite books:

A River Runs Through It

Who I'd like to meet on my travels:

you...maybe...and Spanish men. Yes.

I want to make a difference by:

a smile.

Languages spoken, other than English:

Italian

I felt the most immersed in a foreign culture when:

While riding on the back of a friend's motorino from a beach outside of Rome, we randomly passed one of my students and his girlfriend in his yellow convertible. We pulled over and chatted on the side of the highway. I felt cool but upon saying goodbye with the standard kisses on both cheeks, I forgot to take off my helmet. Nerd.

Why I travel:

New places have different smells. I like that.

Ideal place to watch the sunrise:

still probably inebriated so anywhere is great

Ideal place to watch the sunset:

Salt Cay from the canon

Before I die I'd like to:

Swim with sharks. Or with dolphins, and then not die.

My links:

http://www.myspace.com/suz111382
http://community.webshots.com/user/sulbrich
http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/86691

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by Stu | 2007/05/27

Totally agree with your "before I die I'd like to" answer.

Although, swimming with sharks or dolphins is pretty much one in the same, as tmagner astutely pointed out to me once: "dolphins are just gay sharks"..

by Tim Patterson | 2007/03/22

That's the Ishiguro book, right? I read it on the night train to Bangkok last month and it devastated me.

Glad to see you on here and can't wait to hang out again soon.

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Where it all began

By Suz | Location: Italy | 05/17/07 | Pics: 1

I’ve often said that in Italy everything is a Big deal, and at the same time, nothing matters.

Roma won today. Big. Not just any one of the hundreds of soccer games played in Italy year-round, but they won Big. From my apartment in Testaccio, the old zone in the southwest of the city, the Roma...

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Bloody Boars and Fava Beans

By Suz | Location: Italy | 05/06/07 | Pics: 1

The first weekend I moved to Rome I moved in with my Calabrese cousins. The first afternoon in Rome I stood in a puddle of boars' blood with the beasts' nemesis, Mauro, and had my picture taken.

Mauro, il Cacciatore as my cousins refer to him, is just that. He is their neighbor and a hunter, a...

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