🛫🌏Global traveler and intrigued by international issues and cultures. 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇨🇺🇲🇽🇵🇷🇪🇨🇮🇳🇲🇾🇮🇩🇨🇳🇸🇬🇪🇸🇹🇭🇦🇪🇬🇷🇱🇰🇹🇼🇾🇪🇯🇵🇯🇲🇰🇾🇻🇳🇧🇧 “Travel isn’t always pretty... you go away... you learn... you get scarred…marked... changed in the process. It can even break your heart…” - Anthony Bourdain (R.I.P.) “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” - President John Fitzgerald Kennedy “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” - Earnest Hemingway “The orderly transfer of Power is a commonplace occurrence for Americans… In the eyes of many in the world, this every-4-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle…” - President Ronald Wilson Reagan 📚Top Reads: —————————————————— “The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy” - Christopher Leonard “The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East” By: Robert Fisk “The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power” By: Daniel Yergin —————————————————— ♟Chess Enthusiast♟ “Chess can never reach its height by following in the path of science ... Let us, therefore, make a new effort and with the help of our imagination turn the struggle of technique into a battle of ideas. “ -Jose Raul Capablanca “I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!” -Emanuel Lasker Author/Chess Grandmaster *** I DO NOT CONSENT TO BEING RECORDED *** Favorite places: -Japan - Cuba -Vietnam -Australia - Spain/Basque Country - Singapore/South East Asia - Bali/Indonesia - Sri Lanka - Greek Islands 🇨🇺🇺🇸 1st generation Cuban American 🎓Univ. of Calif. Santa Barbara alum ——————————————————