1000 Americans: Harry ‘Captain Bueno’ Barton, Newport Beach

Harry used to host a radio show in LA in the 70s, being ‘Captain Bueno’. Coming from very humble beginnings, learning at 12 schools in 12 years, he worked his way up to the highest corporate executive positions and financial levels and has friends of all kinds.

Now he is back where his roots are, enjoying the simple life on the beach.

1000 Americans: Shamu Dhungana, Lomita, USA

Shamu Dhungana was born in Nepal, but moved to the US later and is now helping Nepalese immigrants with the many legal papers.

(His son is currently also cycling from Alaska to Argentina, see http://www.transformundo.com )

1000 Americans: random American In Las Vegas

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“So you travel a lot. Do you know any places where an American can safely travel? Everywhere? How about Argentina?

‘What camera do you have there? Can it take photos in low-light conditions like these? Take a photo of me, you can call it ‘ a Random American in Las Vegas’…

1000 Americans: Steven del Favero, Death Valley

Steven works as a biologist for the National Parks service, investigating invasive plant species in Death Valley. He works long days and on his days off he usually stays inside that park and goes hiking or camping in the far, lesser known corners of the huge spark.

“Once you get off the main road, the camping possibilities are endless and you never see any other persons”. I have worked here for 4 months know and still feel that I only know a tiny bit of what the Death Valley Park has to offer…

1000 Americans: Michael Fuselier, Las Vegas

Michael works in a bar in the Downtown area of Las Vegas, so his ‘daily’ schedule is more nightly… Once his kids graduate, he is planning to travel and hit the road again…

He is also is the CouchSurfing city ambassador for Las Vegas and he knows a lot about the city. Even though he ad his father visiting, he still hosted and we had a great time with both of them, even convincing his father Tony that Couchsurfers can be fun and interesting people 😉

1000 Americans: Diego Sarraseca, Los Angeles

 

Argentinean-born Diego lives in an old gang house in South-East LA with his wonderful wife Claudia and two kids. when they moved in, they had to remove tons of trash and plaster some bullet holes.

Diego is trying to make a difference in the community by being actively involved in the local youth’s soccer competition. He is fighting against local government, so they can keep on using the fields for the soccer games and the kids keep shooting at the goal instead of shooting at each other…

If you want to know what else goes on in his head, read his blog: http://www.thesarrasecacode.com/

1000 Americans: Kevin Flores, the local LA soccer champion

This little boy, Kevin Flores, is an awesome player on the Ross Snyder PeeWees team In LA. He took posing very serious. He was probably already used to it as according to the coaches he is a huge talent on the local soccer-fields in South-East Los Angeles…

1000 Americans: Frank Santana, Santa Barbara

Frank is the General manager of the Inn at East Beach in Santa Barbara. With his Hawaiian style shirts and relaxed Californian style hospitality, he wins everybody over.

Oh, and he has a great collection of muffins in the morning, thanks Frank 😉

1000 Americans: Matt & Rita, San Luis Obispo

Matt & Rita are avid cycle tourists, having toured by bicycle in Italy, The Netherlands, Germany, Canada, Australia and the US. They actively promote cycling and are members of the San Luis Obispo Bicycle Club and the San Luis Obispo County Bicycle Coalition.

Matt & Rita were perfect hosts. Even though we arrived last minute, they put us up and cooked a great meal to top it. Ivana tested out their tandem-recumbent and it was fun to talk about all our trips together.

The next day they cycled out with us, which was great as they were showing us much better routes and a great fish-tacos bar 🙂

Thanks Matt & Rita!

1000 Americans: Bill Korn, Santa Maria

Bill is a great guy. He cooked us a wonderful meal (made Ivana feel at home immediately).
His wife and kids are very friendly though one of the Dachshunds is a bit psychotic, the other makes up for it 🙂

He cycles a lot, first out of necessity (as he did not have a car), then out of pleasure (because it is so great).

He helped us with our bikes and cycled a few hours with us, showing us a much better route through the Foxen canyon Road, which we would have missed otherwise.
Thanks Bill, hope to see you on our trip again, else in Argentina or Amsterdam!

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