1000 Americans: Joe & Carol, Buellton

Joe & Carol are wonderful people and great hosts. Carol is an artists and has made countless paintings, including the one behind them.

They have cycled everywhere themselves and showed us Californian hospitality by welcoming us with a good glass of wine and a huge tasty dinner, giving us the chance to meet some of their friends, which was a pleasure as well.

Thanks for taking care of us, hopefully we will see you sometime during our trip south, else in Argentina or The Netherlands!

1000 Americans: Eric Meulman, musician

Eric had been travelling in 3 days from the East coast all the way to California, where he noticed the most beautiful landscapes he had seen in the US. He gave us a ride and sang a few songs for us while we prepared some pasta.

He is a great musician, see and hear more about him on http://www.ericmeulman.com/

1000 Americans: Victor Antonio, peacemaker

Victor, originally from Puerto Rico, though he grew up in San Antonia, Texas, has been on the road for a while, walking to promote peace through Marijuana.

This is how he describes his mission, taken from his website  http://HaveThisBook.com

I am a self employed long-distance walker/journalist.

With the Internet I have discovered a way to fight the world’s greatest problem. What would you say that is? Of all time. Where it all starts. Well, more like humanity’s greatest problem.   The world can shake us off.

I say it’s ignorance. Ignorance is the root of all problems, if you ask me. Nobody listens. We’re not learning. We are stuck. The technology is here, the facts have been staring us in the face for decades . . . but we still insist on killing the world and ourselves because death makes money.

Why doesn’t anybody care?

Well, here is my idea.

With the Internet(and you’re going to think I’m crazy, just like I want you to) I plan to eliminate money, make everything free, prove that it’s human-nature to be generous and bring world peace.

I’m going to get rid of cars in big cities and make everybody healthy(and height/weight proportionate).

AND, not only will I get marijuana totally legalized and chill everybody out…I will get it recommended.  It will be growing everywhere.

That’s the key.

I’ve got it all figured out.

I will tell you exactly how I plan to do all this . . . if you are willing to listen, and only then.  I wouldn’t want to waste your time.  I’ve got a website if you would rather read it.  There is a lot to be said for the presentation, though.

Click on ASK ME HOW, on the left column at the top on http://HaveThisBook.com (if you want to).

“There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton

1000 Americans: Rose, Diego & Ximena, Pacific Grove

Rose, Diego & Ximena are housemates in Pacific Grove, adjacent to Monterey, California. All are active environmentalists, preferring the bike over a car and helping clean the beautiful coast of Monterey bay.

Diego has cycled across Europe and Asia, see his website http://superpedaletos.blogspot.com/ & Ximena has just succeeded in getting styrofoam containers banned in Monterey. It is small initiatives like these that slowly make the world greener, from the bottom up…

1000 Americans: Deborah & Tom, Santa Cruz

Deb & Tom show that you can combine a very busy business life with an active life as they love to run and bike outside office hours. Their new dog Maisy will definitely help 🙂

1000 Americans: Don Austin, San Jose

Don is the leader of a large walking group. The interesting part is that all members of the group are retired or at least have the age to do so. But they do not sit ‘behind the Geraniums’ as we say in the Netherlands 🙂

Every week they carpool together to hike for several hours, visiting the many great places close to the Bay Area in California, we met them at the Ano Nuevo State Reserve, where we had a great time together.

(Note that the original image posted here was incorrect, Don sent the correct image above, thanks Don!)

1000 Americans: Kourtney & Brian, San Francisco

Kourtney & Brian (and the cuddly cat) work from their home office in the nice Fillmore area, renting out offices to companies worldwide. The time they save on commuting is spent on more work, but they also like to travel and see the world.

KP had contacted us through our the contact form and it was a pleasure to stay with them for a few days. They are a positive and generous couple and we enjoyed their first CouchSurfing with them 🙂

1000 Americans: Fiona & Jeremy, Kiva, San Francisco

Fiona is Kiva’s Public Relations Director, responsible for Kiva’s exposure & communication. She lives with Kiva’s Technology Director Jeremy and together they have sacrificed much time, money and effort to get Kiva up and running, being two of the first employees.

They both love to travel the world when possible and have seen the need for and success of microcredit with their own eyes.

Read more about Kiva and how you can support them, here on our blog.

1000 Americans: Jeremy Frazao & Matt Flannery, Kiva, San Francisco

Jeremy (Technology Director of Kiva) was one of the first people to work for Kiva after Matt  (CEO of Kiva) had started the company in 2005.

Of course they both did not know then that it would mean long hours with no pay, but due to dedication of the first key people like them, Kiva survived and is now one of the most praised companies in the US, facilitating microcredit lending to entrepreneurs in developing countries.

Read more about Kiva and how you can support them, here on our blog.

1000 Americans: Dr Hal Rosenberg, San Francisco

Dr Hal Rosenberg is a well-known Chiropractor in SF. having worked on the medical staff of the USA Triathlon Team.

It takes a sportsman to help one and though I sometimes felt he was trying to kill me, the crunching of the back and neck helped 🙂

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