1. What is your first name: Daniel
2. What city are you from: Bristol
3. What country are you from: England
4. What do you do: A nurse by trade but at the moment a traveling violinist.
5. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go and why: Antarctica because I love to travel, meet new people and it would be a major challenge.  I’d sail from the tip of Argentina to Antarctica and hope it would a great adventure.  Plus the fact that I have never been there before makes it all the better.
6. What’s your dream and why: I’m living my dream now!  I’ve been traveling the world for the last 4 months playing my violin on the street for money.  What could be better then that?

FOGG Notes: Every once in a while you run into someone that really inspires you…Dan is the optimum of that.  He wanted to travel for the first time and decided to take off, working for money on the streets playing his violin.  I asked him what he makes on a good day and what was the largest tip he ever has gotten while playing.  ”On a good day I can make almost $15 USD and the largest tip I ever gotten was from a guy who gave me $5 USD.  It was a great day that day!”

After hearing what he was doing I asked a few more questions, because this wasn’t your average street person run in.  He has been to over 13 countries in the last year, starting in Europe and the UK, then Central America and now South America.  He self taught himself Spanish (way better then I, thats for sure) and Lucy said it was actually quite good.  I asked him what was the scariest moment so far on his trip and he went on to tell me about him jumping on a old wooden sail boat from Europe to the America’s.  1/2 through the Atlantic the masks to one of the sails broke (would be like the motor blowing up on a yacht).  They were able to limp it into the Caribbean but it made for a long ride.  I thought maybe he would have said he got robbed in Panama or something but to my surprise he stated that he hasn’t had any problems on the streets at all.  He just goes out everyday, plays for a while for tips and enjoys the rest of his time seeing new things.  What a life huh!!!

Well I was so inspired by this guy and not wanting to be out tipped I gave him $6 for the interview and wished him good luck.  Dan if your back in Quito sometime shoot us a comment below and let us know.  We’d love to buy you dinner, a few beers and hear more of your travel stories.  Dan is going to Banos this week to try his luck up there.  If you see him playing be sure to give him a dollar…he plays some sweet tunes on that violin.  Dan can you play “Devil Went Down to George” at all???

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