Ulrike Keding is an experienced couch surfer. Couchsurfing means “staying at a friend’s house”. Nowhere is the diversity of US society and its multi-ethnic groups better represented than on the Couchsurfing platform. The author introduces us to the dreams of her most interesting couchsurfing friends in the USA. They accompanied her for part of her journey along the east coast: in New York, Washington DC and Miami Beach. Professional musician Gerald Farnham once dreamed of Broadway. However, his life was different. He has been playing his historic Renaissance lute in Central Park for 50 years. Ulrike Keding hits the bars of Washington DC with Afro-American entrepreneur Vincent Dixon. The descendant of Caribbean emigrants has had a remarkable career. After starting out on Wall Street as an investment banker, he now has a 400-employee firm and is a consultant to the Department of Defense. Dixon made the American dream come true. In Miami Beach, Ulrike Keding observes a graffiti painter at work on a wall on the Atlantic beach. The son of Andy Warhol’s art dealer Ricky Limbrizzi, Nemo Librizzi grew up in a prominent artistic world in New York. But his dream still applies to forbidden and illegal graffiti art. The painter sprayed graffiti in dark tunnels and on subways. He has also accepted one or two arrests for this. Limbrizzi is part of the Subway Graffiti movement. A Couchsurfing overnight stay is not a guarantee certificate. But one thing is certain for the globetrotters: exciting encounters with original individualists off the usual tourist paths.
2023-05-26 18:09:55
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