| Public Profile |
| Name: | Mani Potnuru |  |
| Street: | |
| City: | Seattle |
| Region/State: | Washington |
| Postal Code (ZIP): | 98103 |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Homepage: | http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/users/mani | |
| Date of Birth: | 14.9.1980 | Gender: | Male |
| Occupation: | Engineer/Program-Manager |
| Travels and interests |
| Languages spoken: | English, Some Spanish, Couple of Indian languages |
| Hobbies, Interests: | programming, philosophy, law, hiking, biking, backpacking, economics, geography, history, Science&Technology, traveling, politics. |
| Organizations I am a member of: | Seattle Youth Tutoring Program (http://www.ytpseattle.org/), Seattle Community For Youth,Couch Surfing |
| Travel experience: | USA, Canada, Germany, Austria, India, Israel, West bank, Egypt, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Mexico |
| Planned trips, where & when (you can also post your plans in the Forum): | Hope to make it to Colombia, Bolivia in near future. |
| Anything else about myself: | I live in an apartment in the best neighborhood (self-proclaimed :) of Seattle ,Fremont. They claim it is the "center of the world" :) |
| Help and advice |
| I can offer: | Accommodation:no, please don't ask | show around town - other:travel in and around |
| Best times for me to help someone: | Just ask me. |
| Nearby public transport: | Bus #194 (or #174) can bring you from Sea-tac airport to Downtown for $1.50 in half-an-hour.
http://transit.metrokc.gov/ is an useful site to lookup bus schedules and routes.
Bus# 26,28,5 (from downtown) can bring you to Fremont. My apartment at Fremont Ave & 41st Street |
| Nearby bigger cities, distance: | Vancouver (~150mi), Portland (~180mi) Seattle is a gateway to Alaska. |
| Interesting things to see and do where I live, my tips (please also add this to the | Seattle is a paradise for Nature/outdoor lovers. Tons of opportunities for skiing, biking, hiking, backpacking,mountaineering. US-101 loop is a great place for motorcyclists. And Seattle is a musically very active city. |
| Accommodation |
| I live with: | other people |
| Sleeping place I can offer: | space on the floor - mattress - sofa - bed |
| Please bring: | |
| Maximum number of guests: | 2 | Maximum length of stay: | we can discuss |
| Notification - visitors: | should notify 1week days in advance, must notify 1 week days in advance, can call on arrival and are asked to call between and . |
| Gender of guest: | doesn't matter | Smoking: | outside only |
| Requirements and Restrictions: | |
| Pets: | |
| Profile Summary: | [Unfortunately, my living situation has changed and am pretty busy with work. I won't be able to help much until end of Summer] I love to meet people from different countries, learning the history/geography/politics/culture . If you are in Seattle area I will be more than happy to host/meetup/show around. |
