CURRENT MISSION

"dreaming in the immensity... of all that road going"- J. Kerouac

ABOUT ME

I am a gregarious and fun mid-20s woman. I value good conversation and intellectualism above almost all else. That, and a good gin and tonic. All in moderation, of course.

I enjoy writing. I also enjoy learning anything and everything that I can, being outside in the grass, exploring, photography and just generally living life. I am a semi-seasoned tour guide, trained birth doula and a retired line cook.

I was born in Florida (unfortunately, no offense) and have lived in Mississippi, Texas, Virginia, Arizona, Louisiana, North Carolina and Alaska.

PHILOSOPHY

Life is short, valuable and should not ever be static. We will never be immortal unless we connect with our world.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am always happy to show travelers around whatever town I'm currently living in. Right now, I'm living in Anchorage, AK during the summers and working as a tour guide, so I'm very knowledgeable about Alaska.

This fall and winter (2015-16) I will be solo-tripping through Europe briefly and then hopefully settling down for a few months in Chicago. I'm hoping to finally do some hosting this winter.

If you allow me to privilege to sleep in your abode, I will gladly cook anything you'd like. I'm also great at garden work (weeding, etc.), organizing, helping with kids. I will also share any of the snatches of information I keep buried away in my brain.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've surfed with a couple of great folks and I've made a lot of friends in my journeys who are also surfers.

I can't wait to dive further into to the CS community this winter

Interests

Reading
Traveling
Music and Dancing
Yoga
Vegetarianism
Philosophy
Photography
Spontaneous Adventures
Hiking
Cooking
Poetry

• writing
• poetry
• photography
• dancing
• cooking
• vegetarian
• yoga
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• ecology
• history
• languages
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: On the Road, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Illusions, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Jitterbug Perfume (and all Tom Robbins), The Tao of Pooh, Cats Cradle, Slaughterhouse 5, Fahrenheit 451, The Harry Potter Series, Brave New World, Where the Wild Things Are, Stranger in a Strange Land, Blindness

Movies: The Coen Brothers, Anything Wes Anderson, The Breakfast Club, Away We Go, What Dreams May Come, V for Vendetta, Imagine Me and You, Midnight in Paris (and other assorted Woody Allen), Samsara, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Music: I listen to bad music. But interspersed in there is some Neutral Milk Hotel, jazz (from Louis Armstrong to Glen David Andrews), folk (Matt Costa, The Decemberists) and of course, Neil Diamond.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Realized that I needed to start living my life for me, and since then my whole life has been one fantastically amazing thing

Teach, Learn, Share

Vegetarian Cooking (But I will totally cook you meat if you want)
A Smattering of Languages
Everything you never wanted to know about Childbirth and Diabetes
My experiences in various places
I can recite for you more than 10 poems and 2 Shakespearean speeches of varying lengths (ranging from "The Raven" to "If You Should Go" to the To Be or Not To Be speech)
Alaskan history and ecology

What I Can Share with Hosts

Everything I just wrote above

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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