CURRENT MISSION

Europe!

ABOUT ME

I am very creative. I can easily figure out how things work, and how things are made. With enough time and the right tools and materials, I can make or fix almost anything.

I am happy the whole time, no matter what I am doing. I like going dancing and staying out late, I also like going to bed early after cooking and reading. I am happy doing touristy things, but I am also happy going to a city and spending every day in a different park. I never need entertaining, because I can always find something to do, though it is fun to be entertained as well! I am a pretty easy going, amicable, amiable person.

PHILOSOPHY

Pay it forward

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am in the process of surfing around Europe! When I return, I will open up my couch!

Interests

bicycles, outside, yoga, ice cream, art, making things, sunshine, cooking, friends, traveling, sewing, dancing, listening to music, playing card games, hiking through the woods, swimming in fresh water, storms, flowers, baking, reading, movies, writing, potlucks, small parties, big parties, sunsets, sleeping, being awake, sitting by the river, naps in the park, bugs, bones, traveling.

• arts
• writing
• dancing
• cooking
• baking
• yoga
• partying
• flowers
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• hiking
• surfing
• swimming
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

I don't really pick favorites because there is too much good to pick one thing out of an infinite number of possibilities. I like a lot of things from all different cultures and time periods.. Its hard to just pick a few.

Movies.. Oh my, there are so many movies.. Most of them are horrible, but there are so many really good ones. I like all different genres of movies. I worked for about a year at the best video rental store I have ever seen, with movies from a lot of different cultures, and almost every genre imaginable. I can list some movies that I like, but there is no way I can pick favorites. There are way too many. Revanche, Hudsucker Proxy, Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones (not the most recent one), Deadringers, The Fly, Bad Education, A Secret in Their Eyes, Old Boy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, City Of God, City of Lost Children, Dead Snow, Smilla's Sense of Snow, Poltergeist, Man On Wire, Dogtooth, Gummo, Blue Valentine, Biutiful... there are sooo many more. I like movies.

I also listen to a very eclectic selection of music. There are good in bad in every genre. The problem with me is matching names of things that I hear to the people that make the sounds. I am getting better at it as time goes on, but it is definitely not one of my strong suits, and it would be difficult to just list a sting of names here. I just know if I like it when I hear it, and I listen to different kinds of music doing different things

So the past couple of years, I have been reading memoirs, ethnographies and American classics. It takes longer to read things, so Its easier to pick books I like...
-Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, it's a life changing book that shows you how to look at today's world in a different way. It is also about saving the world, because there are a lot of problems in the world today, but it is not a doom and gloom book.
-Shattered Dreams by Irene Spencer, her life as a plural wife in a Morman Polygamist community.
-The Forrest People by Collin Turnbull. It's about the Pigmy tribe, aka BamButi, who live in the Congo Rainforrest, and their lifestyle and customs, as of twenty or thirty years ago. A lot of war, deforrestation, and overpopulation has changed their lives significantly.
-A Million Little Pieces by James Frey, Its about his six weeks in drug rehab after being an alcoholic and heavy drug user for his entire life.
So many more..Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See, My Friend Leonard by James Frey, Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Nine Chains to the Moon by Buckminster Fuller. There are still so many more.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I saw a nun riding a bicycle across a highway in Rome. I saw a Wolverine for the first time at a Zoo in Salzburg. I touched the Mediterranean Sea, and watched the sun set over it. I've climbed some small mountains, or big hills. I am enjoying life!

Teach, Learn, Share

sewing, yoga, welding, cooking, fixing bicycles, using seventeenth century wood working hand tools, braiding hair, drawing in three point perspective, rolling a cigarette, tying a really good bow...pretty much, anything I know how to do, if it comes up when I am with you, and I can help, I will!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States