CURRENT MISSION

going places, meeting people

ABOUT ME

music. home cooking. coalriverwind.org

PHILOSOPHY

create positive change, and assume that others just might be trying to do the same.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

still new at it!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I had a really great experience using this in the southeast of Turkey, where I met a family who hosted me incredibly well. I've also surfed many couches before joining, because I travel a lot doing social/environmental justice work. I've found that anyone willing to take people in and share their knowledge about a place is generally good people!
I do prefer people who talk a good deal, but quiet ones are of course welcome!

Interests

Music (playing it, listening to it, going to shows), cooking and baking, turning old clothes into useful things, walking barefoot through cold mud, being helpful while encouraging personal autonomy, good coffee...

• cooking
• coffee
• baking
• walking
• clothing
• traveling
• socializing
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: cozy films like Little Women and Beatrix Potter, funny films like Funny Farm and What about Bob, favorite: As Good as it Gets.
Books: The Pilgrim's Progress, Dress your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Birds without Wings, Tolkien and C.S. Lewis books
Music: Old-time Appalachian mountain music, Gillian Welch, Turkish folk music (Yeni Turku is great), girltalk, Billie Holiday

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

a corporate businessman smile in the middle of the day--after two weeks of nothing but frowns and gruff!

Teach, Learn, Share

It takes 30-50 gallons of sap from a maple tree to make one gallon of DELICIOUS maple syrup.
One gallon of syrup weighs 11 pounds.
It takes only one gallon of syrup to make 8 pounds of maple candy.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ireland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, Turkey, United States