CURRENT MISSION

"We are here on Earth to fart around..don't let anybody tell you different."

ABOUT ME

My name is Ally, I'm a pretty open and easy going person. I tend to find the fun in everything, and I'm very good at making a damned fool out of myself. I'm a quixotic person by nature and have a ridiculous sense of humor. I'm originally from Reno, NV, but after bouncing around I ended up in the midwest and stayed to play roller derby for a nationally competitive league..my name was Frenchie BlownAparte. These days I'm more likely to be on an airplane than rollerskates, as much as I miss derby my main focus has become travel. I moved to the bay area a couple years ago and work as a flight attendant based out of Oakland. When I'm not being paid to travel I spend a majority of my time planning the next trip abroad or hopping a plane or two around the country to visit friends. I read a lot, go to an increasing amount of motown dance parties on the regular, am an avid collector of vinyl records, love sailing and the prospect of living on a boat forever, enjoy thrifting old dresses or unique furniture, and repurposing them into something new. I'll find any reason to dance (badly, on purpose), and I WILL make you dance with me. I love to paint, but somehow never make the time to do it. I also love urban exploration, bicycle riding, hiking, and doing as much as I can outdoors. I tend to fly by the seat of my pants.. sometimes literally, mostly figuratively..and always keep a backpack ready to catch the next plane to anywhere. Figuring it out as you go is half the adventure!

PHILOSOPHY

"Find life experiences and swallow them whole. Travel, meet many people. Go down some dead ends and explore dark alleys. Try everything. Exhaust yourself in the glorious pursuit of life."
-Lawrence K. Fish

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I can honestly say I have met some of my favorite, most cherished people through the couchsurfing community. Friends that I still randomly fly to visit over and over and over again, friends that I will answer phone calls from at 4 in the morning just to chat and laugh at life, friends who agree to dress up in ridiculous costumes with me for a night out in their town, friends that hosted me who I then opened my door to just weeks later, friends that I've played nation-wide games of tag with in the most random cities across the country, and new friends that I look forward to knowing as I come up to their doorsteps.

Interests

Outerspace, grilled cheese, roller derby, cave exploring, star gazing, tea parties, champagne parties, italo-disco parties, puppy parties, crashing yacht club parties, the Large Hadron Collider, outerspace again, crafting/sewing, sailing, collecting vinyl, bad jokes, profanity in american sign language, obscure sightseeing, whimsical misadventure, general tomfoolery

• fish
• dancing
• cheese
• partying
• clubbing
• flying
• yachting
• boating
• thrifting
• traveling
• painting
• outdoor activities
• fishing
• hiking
• backpacking
• sailing
• sign language
• sightseeing
• urban exploration

Music, Movies, and Books

Mikal Cronin, Bass Drum of Death, Warm Soda, Sic Alps, Allah-Las, Gringo Star, Kids on a Crime Spree, FIDLAR, Gold Panda, Star Slinger, TEEEL, Girls, Com Truise, Wild Nothing, Gal Costa, Bill Withers, The Drums, Mac DeMarco, Youth Lagoon, Grimes, Disclosure, Teen Daze, Toro Y Moi, Caribou, The Strokes, The Animals, Wolf Parade, Sufjan Stevens, Louis Armstrong, The Whitest Boy Alive, Big Black Delta, New Order, Lescop, Juveniles, LCD Soundsystem, Foxygen, Beach Fossils, The Smiths, Cat Power, Justice, La Femme, Porcelain Raft, Beirut, Taken By Trees, Peter Bjorn and John, Cut Copy, Hot Chip, The Books, Tanlines, Ella Fitzgerald, Fever Ray, The Knife, Tom Waits, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, The Dodos, Andrew Bird, Astrud Gilberto, Walter Wanderley, Matthew Dear, The Cramps, St. Vincent, Tallest Man On Earth, Destroyer, Yelle, Jens Lekman, Billie Holiday, Feist, Mamas & Papas, Postiljonen, Booker T and the MG's, Kings of Convenience, Ray Lamontagne, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Nicolas Jaar, DARKSIDE, Chromatics..etc etc etc

"Right now you're thinking... who is this girl, and what's wrong with her? She must be crazy. No, sad... sad in a chair with... cats. Cats? No, a cross word puzzle. A puzzle and tea. No, beer. Beer, she's tough? Thinks she's tough, but not like that. Picture her... younger. No, older. Picture someone with fake teeth. You never really know."
-The Go-Getter

Every single thing directed by Michel Gondry/Lars von Trier

Adventure Club.

"It's all been so beastly lovely, this mad river,
this gouging, plundering madness
that I would wish upon nobody but myself.
Amen."
-Charles Bukowski

Pale Blue Dot
-Carl Sagan

“Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit…what a ride!”
-Hunter S. Thompson

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I saw the Queen of England in person once, on her birthday! I've backpacked through Desolation Wilderness in Lake Tahoe, ziplined upside down through the Jamaican jungle, taken a much needed nap at the top of the Sears Tower in Chicago, and was once challenged to a motown dance off by a zombie dressed in tasseled cowboy boots in Kansas City.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belize, Cayman Islands, France, Germany, Guatemala, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Monaco, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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