New to the slow travel lifestyle, trying to enjoy a month or more in each country I visit. 2022 has been an eye-opening year! Listing a bunch of things that were never on my traveling bingo card, but happened anyway (gotta take the good with the bad!):

-Dancing and sipping coconut liquor on the street in São Paulo during (belated) Carnaval ❤️❤️

- Hearing a huge music festival right from my bedroom window ❤️💔

- Fighting off the fireman who wanted to move me from my comfy sleeping spot at the club ❤️💔

- Getting denied boarding on an international flight at the last minute 💔💔

- Seeing the entire city of T'bilisi from a ferris wheel on top of a mountain ❤️❤️

- Having spicy adjika pepper ice cream with the crunchiest ever waffle cone ❤️❤️

- Climbing the 1000 steps of the Yerevan Cascade and seeing Mount Ararat in the distance ❤️❤️

- Getting robbed of my backup phone and a small amount of currency at my first ever hostel in Thailand 💔💔

- Getting claustrophobia crawling into the Viet Cong underground tunnel system in Cuu Chi 💔💔

- Failing to sleep from drinking too much Vietnamese coffee, and doing 2 days of work in one night ❤️❤️

- Trying (and failing) to learn how to ride a bike in the Mekong Delta 💔❤️

- Going dancing all night with people I just met (thanks, Hangouts!) ❤️❤️

- Watching two Couchsurfers from my Hangout group get into a relationship in real time ❤️❤️

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm on Couchsurfing to find people to hang out with, the more cultures the merrier!

Interests

Why is Carly Rae Jepsen not a more popular tag?

• cooking
• minimalism
• museums
• train travel
• intermittent fasting
• buses
• carly rae jepsen

Music, Movies, and Books

I live for electronic and/or 80s-inspired pop, dramatic torch songs, and recently discovered a budding taste for opera 🌹 Yma Sumac is the diva I never knew I needed in my life 💃

short and drifting attention span, but I will watch the heck out of a Wes Anderson or Yiorgos Lanthimos movie 🍿

I can't go into bookstores anymore from the deep despair at all the books I don't have time to read 😩 but secretly hoping to write a novel someday that can go on the same shelf as Susanna Clarke

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've done an island-to-island zipline! It was pretty relaxing, actually.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you to count to 31 on one hand!

What I Can Share with Hosts

I legitimately like to clean, please show me where your brooms and mops are stored. I can be as quiet or as talkative as needed. I'm not the best singer, but am always down for karaoke.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, Sri Lanka, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Armenia, Brazil, Georgia, Philippines, Thailand, Viet Nam