CURRENT MISSION

See the world.

ABOUT ME

My bucket list: (in no particular order)
-own property in a foreign country
-see the northern lights within the arctic circle
-go swimming with sharks (in a shark cage of course)
-adopt an orphan
-take a cruise down the Nile River and see the pyramids
-have a drink at the Ice Hotel in Sweden
-see the fjords in Norway
-road trip across the United States
-camp in the Outback
-climb to the top of a Mayan temple
-create a real piece of art, something to be proud of
-rescue an animal in need
-make some great family home videos
-go to a wedding in a foreign country
-get married on a beach with the sand between my toes
-experience Chinese New Year in China
-live on as many continents as I can
-climb to the top of Uluru
-meditate in a Himalayan monastery in Tibet
-travel on the trans-Siberian railway
-see New Zealand top to bottom
-stand in Red Square in Moscow
-walk among penguins in Antarctica
-snorkel in the Great Barrier Reef
-stand on top of the Great Wall
-cruise the Black Sea
-take a quad ride in the Namibian dunes
-take a bath in a hot spring in Iceland
-stay in a bungalow on stilts in the South Pacific
-make a pilgrimage to Mecca and Jerusalem
-visit a Japanese pagoda during the height of cherry blossom season
-study Chinese medicine in the Middle Kingdom
-float in the Dead Sea
-ride in a classic car in Havana
-feed a baby kangaroo
-visit the Taj Mahal
-straddle the equator
-save a life
-explore Angkor Wat temple

Some I can check off:
-see a ballet performed in Russia
-watch the end of the Tour de France on the Champs-Élysées
-ride a camel in the Sahara desert
-see Carnival in Venice
-watch an opera in Italy
-walk the beaches of Normandy
-eat raclette in the Alps with a Swiss family
-visit Auschwitz
-climb Mt. Vesuvius and see Pompeii
-stand at the base of the Matterhorn
-eat the best fish and chips in England (Whitby)
-drive really fast on the autobahn
-stand on the top of the rock of Gibraltar and feed the monkeys
-shop at a bazaar in Marrakesh
-ride a moped in Italy

I am moving to Shanghai in July!

Interests

• animals
• fish
• arts
• chinese new year
• ballet dancing
• meditation
• drinking
• shopping
• traveling
• opera
• fishing
• camping
• snorkeling
• swimming
• tour de france
• medicine
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:

Frank Sinatra, Madeleine Peyroux, Yellowcard, Tim McGraw, Dashboard Confessional, Dixie Chicks, John Mayer, Norah Jones, Switchfoot, Rascal Flatts, The Beatles, The Fray, Matt Wertz, James Taylor, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Blink 182, Graham Colton Band, Ben Taylor, Eva Cassidy

TV Shows:

LOST, Dawson's Creek, I Love Lucy, Friends, Grey's Anatomy, Alias, The Daily Show, A Baby Story, BBC's Planet Earth, Man vs. Wild, Jeopardy, Samantha Brown: Passport to Europe/Latin America

Movies:

Legends of the Fall, The Constant Gardener, Walk The Line, The Notebook, The Thomas Crown Affair, Thank You For Smoking, Saved, Best in Show, Shakespeare in Love, Before Sunset, A Walk to Remember, Sliding Doors, 10 Things I Hate About You, Gone With the Wind, A Good Woman, The Illusionist, Casino Royale, The Painted Veil, Almost Famous, Meet Joe Black, Atonement

Books:

The Perks of Being A Wallflower, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, In the Lake of the Woods, The Alchemist, Gone With the Wind, The Red Tent, The Notebook, Catcher in the Rye, The Power of Now, Peace is Every Step, Siddhartha, The Birth of Venus, Letters to a Young Poet, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Other Boleyn Girl, Lonely Planet Guide for (insert any destination country here), anything by Bill Bryson, You Don't Need Meat, Eating: What we eat and why it matters, The God Delusion, Middlesex, The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, The China Study, Atonement, Into the Wild, Eat Pray Love, Vagabonding, A Year in the World

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Grenada, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Virgin Islands, British

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Italy, United States