CURRENT MISSION

To explore the world's playground :)

ABOUT ME

I am of French and American origin from Boston. I am currently moving from Portland, Oregon back to the East coast. I am a Classical Chinese Medicine Doctor specializing in women’s medicine, acupuncture, and Chinese herbs. In my free time, I love to travel, try new cuisines & dance my way around dance floors :)

PHILOSOPHY

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it solely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one corner of the earth all ones lifetime." -Mark Twain

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING:

At the moment, I am interested in finding fellow Couchsurfers and experiencing their culture. I am traveling for the next month so I cannot accept guests but I am always open to meet up for a chat or extend my knowledge :D

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE:

I have experienced Couchsurfing many times now (Macau, Mexico, Granada, Sevilla, Madrid, Amsterdam, Brazil, Chicago, Atlanta etc) all were amazing experiences and influenced me to join the Couchsurfing community!

Interests

Traveling and exploring, adventuring, nature, global gastronomy, scuba diving, live music, yoga, interacting with different cultures, Brazilian jiujitsu, learning.

• culture
• dining
• fine dining
• yoga
• traveling
• music
• live music
• scuba diving
• skiing
• snowboarding
• business

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Interstellar, Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Pans Labyrinth, The Matrix, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Amélie, Spirited Away, Avatar, Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club, The Fifth Element, to name a few......

Books: Be Here Now, Shang Han Lun, Neijing, Yijing, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, The Alchemist, 3 Cups of Tea, The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in the Rye, Pride and Prejudice.....

Music: I have an eclectic taste and enjoy almost everything

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Too many to say!!

~Skiing and learning how to snowboard in the Swiss Alps
~Visiting India at the age of 15
~Scuba Diving the oceans
~Working with international refugees
~Hot Air Ballooning over Cappadocia
~Witnessing a solar eclipse

Teach, Learn, Share

A buddhist monk in Cambodia once told me:
To live is to learn; to learn is to live; so that we learn how to live.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I believe that you can learn something from everybody.
I hope to share my travel experiences with others and continue to influence others to travel.

Sonder (n) : the realization that each passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own- populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness- an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you'll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Bahamas, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, England, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Peru, Portugal, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Vatican City State, Viet Nam, Virgin Islands, British

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France, Spain, Switzerland, United States