Hi! I am Courtney, currently co-hosting this site and a house with my partner Kevin.

Signing off of CS for awhile because I haven't had any luck getting responses from active hosts. I think the site may be showing all CS profiles including those who don't pay the fee.

If you are seeing my profile as an active host it is untrue; I will amend this section when I start paying the fee again to rejoin.

If you want to reach me you can try sending a message and put your email or WhatsApp in the message. Please give a little description of yourself because I won't be able to look at your profile 😉

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Formerly hosted many awesome people while living in Albania, Sri Lanka, and again now in California . In my own travels, CS hosts have made all the difference in experiencing and understanding local cultures for me. Traveling vs vacationing.

I love the CS philosophy of offering and receiving hospitality as a way to understand more about each other, and in general breaking down stereotypes and racism.

Interests

I'm interested in food systems and agriculture, especially postharvest systems and feeding more people with fewer resources. Food security has such a big impact on peace and security in across the globe, as well as culture, environment, ecology, social systems, etc.

Amazing to me that 1) there can be so much gluttonous excess in places and absolute lacking of basic needs in others, and 2) humans let such valuable things such as water, nutrients, and life-giving foods go to waste.

Photography, bookbinding, printmaking, paper arts....

Botany, plant species, vermiculture, soil microbes, paleo-botany...

We are also interested to try drinks from around the world, so if your country or hometown brews/distills something unique we would be excited to taste it :)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Bicycled around the Mediterranean for 6 months (Albania-->Egypt)

Ran the original Marathon (from Marathon--->Athens)

[[Kevin]] Skydiving on the north shore of Oahu!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to take better photographs, Kevin can school you in drumming rhythms

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Angola, Austria, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, India, Ireland, Jordan, Kenya, Kosovo, Laos, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Palestine, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Senegal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Albania, Germany, South Korea, Sri Lanka, United States

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