CURRENT MISSION

To live life with love and peace in our souls and discover the natural wonders of this beautiful Earth

ABOUT ME

Kara and I are both teachers, naturalists, and world travelers from New Jersey, teaching ecology, conservation, and leadership to children, adolescents, and adults. We have three wild-learning children each gifted in their own way, learning the rhythms of the land around them, the world their primary classroom. After traveling the world pre-kids, we’re at it again with kids. We are currently in South America and heading to Southeast Asia in February, until November. We hope to volunteer with some amazing organizations, perhaps some orphanages, schools, farms, and research stations. We cannot wait to experience the culture and people who will leave lasting impressions in our souls...

PHILOSOPHY

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, Our presence automatically liberates others.
—Marianne Williamson

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We are currently traveling and surfing on couches for 12 months through S. America and Asia but look forward to hosting travelers when we move back to the States 2027!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We’ve couchsurfed before and frequently exchange our home other world travelers in the woods of NJ.

Interests

Hiking, Camping, Photography, Teaching kids about nature,Travelling, Playing guitar, Reading, Learning, Zen, Meeting GOOD People, Sitting around a campfire, Senegal, Adirondacks

• culture
• photography
• reading
• traveling
• guitar
• hiking
• camping
• surfing
• ecology
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Top 5 Movies: Goonies, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Adaptation, Life is Beautiful, Into the Wild

Top 5 Books: Walden, Ishmael, The Alchemist, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, Jitterbug Perfume, The Monkeywrench Gang, Three Cups of Tea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, A World Without Us, Deep Survival, Last of the Mohicans, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, A Man Without a Country, Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned, Into the Wild, Many Lives Many Masters....

OK so maybe Top 5 is really Top 16

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

We started our own summer forest camp and Dan published a book he wrote! To Bembou and Back: The Misadventure Memoirs of a Peace Corps Volunteer in West Africa.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Ireland, Peru, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Colombia, Senegal, United States