Greetings friends! We are Dionne, 33, and Collin, 24, a couple from Oregon taking a tour of the world and all the beautiful people in it. Which is why we got onto CS. We want to do more than follow a guide book. We want to interact, to learn about the area through the eyes and knowledge of the locals. Getting to know people from all places and perspectives is what we're looking for. We've been living on Kauai for the past 5 months doing a work trade on a 3 acre organic market farm but are leaving this Sunday, Feb. 19th, for a tour of Europe. We're headed to Frankfurt to visit a good friend of ours and then onward to Ireland and wherever the wind blows us afterwards. We looooove any kind of adventure, especially hiking or anything outdoors and we come from a rainy part of the US so we're not easily deterred. We want to see any and all kinds of museums, restaurants, art galleries, pubs, libraries, concerts, etc. that there are to see. We're both book and music nerds/freaks who love to laugh and discuss various nonsense and the universe. We're new to CS and neither of us have travelled abroad.....until now!!! If we sound like your kind of people we look forward to meeting you :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To make lifelong friends and see the world :) to cook and eat with strangers that feel like family! To get a drink and roam the streets. To laugh and be humbled.

Interests

• books
• beer
• gardening
• music
• backpacking
• laughing
• outdoors
• roaming

Music, Movies, and Books

Collin: Led Zeppelin, Forrest Gump, Tolkien, Tolkien and more Tolkien.

Dionne: Mac Demarco, Fleetwood Mac *or just Stevie Nicks- let's be honest. Books: any Vonnegut, blood bones and butter, Bill Bryson, travel.
Movies: Wes Anderson, Woody Allen

We love music to boogy and be romantic to. Movies that make you think...movies you can watch again and find something new. As for books- that's about the only thing we're not casual about. Together we've gotten through over 20 books in 4 months. That's time on the plane, train, and automobile for ya ;)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

We just cooked/had dinner with Bill Kreutzmann, drummer of the Grateful Dead. It was hard to act 'cool'. I think we pulled it off alright. That's the most recent anyway...

Teach, Learn, Share

Anything and everything! Dionne is strangely good at braiding hair. Collin can tell you everything you need to know about the Silmarillion. We can tell you our thoughts on the universe, on opening our minds to gain awareness and expanding our acceptance through travel and conversation.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Our experiences, knowledge, open ears, open minds and friendship. Breakfast. Lots of coffee. We do mornings right, in our opinion.