Couchsurfing has been a wonderful way to travel in my life. I live in a yurt in a redwood forest in California, visit the ocean regularly when I’m home

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Subverting the money system through human kindness.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I meet incredible people on here, both as a host and a guest.

I feel it gives warmth and character to a place and feels more relational than impersonal and capitalistic

Interests

Connecting deeply with nature, mushroom hunting, herbalism, hot springs, meditation, writing, poetry, experimental fiction, cooking, moving, new ways of seeing, yoga, creating our own art/music

• arts
• cooking
• yoga
• meditation
• music
• mountains
• biketouring

Music, Movies, and Books

I currently love Call Me By Your Name by Luca Guadanino, Death in Venice by Luchino Visconti. I Heart Huckabees and Darjeeling Limited make me laugh!

Invisible Cities is my favorite by Italo Calvino. I feel like I am understanding him better after traveling through Italy :)

I also love Hesse, Rilke, Richard Brautigan, so much poetry

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Winter caretaker at Goldmyer Hotsprings with my partner: six months living "off the grid" miles and miles away from any road with 700-year-old trees in a one room cedar cabin with a woodstove. Living near water so pure I could kneel down on my hands and knees and drink directly from the creek. There's nothing like a hillside covered in snowy evergreen trees, using water to give light.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach meditation (I used to live at a zen monastery) and wilderness and ancestral skills. I love learning and sharing the cultural, culinary and medicinal uses of plants

I also love animals and am very happy to take your dog for a walk 😍

What I Can Share with Hosts

Meditation, a poem, joy, pet care

I’m a pretty good cook too :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Croatia, France, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Slovenia, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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