We are a brother sister super team traveling the east coast and europe looking for open minded, creative people. We love organic local food and are great at cooking and doing dishes. We are tidy and polite but can also do karaoke with the best of them.

We love music, secret swimming holes, beautiful parks, dive bars, dance parties, literature, bicycles, cooking, eating, pets and animals of all sorts, spontaneous positive human interaction!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

We are on couchsurfing in the hopes of finding cool, hospitable people to show us around unfamiliar territories and hope to return the favor when we make our way back home to the San Francisco Bay Area!

Interests

Gracie: organic farming, permaculture, rock and roll, tarot, hiking, drawing, surreal literature and film, vinyl records, cooking, fermentation, food preservation, whole animal butchery, alternative education, electric guitar.

Bennett: riding bikes, playing music, fruits and veggies, fungi, hiking, reading books, making art, supporting local artists, getting lost, jewish humor, walking, being a clown, synthesizers, games, Magic: The Gathering, science, computers, and being a rock and roll dude.

Music, Movies, and Books

Gracie:
music: angel olsen, the nerves, nick lowe, kate bush, mac demarco, fats domino, the shirelles, st. vincent, thee oh sees, pavement, velvet underground...
Books: currently reading Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey, it is incredible.
the autobiography of red buy anne carson, most of Truman Capote, David Foster Wallace, Sepp Holtzer

Bennett:
-Music: There's a lot of music in the world and I like most of it, but here's some stuff i'm bringing on the trip: Cannonball Adderley, Harold Budd, The War On Drugs, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, The Talking Heads, Pharoah Sanders, Todd Terje, Radiohead, Arthur Russell, Atlas Sound, Grizzly Bear, Boards of Canada, The Cocteau Twins, Burial and many more.
-Books: Erasure by Percival Everett, The Bas-Lag Trilogy by China Mieville, The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer, Sometimes A Great Notion by Ken Kesey, Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, All The Rain Promises and More by David Arora, The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass, and In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan.
-Movies: Anything by Terrence Malick, Wayne's World 1 & 2, The Taste of Tea, Anything by Andrei Tarkovsky, Face/Off, Slacker, All of the Star Trek Movies, Flight of the Navigator, Toy Story 3, Radio Days.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Gracie: I raised and slaughtered two pigs and cured most of the meat, and used the rest to cater a wedding for one of my dear friends.

Bennett: I did a solo bike tour down the west coast and in the process ended up moving from Seattle to San Francisco to work with my sister.

Teach, Learn, Share

Gracie: I can teach about the tarot cards, basic song writing, cooking and food preservation, gardening, free style rapping and plant identification! I love to forage for wild foods and would love to share my cooking skills with anyone who would invite us to stay in their home!

Bennett: I can teach you how to dish sick burns to my sister, play many instruments in many musical styles and techniques, I can talk about art and the creative process, I know most media production software (Adobe CS, Ableton, Logic, Final Cut, etc...), and I can teach you how to build a sick Magic: The Gathering deck.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Great food, great jokes, good laughs, spontaneous serenades, dish washing and tidying.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, England, Germany, Israel, Italy

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy