CURRENT MISSION

to check off all the places to visit on my bucket list

ABOUT ME

I'm a cat person, but I always greet dogs on the sidewalk. I love to laugh, dance, play, sew, paint, debate, write, read, ski, cook, bake, do yoga, play with photoshop...the list goes on. I'm always up for adventure and/or silliness, as long as there's a camera coming along.

PHILOSOPHY

Happiness is a choice. Sleep when you're dead. Your stomach doesn't have eyes. The only thing we're guaranteed is right now. Don't complain about something if you can do something about it; and if you are doing something about it, then stop complaining!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm new to all this, but for now, all I can offer is good company, as the sofa does not belong to me.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm doin it right now!

Interests

Pretty much everything. I consider myself a research-aholic. I love to learn/try new things. I just got back from fiesta mayor, where I danced the night away to an amazing drum line! I also love making friends with people I sit next to on airplanes. You get a lot of business cards, and exchange lots of interesting stories that way!

• cats
• dogs
• arts
• dancing
• cooking
• yoga
• painting
• blues
• sailing
• skiing
• art history
• business
• history
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: short circuit, eternal sunshine, 16 candles, office space, pretty woman, shakespeare in love, napoleon dynamite, monty python and the holy grail, sliding doors, i am sam, crazy people, cinema paradisio, perfume: the story of a murderer, reign on me, little miss sunshine, memoirs of a geisha, being john malcovich, the birdcage....

Books:jane eyre, the tenant of wildfell hall, wuthering heights, the lovely bones, the fledgling, black like me, great expectations, invisible monsters, the journals of dan eldon, my sister's keeper, sexual politics, get your tongue out of my mouth i'm kissing you goodbye!, truth and beauty, the black dahlia files, vanishing acts, harvesting the heart, the breakdown lane, the sharper your knife the less you cry, crazy: a father's search through america's mental health madness, the soloist, eat love pray, swimming to antarctica.....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

painting the sunset in montana, fighting fire in missouri, photographing salmon in alaska, painting a mural of the national heroes in jamaica, petting jellyfish in the BVIs, following the wind to the mediterranean, participating in an artist's residency in spain, building houses in mexico, sailing with my dad all over the carribean and SF bay, winning the history fair in 7th grade

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to Texas two-step, and maybe a little lindy hop or blues, but most of the dancing I do is either improv or I just fake it till I make it! I've also been painting for about 20 years so I might be able to teach a little art, and I loooove art history, so I like to think I'm a good person to have along in a museum-- free, enthusiastic tour guide!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Jamaica, Mexico, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Spain, United States, Virgin Islands, British

Countries I’ve Lived In

Spain

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