CURRENT MISSION

couches, eats, dancing, eating & dancing on couches with awesome people

ABOUT ME

It's eight of us:

Kat , Mary, Paul, Kay, Bryan, Pierre, Sarah, and Shayne

Gone but not forgotten:
Radu Dumitrascu
Allison Laskey
Erin Peot
Cooper Swift
Selene Schintu
Elizabeth Murphy
Mauricio Solano
Olga Dal Monte
Matthijs Schuring
Ann-Sofie Jespersen
Rustin Partow
Gedalya Chinn
Matthew McNaughton

If you want to see some of us, check out this short video. We have a tradition, every Sunday we try to do something together. This was one of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWMsV56ZCKg

PHILOSOPHY

In the basement, we have a ping pong table. Fair enough. (actually, the pingpong table has been replaced by a pole...to support the house that is.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We participate by providing couches and offering our guests spicy food. Years from now, these couchsurfers will remark, "Damn that shit was spicy, and there was a couch involved!"

We throw famously epic parties varying from life music to dj dance parties to packed-to-the-brim dinners and other such things. If we don't have a couch to share chances are we'll have a gathering we'd love you to come to!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We usually just offer our home to travelers. Kat surfs regular when she's going abroad. More importantly though, we are all open and we welcome people in our lives.
Also the languages that we listed are sometimes current but there's a lot of flux- if we don't currently speak your language sorry!

Interests

Cooking bean-and-rice based dishes, Drinking beer and wine, Addressing women's issues, Raising money for charity, Promoting environmental stewardship, Talking about sciency stuff, Planting a lackluster garden, Cycling, Football, David Hasselhoff, Actual Surfing, Avoiding knee injuries, Thwarting piracy in the Amazon Basin, transparafying all of government, socio-cultural change, primitivism, breastfeeding, food recovery, and anarchism.

• arts
• folklore
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• partying
• drinking
• gardening
• dumpster diving
• music
• violin
• cycling
• surfing
• scuba diving
• soccer
• table tennis
• emergency services
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Quite eclectic - We have appreciation for most things, from pop stuff to remote, underground, alternative stuff.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Together we've played in D.C. igloos made in the middle of Snowmaggedon, joined the city in a thousand person snowball fight, traveled together to Costa Rica, convinced the nice police and neighbors not to shut down our 5am parties, cooked feasts of Thanksgiving dinner, birthday dinners, and weekly dinners, and celebrated our roommates three day engagement to courthouse wedding and reception celebration at our home. We love this beautiful world with all its chaos, frustrations, insecurities and flaws, and the kick-ass people that make it wonderful.

Teach, Learn, Share

House shows in the District! Beekeeping knowledge! Dumpster diving expertise! Philosophical distinctions between art/Art nudity/nakedness! Really good celeriac recipies! Pressure cooker experiments! Violin! Singin to Amy Winehouse! Dancin up a storm!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Cambodia, Canada, Costa Rica, Egypt, Germany, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Romania, Senegal, Tanzania, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Costa Rica, Germany, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Romania, United Kingdom, United States