CURRENT MISSION

Moving back to USA. Packing up....

ABOUT ME

A family of five with a couch, a decent link to the bus line/ trains, and a sense of adventure. An American homebirth/birthcenter Midwife, a Swedish Nuclear Physicist turned software engineer, 2 little girls, and a baby boy.

PHILOSOPHY

Your Thoughts Create Your Reality-
Choose them Wisely

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We house you~ you house us~ we exchange homes. We all have fun adventures!

With three small kids, we tend to be sand box tourists more than museum tourists. A shore line, a shovel, and nature, and the kids are happy. Seeing the world one playground at a time.

We have a free standing guest house with two single beds. You share our living room, kitchen, and one bathroom. We also have a guest room in the house that can sleep two more, and a big play room that can house sleeping bags or cots.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Traveled summer 2010 and stayed with a people we found via couch surfer family welcome group, and hosted some in the Spring 2011. Been doing couch surfer exchanges with the extended community for years, now with the help of the internet, the wider world.

Interests

Happiness, Adventure, Kids, Natural Parenting, Spirituality, Birth, Rebirth, Mother Nature

• cooking
• scuba diving
• boxing
• paragliding
• calligraphy
• engineering
• physics
• software

Music, Movies, and Books

Anything soulful, creative, beautiful, or inspiring or action packed with good theme. We like independent music and films and the occasional blockbuster.

Movies:
Latest on the big screen: Avatar
Harold and Maude, Household Saints, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (original), Gas Food Lodging, Edward Scissor Hands and all other Tim Burton movies, All Ben Stiller's movies, Amelie, Run Lola Run, Vernon Florida, Slacker, The Sunshine State, The Garden State, Star Wars Trilogy, Lord of Rings, Jason Bourne movies, Push, Hancock, anything by "Focus Features". Husband also likes animated movies: Wall-E, Kung Fu Panda, Prince of Egypt.

Books:
All Margret Atwood, The Red Tent, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Alchemist... ask my husband for his list, it's the mama writing. Well, hubby says, latest book: City of Thieves.

Music:
Most kinds. World music. Partial to Ani DiFranco, Tori Amos, Sinead O'Conner, Motown, and 1990's indie rock like Magnetic Fields, Belle and Sebastian, Stereolab, The Flaming Lips, Sebadoh, Bob Mould, and Tool. Currently playing lots of hip kids music from Pete Seeger, Taj Mahal, Donovan, Persuasions, Sippy Cups, Laurie Berkner, Dan Zanes, and Ralph Covert.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Scuba Diving at night in Tahiti under a clear sky on a new moon with more stars than we have ever seen before.

Teach, Learn, Share

Man of the house does calligraphy, tai chi, paragliding, and personal development workshops. Woman of the house has knowledge of homeopathy, herbs, and birth/ midwifery and is a good cook.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Puerto Rico, Samoa, Switzerland, United States, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Sweden

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