CURRENT MISSION

To get out and see and experience the real world before we decide to get tied down with the "real world" (jobs, house, etc...) After living and working in VT for 6 years, we decided it was time to quit our jobs and set out on this mission!

ABOUT ME

We met at University of Vermont, and we both lived there for 6 years total, and lived together for 2 of those 6 years. At college, neither of us ever had the opportunity to study abroad, something that we both were very interested in. We had talked about moving to another country to immerse ourselves in a culture other than that of the United States, and finally Becky had the idea to move to New Zealand for a year. So, we decided to save up, quit our jobs, and do just that!

PHILOSOPHY

Play now, work later...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My sister has been CouchSurfing for a couple years now, and not until meeting many of her friends that she made on the site did I realize how much of an amazing community it is. I wish I had joined sooner so I would have been able to host people while I still lived in Vermont, but the future will hold many new opportunities to do that!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have hosted a few CouchSurfers with my sister in Vermont, and I have spent a lot of time with countless other visiting CouchSurfers that I have met through my sister and have heard nothing but positive things about their experiences. I am very excited about going to New Zealand and hopefully meeting other people from the CouchSurfing community there!

Interests

There are so many things that we are interested in, but some of the big ones are all forms of exploring, hiking, backpacking, snowboarding, biking, traveling, swimming, cliff jumping, cooking, potlucks (eating!), chilling, good food, good drinks, good people, good conversation! playing board games, listening to/creating music, reading books, playing in the sun, and most importantly loving the life we live!

• culture
• books
• dining
• cooking
• recipes
• drinking
• board games
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• hiking
• backpacking
• snowboarding
• cliff jumping
• swimming
• languages
• study abroad

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Life of Pi, Millenium Trilogy, Water for Elephants, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, just to name a few semi recent ones, too many to list!
TV: Haven't had cable in years, but still streaming/downloading shows online (Dexter, Community (sometimes), Arrested Development, Lost, 30 Rock, Boardwalk Empire, Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Movies: a lot. Maybe I'll make a list one day :)
Music: Almost everything! Recently been really digging Dr. Dog, Vampire Weekend, Black Keys, and older stuff, Thievery Coroporation, Tenacious D! Cake, LCD Soundsystem, Taarka, The Bird and the Bee, Weezer, yargh too many to list again, just ask us!!!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Survived an earthquake in Christ Church, had a face to face showdown with a mama black bear and her cub in Yosemite (they won)

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: guitar, how to make amazing dumplings, snowboarding, Bear-Ninja-Cowboy (much better than Rocks-Paper-Scissors), scrabble skills and how to rule Catan!
Learn: more guitar, ukulele, languages
Share: music recommendations, recipes, drinks, stories, jokes, laughs and good times!

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, Germany, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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