CURRENT MISSION

To explore!

ABOUT ME

Friendly, outdoorsy, open-minded, kind.

I was raised by hippie Quaker parents who taught me to listen well, be curious but skeptical, fight for justice, and be thorough.
I was raised in the inner city, and learned that poverty flows from historical and modern day injustice. I learned that the wealthy never think they are. I learned that the GDP is a measure of how fast we are turning the living world into dead things that can be sold.
I live in Tucson because I love sunshine and mountains and deserts. I work backstage for touring broadway shows, concerts, operas, dance companies and theatre, because it's exciting and always new and unexpected.
I love to travel and make new friends.

PHILOSOPHY

You don't have to fuck people over to survive.
I think people all have common interests that are worth working toward, and that all people are fundamentally good. Destructive behavior, violence, hatred, are all leaned and they are taught. But so are kindness and empathy.
I believe the earth is our mother and labor creates all wealth. I believe in fundamental human rights. I believe that people helping strangers is a beautiful thing.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have been part of a similar online community called "warm showers" which is geared toward touring bicyclists. I have hosted people and been hosted through that site for many years. I've always known about couchsurfing, but just decided to get started.

Interests

AcroYoga, harvesting native foods, bicycling, hiking, juggling, rock climbing, unicycling, photography, games of all sorts, freight train hopping, cooking....eating!

• dogs
• photography
• concerts
• dancing
• human rights
• cooking
• traveling
• juggling
• cycling
• hiking
• kayaking
• swimming
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Wallace and Grommit, anything by Teri Gilliam or Jean-Pierre Jeunet or Tim Burton.
Music: Bad Religion, Old Crow Medicine Show, Johnny Cash, Holcombe Waller, Ben Howard, Gillian Welch, Massive Attach, Muddy Waters, Phil Ochs, Stevie Wonder....and on and on.
Books: The selected works of T.S. Spivet, Kurt Vonegut, Steinbeck, Howard Zinn, Studs Turkell, Carl Hiaasen, Derek Jensen.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Bicycled by tandem bike, with a 60lb. dog in a trailer, from Tucson, AZ to Portland, Maine without really planning a route and camped the whole way there.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: AcroYoga, Juggling, unicycling, plant ID in the Sonoran desert, bicycle repair, freight-hopping, folding paper cranes, electrical theory.
Learn: Musical instruments, kayaking or river rafting, hacking.
Share: Songs