I'm curious and known for smiling a lot. I'm always up for meeting good people, making good conversation, and for having a good time.

I'm happiest in fresh air. I like to take the scenic route, cycle as much as possible, hike, camp, play the flute, beach-comb, picnic, wander through museums/galleries, canoe/kayak, explore old buildings, and so on.

A long-term travel dream: I'd love to cycle/camp the ring road in Iceland.

PHILOSOPHY

if you hold a green branch in your heart, a singing bird will come. -chinese proverb

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'd be up for meeting for coffee or a drink, and hanging out. I know some good places to see/eat/listen to music/explore.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I stayed with a friend of a couch-surfer who's the friend of a friend who's a couch-surfer in Paris, and I've couch-surfed (legit) in Montreal, on both sides of doing the Explore Program in Chicoutimi. It was awesome. Swing dancing, cooking, biking - super fun. More recently I couch-surfed in Lille, France, where our gracious host led us to the best parts of La Braderie and introduced us to Picon a Biere (delicious). Keen to do more.

Interests

there's a wide variety, let's see. art+traveling, ideas+history, current events+archeology, architecture+politics, human rights+photography, languages+music, noise/sound+food systems, gardening+bikes, design+planning. figuring out how to be a good person, and what all makes me (and others) happy. it goes on.

• arts
• singing
• architecture
• design
• photography
• dancing
• swing dancing
• human rights
• dining
• cooking
• recipes
• coffee
• picnic
• drinking
• gardening
• politics
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• canoeing
• kayaking
• camping
• archeology
• history
• languages
• long-term travel
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

books (oh, so many!) -- to kill a mockingbird, hungry city: how food shapes our lives, middlemarch, don quixote, the sun also rises+a moveable feast, invisible cities, anna karenina, brothers karamazov, the count of monte cristo, jane eyre, howard's end, running in the family, breakfast at tiffany's...

most recently purchased/gifted music -- townes van zandt, belle and sebastien, nico, the smiths, joni mitchell, elvis costello. i love leonard cohen, and it goes on.

movies i've enjoyed -- annie hall/manhattan, cave of forgotten dreams, funny face, the history boys, to kill a mockingbird, life aquatic, pulp fiction, spaghetti westerns, etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I guess it would have to be night-skinny-dipping in greece, with bio-luminescent organisms glowing in the water and constellations shining bright above, and feeling very much at one with the universe.

Teach, Learn, Share

I know a bit about architecture, if you're interested, and am always up for helping out with handywork. I could teach you how to read music/play the flute.

I worked at a bead store for a long time, so I can repair a lot of jewelry, and teach you how to make some.

I know some good recipes.

Always up for sharing a laugh.

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