ABOUT ME

I am an excellent drinking buddy : ) I'm currently living in NYC, but I've always found it hard to stay in one place. Next trip - Asia. Message me, I'm friendly!

PHILOSOPHY

Good on ya, man.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I surfed for most of the 2012 summer throughout Europe and had fantastic experiences that afforded me life-long friendships.

Interests

The thing that grabs my attention most is probably people. I find one of the best opportunities of travel is meeting and understanding other ways of life and perceptions of the world, and sharing my own in return. The more I interact with others, the better my life becomes. Apart from that, I love the outdoors. I don't get much of that in NYC but, being from Colorado, snow boarding, hiking, climbing, biking are all in my blood. Snow boarding especially, I miss it! I consider winter to be totally pointless unless you can spend most of it on a mountain. I also enjoy writing, Literature was one of my majors in college, and I'm always game for a challenging existential debate over some wine. Ok, lots of wine.

• writing
• literature
• wine
• running
• drinking
• clothing
• traveling
• billiards
• cars
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• snowboarding
• rock climbing
• swimming
• tourism

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Canyoning in Switzerland is definitely one. Canyoning is pretty much what it sounds like, you drive to the top of a canyon, repel into it, then travel down through the ravine by sliding, jumping, falling, and hiking down the waterfalls. It was one of the scariest and most exhilarating experiences I've ever had, and supremely, terrifyingly fun. How awesome is it to treat a waterfall like a water slide?! Hasn't everyone who has ever seen a waterfall EVER wanted to do that?! And jumping off a thirty foot cliff into a little pool of water that's five feet by five feet is no joke. About halfway down you think you should have hit the water already, and by the time you realize your still falling, BOOM! Swim! A true testament to one's courage, every time we stood at the top of one of the falls and our guide explained how to maneuver through it, I thought, "um, yeah, I'm not doing that." I thought it till the very second my feet left the ground, and then I was at the bottom and, ha! That was pretty effing cool. I am pretty, effing cool.

Another moment, also outside, was the first time I went back country snow boarding. Me and some friends drove up this pass, parked, and then hiked along this ridge for maybe an hour, until we got to the top. Now, let me explain, when I say "hiked" what I really mean is struggled indignantly while we sweated through four layers of clothes, in snowboarding boots that don't allow you to move your ankles, with ten pound snow boards on our shoulders and canteens full of jagermeister jammed into our coat pockets. It sucked. When we finally reached the summit and strapped in, I looked down the pass at the waist high, untouched powder, turned to my boyfriend (at the time) and asked, in all seriousness, "am I going to die." He shrugged.
Well, obviously, I didn't die, and in fact that run was so incomparably perfect that to describe it now feels almost blasphemous. I literally floated down that mountain, and the hours of uncomfortable struggle, the fear, the hesitation, burned away in those few moments of pure, incandescent joy. Then we were at the bottom, elated, screaming, high-fiving, and also quickly realizing that our cars had remained at the top. Oh dear.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to edit audio on Garage Band and create a podcast!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States