CURRENT MISSION

Road less traveled

ABOUT ME

We are a couple who love to do things differently. Always up for a good time, a long chat, and meeting new people. We want our door to swing open often. We love to bike around town, garden, play with the dog, sit for hours reading a book, camp, cook, hike.

These days most of our time is spent hanging out with our almost 1 year old and almost 3 year old little girls. Jason works full time and Kalene runs a photography business and is in graduate school.

PHILOSOPHY

We are only asked to love, to offer hope to the many hopeless. We don't get to choose all the endings, but we are asked to play the rescuers. We won't solve all mysteries and our hearts will certainly break in such a vulnerable life, but it is the best way. We were made to be lovers bold in broken places, pouring ourselves out again and again until we're called home.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Newbies

Interests

Travel. Art. Music. Film. Nature. People.

Kayaking, fishing, swimming, the great outdoors, water and woods and sky. Photography, Mixed Media, Collage, painting, the Naive arts. Research, history. Fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, biography, Documentary Films. Social work, social change, social justice, psychology. Real food, Slow Food Movement, Organic Farming, pacifism.

• dogs
• arts
• books
• photography
• documentaries
• dining
• cooking
• gardening
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• eating out
• painting
• music
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• fishing
• hiking
• kayaking
• camping
• swimming
• business
• communications
• history
• psychology
• science
• social work

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES:
The Sphere, The Mothman Propechies, The Village, Crash, Traffic, I am Sam, Everything is Illuminated, Amalie, Life is Beautiful, Things We Lost In The Fire, The Fall, The Darjeeling Limited, Born Into Brothels, Away We Go.

MUSIC:
Copeland, Fionn Reggan, DAMIEN RICE, Bright Eyes, Band of Horses, Mika, SUFJAN STEVENS, The Killers, MEWITHOUTYOU, As Cities Burn, Sigur Ros, Kings of Leon, Justice, Why?, Ryan Adams.

BOOKS:
The Red Tent, There is No Me Without You, My Antonia, Angela's Ashes, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Chronicles of Narnia, Searching for God Know's What, Real Food.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Visited a village located in a "trash dump" in Brazil.

Teach, Learn, Share

Photography. John Deere Mowers. Gardening. Home remodels.

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, United States