CURRENT MISSION
Meet kind people, learn about myself and the world through travel, immediate experience and learning!

ABOUT ME

I am a curious and spunky person. I have deep roots in the Detroit, Michigan area. I like discovering new places by getting to know people and want to learn about new ways of being and doing! One of my favorite mantras is: patience, process, presence.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Travel to me is about journeying- getting to know people, getting a taste of their lifestyle, and how they move about in the place they call home. I enjoy communal activities like cooking and I love sharing my energy, interests, and about my home city Detroit!

Interests

I try to cultivate respect for the interconnection of life on all levels: personal, interpersonal, communal, global, cosmic. I like an active lifestyle with a healthy dose of both adventure and chillin. I am fascinated by culture, religion, spirituality and psychology. I love making and listening to music. I enjoy cooking, dancing, yoga, climbing things and joking around. And I always come with a guitar!

How I spend my time when I'm not traveling: I am a caretaker for an elderly couple, which is interesting on many levels. I'm working as a musician, growing plants, and trying to stay focused on this album I'm writing!

• culture
• dancing
• education
• cooking
• vegetarian
• yoga
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• hiking
• hinduism
• teaching
• medicine
• psychology
• religion

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Harold and Maude, Waking life, Nausica of the Valley of the Wind, Samsara, I Heart Huckabees, Forrest Gump

Books: The Prophet, Rumi, The Tao of Physics, Glass Castle, anything by Toni Morrison, Shantaram, philosophy by MLK, The Hobbit, DUNE, the Parable of the Sower

Music: Motown, soul, r&b, acoustic, folk and strong female vocalists come out on top.

Whats currently in my ear: Rising Appalachia, Nakho the bear, Jill Scott, ladybug mecca, fkj, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Kendrick Lamar, Rhye, twin sister

Always on tap: Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Erykah Badhu, local Detroit bands, White Stripes, Cat Stevens, Michael Jackson, Dr Dog, Tycho, Lhasa de Sela, Mariah Carey

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I saw the ruins of last Hindu empire in hampi, Karnataka. The decapitated heads of the elephant statues were still strewn about on the ground and the thousand year old temple for hanuman was still in use for worship.

Teach, Learn, Share

Share: music, basic yoga, some vegetarian cooking

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Cambodia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Viet Nam