My wife, Stacey, and I are from the western United States. We quit our jobs and are traveling for a year (2018), with the focus of seeing new places, meeting people from all over the world and sharing culture, language, traditions, food, and ideas. We want to be students and learn and rest lots. My wife spent 7 years serving people who became refugees by teaching them English and helping them find jobs and I worked in marketing. We are also very clean guests and want to treat the space we are in as we would want our home to be treated-clean :) Update: We returned back to the USA to live again as of September 2019, and are doing marketing and film production work and Stacey is starting her own business online helping people with health issues to travel in spite of health restrictions.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

We are hoping to meet local people from the countries we visit and learn their culture from them. Local contacts always make a place you visit much more enjoyable.

Interests

We love learning new things and hope to get better at the things we already do :)

• fashion
• photography
• dancing
• yoga
• reading
• hiking
• backpacking
• camping
• mountain biking
• tea
• videography
• biking
• bike riding
• cleaning
• tiny houses
• nutrition
• campfires
• camera
• curling
• teaching english
• drinking coffee
• learning spanish
• gluten free
• swimming in the sea
• learning arabic

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Folk music, Latin music, violin and guitar, Arabic music, and more.

Movies:
Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Jane the Virgin, The Office, Friends,This is Us, and we LOVE watching documentaries

Books:
Books on spiritual life, history, peace, politics, yoga, film making, trauma healing, travel, psychology

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Quiting our jobs to travel the world. Seeing little kids in Rwanda play the most beautiful music and the adults greeting us with singing and dance as we came to their village to meet them.

Teach, Learn, Share

My wife teaches English, American culture, and about refugees. She also LOVES nutrition and can help you craft a healthy and healing diet. I can teach about photography and videography.

We want to learn: Spanish and Arabic language, cooking ethnic foods where we are, sailing, snorkeling, horseback riding, yoga, history of the areas we are in and more :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

English, photography of you and your family, gluten free cooking

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Algeria, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Rwanda, Scotland, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Ecuador, Sweden, Turkey, United States