CURRENT MISSION

Laugh, adventure, explore, hike, write, create, think, breathe, love.

ABOUT ME

I love the outdoors - I've found that I'm the happiest when I'm immersed in nature, whether backpacking, hiking, kayaking, camping, or just exploring. Though I'm pretty introverted, I love good conversation and getting to know people of all sorts- different people's thoughts, perspectives and views on the world fascinate me.

PHILOSOPHY

Live how you want and don't let anyone give you shit about it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

“Travel is little beds and cramped bathrooms. It’s old television sets and slow Internet connections. Travel is extraordinary conversations with ordinary people. It’s waiters, gas station attendants, and housekeepers becoming the most interesting people in the world. It’s churches that are compelling enough to enter. It’s McDonald’s being a luxury. It’s the realization that you may have been born in the wrong country. Travel is a smile that leads to a conversation in broken English. It’s the epiphany that pretty girls smile the same way all over the world. Travel is tipping 10% and being embraced for it. Travel is the same white T-shirt again tomorrow. Travel is accented sex after good wine and too many unfiltered cigarettes. Travel is flowing in the back of a bus with giggly strangers. It’s a street full of bearded backpackers looking down at maps. Travel is wishing for one more bite of whatever that just was. It’s the rediscovery of walking somewhere. It’s sharing a bottle of liquor on an overnight train with a new friend. Travel is 'Maybe I don’t have to do it that way when I get back home.'”

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm fairly new to this community, but I love it so far!

Interests

Adventure. Good music. Good coffee. Hiking. Camping. Painting. Writing. Reading. Meeting new people. Traveling.

• writing
• wine
• coffee
• walking
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• music
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• backpacking
• kayaking
• camping
• cartography

Music, Movies, and Books

Music - Tigers Jaw, Alt-J, Dr. Dog, Ben Howard, Fruit Bats, Mac DeMarco, Bon Iver, Dave Matthews, The Front Bottoms, Modern Baseball, The Kooks, Local Natives, The National, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pink Floyd, Typhoon, The XX, Youth Lagoon, Dirty Projectors, Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend, Tallest Man On Earth, and so many more bands good god

Movies - Silver Linings Playbook, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fight Club, The Sandlot, Boyhood, Donnie Darko, all the Harry Potters

Books - The Book Thief, Go Ask Alice, all the Harry Potters, anything written by Charles Bukowski, Sylvia Plath, Chuck Pahlniuk, F. Scott, Poe, Andrea Gibson, Gillian Flynn, so many more

Countries I’ve Visited

Aruba, Bahamas, Canada, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, United States, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States