CURRENT MISSION

My life long dream of traveling through Europe is about to happen!

ABOUT ME

I just rejoined the couchsurfing community because I am about to embark on my own adventure and I am looking for some friendly companions.

PHILOSOPHY

Live and let live. Engage, question, demand, ask, accept and be free. Free yourself from obligations, feel infinite, and make a point of cooking dinner together with your friends.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I had wonderful experiences in both Wheeling, WV and Columbus, Ohio and I want to provide other travelers with the positive experience that I had. I also hosted many wonderful couchsurfers in my home last summer.

Interests

I really like to talk politics-not to argue, but to broaden my horizons about different viewpoints and to share my own insights. I think that part of having a more successful (global) human community has everything to do with being open to discussing the hard issues and communicating effectively. So I love everything from environmental studies to psychology to fine arts and everything in between, and would love to share myself with you!

• arts
• humanities
• cooking
• politics
• traveling
• environmental studies
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

I love to read. I love to read the classics, fiction, non-fiction, science fiction, historical fiction, contemporary literature and everything else that i forgot to list or never cared to be some of my favorites include:

Ladders to Fire by Anais Nin
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Fall of the Imam by Nawal El Saadawi
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pulllman
Chuck Palahnuik Novels
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Brave New World by Adolus Huxley
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Hey, Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland

and a list that goes on and on.

Currently being played:

The Growlers
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Laura Marling
Fleetwood Mac
The Morning Benders
Monsters of Folk
She & Him
Bright Eyes
The Cave Dwellers
Band of Horses
Bon Iver

and everything else we can get our hands on.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lake Louise in Canada-the most crystaline, blue-green water I've ever seen really gave me chills. I was young when I went but I wish I could go back now to fully realize the wonders of nature.
When I went to Bali, the small village we drove through every day was participating in its annual cremation ceremony, where all of the people gathered the remains of their loved ones and they had a huge ceremony and celebration to send all of them to the afterlife together. It amazed me to be so close to a precious moment in their lives that is so dramatically different than our own funeral ceremonies here.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Singapore, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, United States