CURRENT MISSION

Escape from New York

ABOUT ME

I'm nice. I have fun. I'm laid back to a fault.
I love the way a new city smells and sounds and moves. I love new foods and new personalities and languages I don't understand. My curiosity is insatiable and I can't bear to stay in one place for long.

PHILOSOPHY

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity."
William Blake, Proverbs of Hell

"Travel, write, translate. Learn to live everywhere. Begin at once. The future belongs to the curious."
-Jules et Jim

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've met some really interesting people, weird people, hilarious people, generous people, inspiring people, incredibly fun people.

Interests

Writing, reading, cooking, eating, drinking, cats, trains, sunrises, oceans, fog, lightning bugs, trying to teach myself French by watching Renoir films.

• cats
• writing
• cooking
• drinking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Dostoevsky, Melville, Flaubert, Nietzsche, Sartre, Lorca, Mayakovsky, Baudelaire, Camus, Zweig, The Clash, Manu Chao, The Stooges, Melvins, Fugazi, The Wipers, Dead Boys, Bikini Kill, Huggy Bear, Truffaut, Antonioni, Chabrol, Godard, Jean Vigo, Agnes Varda, Ingmar Bergman, Rossellini, Cassavettes, Maurice Pialat, Leos Carax

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Last week I ate a whole onion skin because I was told it would cure stomach flu. I guess I'll try anything once.

Teach, Learn, Share

I will teach you to get the seeds out of a pomegranate if you teach me to play the accordion or speak french.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Colombia, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Panama, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Costa Rica, Spain, United States