CURRENT MISSION

To make new friends, hear travel stories, laugh, and if I like them enough- give them housing

ABOUT ME

I love people but can be shy. I am quiet, friendly, silly when the mood strikes, a terrible cook, a good eater, a pianist, taiko drummer, coffee addict, book worm, and traveller.

PHILOSOPHY

No matter how beautiful a place, rich in money, or accomplished in a career, they don't mean anything to me without people. They are the ones who make my world - my family, my friends, the people I meet along the way. I have been touched by kindness, inspired by strife, brought joy by laughter, and all by people I've been lucky enough to meet. I want to spend my life giving back the best I can.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Just hosted my first guest and it was great!

Interests

Hiking, biking, reading, writing, listening to travel stories, piano playing, taiko drumming,... there's more but I can't think of them at the moment

• writing
• books
• cooking
• coffee
• reading
• traveling
• piano
• cycling
• hiking

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS - The Cloud Atlas, Mountains Beyond Mountains, The Bean Trees, Don Quixote, Pay It Forward, The Kindness of Strangers, Love in the Time of Cholera, Poisonwood Bible, Endurance, Kite Runner, Life of Pi, A Hundred Years of Solitude, News of a Kidnapping, Teacher Man, Memoirs of a Geisha, Snow Falling on Cedars, Da Vinci Code, Pride and Prejudice, It's Not About the Bike (Lance Armstrong), Three Cups of Tea, Mere Christianity
MOVIES - Shrek, El Pianista, House of Flying Daggers, Pirates of the Caribbean, Life is Beautiful, Lord of the Rings, Hero, Wallace & Gromit, Amadeus, Sneakers, Seven Years in Tibet, Shawshank Redemption, Pursuit of Happyness, The Holiday
MUSIC - World music (African stuff, especially), classical, jazz, bluegrass, Celtic

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

People who are poor but work like crazy, and still have the heart to smile.

Teach, Learn, Share

Always leave a place better than you found it.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Colombia, Japan, United States