I'm an engineer, a peace corps volunteer, an environmentalist and now a first time mom. I'm not doing any hosting or surfing or even traveling now, and certainly miss it. I look forward to traveling again when my son's a little older. Traveling with a family will be a new adventure.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

I've met some great people hosting couchsurfers, and then was able to go visit them when I was traveling. Traveling is so much better when you know people where you're going.

兴趣

development work, clean water, cooking, building anything, travel, ultimate frisbee, photography, hiking, languages, reading, card games

• photography
• cooking
• chocolate
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• hiking
• engineering
• languages
• volunteering

音乐、电影和书籍

Qiu Xiaolong's Inspector Chen Novels, anything by Haruki Murakami (though I can't read more than one of his books in a row), Born to Run, The Girl With Glass Feet, and many more not currently sitting on my bookshelf.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

The day I made my own chocolate . . . I thought I loved chocolate before, but the smell and the taste of freshly toasted, freshly ground cacao, it's a totally different beast. Rich, subtle, earthy, heavenly and completely intoxicating. The pound of beans I'd bought didn't last me a week.

教，学，和分享

I love to cook, to teach it, learn it or just do it. One of my favorite parts of traveling is getting to cook in a foreign country and learn local dishes.

我游览过的国家

Belgium, Cambodia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, France, Greece, Guatemala, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

我居住过的国家

Germany, Panama, United States

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