My favorite animal is all animals and nobody can tell me that I can't pick that as a favorite.
I'm an aquatic scientist; I work with watersheds and fish.
If I could snowboard every single day, I would. Climbing and surfing are neat too.
I'm mostly a minimalist or at least I try.
I like to grow plants and food. I collect and make collages out of wildflowers and other things from nature.
I also really really really really really love Canada. And dogs.

aloha 'aina

I've lived in Michigan, Hawaii, Alaska, Idaho, Washington and Scotland! If you've got any plans to go to any of those places I can give you tons of tips!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Why wouldn't I be on couchsurfing?!?!! But for real, I've almost always had great experiences on here. I've hosted a lot more than I've surfed and am hoping to soon be living a place where I can host again.

Interests

• books
• photography
• cooking
• organic food
• running
• minimalism
• music
• punk music
• piano
• hiking
• camping
• surfing
• snowboarding
• swimming
• softball
• science
• flute
• biking
• longboarding
• climbing
• water
• cold
• viola

Music, Movies, and Books

Every Kurt Vonnegut Book &; almost every Philip K Dick book
Also The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, 2666, The Great Gatsby, The Motorcycle Diaries, Into the Wild, If On A Winter's Night, a Traveler and Harry Potter
Also a lot of non fiction, mostly ecology / sustainability / alternative living type books
And a million more

I love all punk music, and some other stuff too. A lot of my traveling lately coincides with going to shows. A few of my favorites are:

Against Me!, The Menzingers, The Flatliners, The Gaslight Anthem, Frank Turner, Dead to Me, The Misfits, The Dirty Nil, Jeff Rosenstock, The Hotelier, Worriers, Pup, Off With Their Heads, The Suicide Machines, Rancid, Nahko, Trevor Hall, Defeater, Polar Bear Club, La Dispute, H2O, PEARS, ToyGuitar, Fake Problems, Regina Spektor, Amy Winehouse....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I took a really cool trip to New Zealand and hiked something like 300ish km in 5.5 weeks.

I also met a really cool couple from Belgium in Hawaii that let my boyfriend and I ride around in the back of their truck for a week. We went to some sweet off the grid camping spots. They came to visit us when we were living in Detroit 6 months later & we took them to the Belgian feather bowling club in Detroit where they got to speak Flemish for the first time in almost the nine months they'd been traveling. Seems simple, but maybe simple is best.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Canada, England, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Scotland, United States