Hello beatiful people! This page is for both of us: our names are Christie and Mallory. We are a couple- interested in traveling this amazing, wild, beautiful world, and all that it has to offer. We are outgoing, and definitely easy going. We love to laugh, dance, discover, seek, journey and love.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To join a community of like minded travel folks

Interests

We like everything and will most likely try anything once.

• music festivals
• meditation
• reading
• live music
• guitar
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• camping
• art
• buddhism
• mindfulness
• bluegrass
• soap making
• jewelry making
• audio engineering
• om
• music.
• metalsmithing
• the blue ridge parkway
• playing music and all types of musical instruments
• impermanence
• gemstones- faceted and rough specimens

Music, Movies, and Books

GRATEFUL DEAD. Phish. Les Claypool. Groundation!! Radiohead. Pink Floyd. Led Zeppelin. The Easy Star All Stars. The Flaming Lips. Alt-j. Stevie Wonder. Taj Mahal. Toots and the Maytals. The Avett Brothers. Doc Watson. Honeycutters. Lettuce. Tool. Tame Impala. Chris Thile. Joni Mitchell. The Punch Brothers. Neil Young. Bela fleck and the Flecktones. Victor Wooten. Sam Bush. Blind Melon. Bob Dylan. Dubconscious. Etta James. Billie Holiday. Louis Armstrong. Louis Prima. Eoto. Sound Tribe. Glitch Mob. and the list goes on and on.....

In regards to books: Siddhartha, anything from the beat genre, the Harry Potter series (of course), The Giver, James Patterson's work, Be Here Now, anything by Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Happiness and The Universe in a Single Atom by the Dalai Lama, and many others.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Christie: learned to silversmith from an amazing instructor at the John C. Campbell folk school. Mallory: learned to fly from her grandfather

What I Can Share with Hosts

Warm hearts. Respect of their space. We love cooking for others and sharing stories over a beer or glass of wine.