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  • 59 references 48 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English
  • 61, Female
  • Member since 2010
  • volunteer and try to be a generous giver rather than a ca...
  • MS Resource Management Administration, BA Business Manage...
  • From Vermont
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About Me

I'M CURRENTLY IN SEWARD ALASKA FOR SUMMER '21. COME VISIT IF YOU CAN GET THROUGH THE BORDER!!!

CURRENT MISSION

To contribute wholly to the well being of the planet and humanity while minimizing my contributions to greenhouse gases.

ABOUT ME
Bouncing back and forth between MT and VT
Environmentalist. Humanitarian. Former Foster Parent. Peace Activist. EMT, fairy godmother, Hospice volunteer. Help people survive, thrive, be alive and ultimately die. Full circuit.

I'm solar powered. Need lots of sunshine literally AND figuretively to make me tick. Consciously try to live a low carbon footprint life.

Need my beauty rest. Eight hours about gets me through.

PHILOSOPHY

Leave the world better then when I arrived.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Enjoying the companionship and communities of hosts. Learning from it all! Spreading the gospel. Hosting those passing through our area.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Been hosting international exchange students all my life - Brazil, Ecuador, Ireland.

Now I am also a Warm Showers host for cyclists. http://www.warmshowers.org/

Interests

Learning to play the banjo! Hiking, cycling, hitchhiking, backpacking, disc golf, ultimate frisbee, picking berries; making jam. Foreign/Independent films. Shamanism, sweat lodges, alternative medicine. Traveling! ha, ha, ha!

  • dancing
  • ballroom dancing
  • running
  • movies
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • backpacking
  • medicine
  • hitchhiking
  • volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Favs - Sliding Doors, Pay It Forward, The Lovely Bones, Working Girl, Life is Beautiful, Maria Full of Grace, Taken. Most any foreign drama.

Music: Louis Armstrong, Michael Franti, Niamh Parson The Water is Wide, George Winston, Mary Black, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Natalie McMasters, Alison Kraus, Susan Boyle's I Dreamed a Dream.
Books: Zookeeper's Wife, Leadership and the New Science by Meg Wheatley. Pema Chodron. Dalai Lama. Thich Nhat Han.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Met a man who was run over by a tractor trailer, died, and came back to this side of the veil 90 minutes later. Highly unlikely anything will ever surpass that experience but ya never know.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can learn something from EVERYONE! Anyone for rock climbing?

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Brazil, Canada, Fiji, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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