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Overview

  • 4 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning Portuguese
  • 43, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • I consider myself an inveterate traveller and indefatigab...
  • University degree
  • From West Concord, MN, United States
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Stabilize, harmonize and expand the nature of time-space in the molecular structure that is the bio-chemical composite called: me.

ABOUT ME

This blank space will convert into a rough approximation of my being: metonymous of my reality.

A bit of a gypsy, 2/3 dreamer, slight dash of anarchism (pacificist, that is), spiritual mover-and-shaker and obsessive reader, film-watcher, music-maker and dancing machine. Socializing is an occasional past-time though time in silence is golden manna from the heavens.

PHILOSOPHY

Ahimsa.

Life is fleeting and the only constant is change.

Life is suffering. All suffering is illusion.

Pare de sufrir!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Just signing up now so I'm looking to learn more about the community and then jump feet-first with the hopes of offering my house in whichEVER part of the world I end up in (with my m.o., you'll find me in the next year between Argentina, Brazil and Chile. Maybe Bolivia. Perhaps Venezuela?...you get my drift).

Interests

Music, philosophy, walking, photography, singing, dancing, languages, reading, interior-space analyzing, water-gazing, rafting, canoeing, architecture, swimming, window-watching, mysticism, literature, film, people-observing, macrame bracelet-crafting, yoga, meditation, cooking, museums, LIFE!

  • literature
  • singing
  • architecture
  • photography
  • dancing
  • cooking
  • yoga
  • meditation
  • walking
  • reading
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • music
  • piano
  • canoeing
  • swimming
  • languages
  • solo travel

Music, Movies, and Books

Any literary works by: George Orwell, Phillip Roth, Hunter S. Thompson, Bronte sisters, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Saul Bellow, Kurt Vonnegut, Herman Hesse, John Updike, Ayn Rand, Fernando Pessoa, Jorge Amado, Keats, Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Hemingway, Camus, Satre, Borges, Nietzsche, Diderot, Louise Erdreich, Garrison Keillor, etc...Viva la literatura!

Any and all film by: Bergman, Tartovsky, Lars von Trier, Aranofsky, P.T. Anderson, Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Cecil B. DeMille, Tarantino, Kubrick, Minghella, Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman, Danny Boyle, Antonioni, Wong Kar-Wai, Tim Burton,blahblahblha

Any and all music EXCEPT: country, rap, hip-hop, cumbia (with certain exceptions being made to the classics of each genre: Roy Orbison, Dre, 50 y ???)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Surviving 4+ years of solo travel with my trusty back-pack and a swiss knife for company. Make of it what you will.

Teach, Learn, Share

Indigenous traditions.
Classical piano-playing.
Esoteric general know-how.
How to make macrame!
Massage.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kosovo, Palestine, Panama, Paraguay, Serbia, Uruguay, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Peru, United States

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