CURRENT MISSION

Meet some new faces while doing lots of races in all sorts of different places! :p

ABOUT ME

I am a Marathon Maniac, and so my travel destinations almost always include somewhere that a marathon is being run! I have thus far completed marathons in all 50 US states as well as on all 7 continents, and am half way through round two of the states!

I met a lot of cool friends through running, so I have not used CS for a while, as I have had a lot of roomshare options with my 50 States running friends. However, I am planning some solo road trips upcoming, so I am getting back into it (2015).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hang out with CS locals thru the groups and events, as well as host out-of-towners or be hosted when I'm traveling. The best way I have found to be a part of this community is by by meeting all sorts of cool people--- either by having them stay with me when they travel, meeting up in some mutual setting by chance or plan, or hanging out with them when I travel to their town, where I can learn about the area from their local expertise!

Interests

learning and research, health, fitness & wellness, religion, history, politics, psychology, philosophy, physiology, nutrition, exercise, ecology, culture, economics, current global national and local events, reading, writing, talking, listening, thinking, self-actualization, life and not life

• culture
• writing
• fitness
• exercise
• marathon
• running
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• ecology
• economics
• history
• psychology
• religion
• road trips

Music, Movies, and Books

I enjoy a variety of music ranging from oldies, pop, rock, dance, even some rap, country, and gospel :)

Movies I enjoy include Mean Girls! Silence of the Lambs, The Butterfly Effect, Signs, The Others, Clueless, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, Legally Blonde

Favorite Books: The Pleasure of Philosophy, Common Sense, Iliad, Silence of the Lambs, The Namesake, etc etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Proust

..Gosh so many. Maybe one thing from a few travel areas instead? Saw the pope / Vatican / Sistine Chapel in Rome, the Barrier Reef in Australia, penguins in Antarctica & Chile, the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro at the glaciers and clouds below, Great Wall in China, Awesome sting rays in Grand Cayman, and some gorgeous Glaciers in Alaska, USA

Teach, Learn, Share

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is bitterest." -Confucius

My abilities include
-completing / planning marathons
-knowledge in health fields (like fitness, nutrition, psychology)
-listening and being there for others, while learning from them and sharing with them.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? -Jean Jacques Rousseau

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself. -Kahlil Gibran

Countries I’ve Visited

Antarctica, Australia, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Fiji, France, Italy, Jamaica, Switzerland, Tanzania, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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