TRAVELERS, PLEASE NOTE:
We are NOT in Washington DC. We are in Washington State, on the West Coast of the US. Due to the high number of mistaken requests from DC travelers, any such requests to stay with us will be declined with no explanation or note. Sorry if this seems rude, but this is getting a little bit tiring. Thank you for the understanding.

CURRENT MISSION
Dustin: To go on adventures in the beautiful part of the country we're living in, to learn about quantum computing and machine learning and use them to make people's lives better. To finish the video game Masha and I are making.
Masha: To meet fascinating people. To create many beautiful things and see as much of the world as possible in a lifetime. To finish the video game Dustin and I are making.

PHILOSOPHY
I think we're here to add a touch of the bizarre to everyone else's life experience.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
Now we can finally offer traveling friends a place to stay, since we have our own house! We really enjoy having people over, and we try to make as cozy a stay as possible. Stay with us and you're bound to have deep conversations, play board games, or even come out and look at the stars in one of the darkest night skies in the US. But you'll also get lots of questions about your corner of the world - we want to hear everything!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Since we started offering our home as a place to stay, we've met many amazing people, a couple of whom became good friends with whom we've gone on great adventures. Having couch surfers makes our home a warmer, brighter place. We haven't had the chance to couchsurf ourselves too much, but hopefully that will change in the future!

Interests

Dustin: Physics, programming, aerial dance, exploring, physics sandbox and some FPS computer games.

Masha: Glassblowing, ink drawing and digital art, exploring different kinds of music (I have a radio show on the local community station), playing retrostyle and classic platformer games.

• arts
• books
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• hiking
• animation
• physics
• science
• poi
• programming
• glassblowing
• game design
• compsci

Music, Movies, and Books

Fiction: Terry Pratchett, Robin Sloan, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, The Magicians series
NonFiction: Godel-Escher-Bach, Your Inner Fish, lots of astronomy, ecology, and quantum mechanics.
Movies:
Masha - I really love animation, so a lot of Pixar works and anime. Lots of nature documentaries. Also Guardians of the Galaxy and X-Men
Dustin: Ex Machina, Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Parasyte: The Maxim, Interstellar

TV: The Magicians, Sense 8, Stranger Things, Gravity Falls, Rick and Morty, lots of youtube like Sixty Symbols, Vsauce, Veritaseum
Music: Infected Mushroom, Shpongle, Savant, Disasterpeace, Calexico, Lindsey Stirling, Medeski Martin and Wood

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Climbed Mt. St. Helens and witnessed a rock slide.
Descended into the bottom of the Grand Canyon and came back out after 5 days.
Saw the hottest thing possible to see with the naked eye- the sun's corona at the total eclipse!
Swum in many crystal-clear springs in Florida, descended down 35 feet (freediving) to put our faces against the gushing spring.
Spent 2 weeks in Japan in a completely different culture with incredible people, music, and food.

Teach, Learn, Share

Soldering and basic electronics
Basics of programming (and more if you're intermediate or better)
Cool math and physics concepts
Blender/Photoshop/GameMaker Studio
Ink drawing
Russian
Glasswork

What I Can Share with Hosts

If we're not too busy I can show you a bit of glassblowing. You're free to browse our library and if it's a clear night let's pull out the telescope and see what we can find!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Russian Federation, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Israel, United States