Nitish works from home as a bioinformatics technician. Melissa is engaged in the unappreciated and unseen labor of running a household. We live with Melissa's grandmother, a country woman at heart. Her own words.

We have two cats. Their names are Diego and Trotsky. Or Jack Rackham and Anne Bonny. Or Big Candy and Little Panther Foot.

We love to feed our guests. We go to bed early. We may be a little too clean and neat.

We previously lived in New Mexico and Okinawa, so our references might confuse you.

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

Providing a comfortable and open place for wanderers is something we value. We despise "No Trespassing" signs, and couchsurfing lets us open our doors to travelers.

But we cannot do any of that and stay true to what we value without acknowledging that we are "opening" an indigenous space (land/resources) that has been colonized with our complicity or that of our ancestors'.

Centres d'intérêt

• literature
• poetry
• photography
• concerts
• dining
• cooking
• gardening
• politics
• road trips
• radio

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

Nitish likes some movies. And in music, he listens to anything from acoustic folk and jazz to downtempo and electro-pop, The Fugees and Swet Shop Boys to Iron & Wine and Sylvan Esso.

Melissa doesn't care to advertise her interests but she might give you a book for the road.

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

Not sure. Maybe living on this planet with other humans counts?

Enseignez, apprenez, partagez

We'd like to share the resources we hog.

Ce que j'aimerais partager avec mes hôtes

Blood, sweat and tears. And food!

Pays que j'ai visités

Canada, India, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

India, Japan, United States