biking across the country and we will certainly need lots of places to stay! we have a tent, and sleeping bags/mats, so even just a cozy patch of grass to lay our heads on would help us out. especially interested in meeting other bike friends, or actually just about anyone.

rough outline of our route:
WA, ID, MT, ND, MN, WI, MI, ON, NY, PA, MD

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

couchsurfing has given me the opportunity to meet many wonderful, open-minded and generous people in some unexpected places. it has inspired me to trust and accept kindness always, because its not everyday that someone youve known for a few hours will offer to take you to a buddhist amusement park, you know?

Interests

writing letters, cooperative living and eating, dancing, practicing spanish, bike riding/maintenance, queer theory, immigration policy, reproductive justice, wearing lipstick, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, kale, feral children, menstrual cups, staring at maps, nutritional yeast, anarcha-feminism, artisan cheese and yogurt making, mermaids, summer camp, jumping into puddles, jumping out of birthday cakes

this youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR78mxrE7z0

• writing
• festivals
• dancing
• womens rights
• cheese
• flying
• gardening
• cycling
• camping
• cartography
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

movies: american beauty, amores perros, 28 days later, gummo, all miyazaki movies

music: bibio, cocorosie, animal collective, kate bush, joanna newsom, devendra banhart, all kinds of dreamy synth pop and ambient, lo-fi chillwave. u kno

books: any gripping story with aggressively self-aware characters.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

watching a low-flying plane drop glitter confetti over a a temple festival in south India.

Teach, Learn, Share

i'll teach ya how to make yogurt! im also a bicycle mechanic so I can probably tune up your ride. also, hot gardening tips, friendship bracelet making, prison pen-pal facilitation, israeli folkdancing..

things i want to learn more about: weight lifting, how to start a fire, who wants to teach me portuguese?

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Dominica, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ecuador, Spain, United States