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Highland Park, Michigan, United States
@nik
Member since 2010
Please note: I travel a lot for work and fun, so I can't often hang out as a host, but I love to offer you a clean comfortable place. I'm a fit for people who are clear and reliable, since I have to make arrangements for you to stay at my house -- arrivals only before 8pm please no late nights. I'm a sailor, an artist, a meditator, and a radical leftist. I'm mostly sober. I'm also a "professional" property manager. I've also been hosting travelers for about 15 years on various alt platforms and through word of mouth. Now I'm traveling a lot again myself, as well! I love meditation, yoga, sauna, nature, hiking, walks, reading, cooking, eating, adventure, sleep -- early to bed early to rise. I'm clean, considerate, and have traveled all over the world (25+ countries, and 25+ states). I've taught yoga and lived at an off-grid remote Hawaiian spiritual center, in Bedouin tents in the Jordan desert, done mutual aid grassroots food reclamation and redistribution, backpacked hot pots in Iceland, and lived aboard in a sailboat for 7 months... just to name a few cool adventures.
Interested in Cooking
Interested in Dining out
Fluent in English
Learning Arabic (North Levantine)
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
I've spent the last few years reconnecting with traveling long term, often 3 months or more in each location... I like to offer space in my historic home to fellow travelers. Also looking for cool opportunities to meet and stay with new folks.
Music, Movies, and Books
Dispossessed (Leguin), Walkaways (Doctrow), Female Nomad (Rita Golden-Gelman), anything by Cheri Huber (Buddhist stuff). I watch good epic dramas and costume dramas -- currently loving the Gilded Age.
One Amazing Thing I've Done
horseback riding full out on a white sand beach in Thailand
What I Can Share With Hosts
I can cook a meal or clean your bathroom, sit your house long term, or help out with your garden. I'm a professional yoga teacher and also a professional retreat facilitator -- if you want to do a two hour explosive visioning session together to manifest some dreams for our lives this coming year that could be powerful!
My Interests
art and architecture thrifting dumpster diving sailing/liveaboard cooking food canoe/kayaking camping hiking yoga (RYT) road trips, travel, new places sauna/spa/massage sweat lodge historic buildings, historic homes, history