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Overview

  • 3 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Spanish
  • 36, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • Speech Language Pathologist
  • MS in Speech Language Pathology
  • From Denver, CO, USA
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

I've traveled as much as I've been able to in my 20s and have no plans to stop. My favorite places include Ecuador, Israel, Ireland, Italy, the California coast and the pacific northwest. I want to see, experience, smell, taste, and touch everything this beautiful world and its people have to offer. I love meeting people and hearing their stories. Can't wait to meet you!

ABOUT ME

I started traveling when I was a wee little tot. I've been going ever since. From family trips all over the states, to my own treks into Central America and Europe. I've just begun my career as a speech language pathologist and my partner works to making biking safer and more accessible to all in Denver. We have hopes of
living simply and minimally, building and traveling with a tiny home at some point in the future!

PHILOSOPHY
I appreciate every day I have being a healthy, young, free person and do my best to make the world more beautiful and positive each day.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

CouchSurfing is one of the best organizations I've ever been involved with. My friend and I drove from Florida to Maine years ago and couch surfed over half the time. At one point, we stayed on a sailboat overlooking the New York skyline and the Statue of Liberty! It was truly an incredible trip and I've been talking about it ever since. Everyone is overwhelmingly kind and welcoming. Truly a traveler's network.

Interests

Biking, hiking, laughing...just overall enjoying life. Lakes in the summer. I'm a big coffee shop journal writer. I love people watching. I'm a go-with-the-flow-we'll-figure-it-out kind of gal. I've had enough experiences to teach me that the plan will never go as planned, so why stress over it! Its turning out to be a great philosophy. I love to love. I think that's a great thing and we should all have more of it.

  • writing
  • coffee
  • running
  • shopping
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • lakes

Music, Movies, and Books

I love anything up-beat and filled with a good message and some genuine heart.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My partner and I recently took 2 months off of work and drove from denver to Utah, up the Cali coast to Oregon and Washington, over through Glacier NP in Montana and back down through Yellowstone to Denver. It was an incredible privilege to live so freely.

Teach, Learn, Share

Life is too short to stress about the small stuff.
This changed my life once I learned to embrace it.

Conserve. You dont need a shower/to wash your towels/to run the water so much. Feel lucky, our water comes out of a tap, and is potable. Appreciation is half of happiness. Know, accept, and embrace where you are/who you are. It may not be changing around you, but you can change your experience.

Countries I’ve Visited

Costa Rica, Ecuador, England, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Netherlands, Panama, Peru, Spain, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, United States

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