CURRENT MISSION

Find the right balance between work and play....need a lower maintenance house/garden

ABOUT ME

#10 of 14 kids...so like a crowd and enjoy people dropping in and hanging out on my couch. I have a minifarm in my yard with fruit trees and vegetables and there's something to browse on all year round.

PHILOSOPHY

Make sure you take advantage of any breaks in the your education/professional life to take a really really long vacation. My longest travel vacation.....7 months. Hope to make another longer one sometime before I get too old.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Haven't done any couch surfing yet, but hope to in the future! I have hosted a lot

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Spent some time in college traveling in Latin America and did minor couch surfing there. Had some couch surfers stay at my house and now one of them is my daughter's husband.

Interests

nature, travel, hiking, people, animals, scrabble, cooking, gardening

• animals
• education
• cooking
• gardening
• traveling
• music
• piano
• hiking
• surfing
• biology
• teaching
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

independent films, cookbooks, nature books, philosophy, music of most sorts but not rap, country, heavy metal or bad reggae. Play classical piano

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The trail to macchu picchu without a guide in 1978. The last day of the 5-day hike we had to cross a gorge on a tiny ledge about 1 foot wide (30cm) with full backpacks and a sheer cliff above and below. It was the hardest and scariest thing I have ever done.

Teach, Learn, Share

Can teach English, Biology, life lessons, how to make nice jellies and jams to preserve, how to garden, make a compost, hang a spoon from your nose, make a sound like drippy water by tapping on your cheek, hand ocarina music, beginning piano

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Costa Rica, Ecuador, England, France, Greece, Guatemala, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Greece, United States

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