CURRENT MISSION

to travel the Transiberian to China

ABOUT ME

(bullet point edition)
-American
-lived in Russia, Latvia, Austria, and France
-will eat anything!
-yogi
-love to hike, sauna, swim and play music!

I'd love to share stories when we meet over coffee, local food, or a glass of wine.

PHILOSOPHY

if you're scared to do something, do it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have stayed with hosts in France, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany, Austria, Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Belgium and Netherlands.

Interests

playing music, writing poetry, collecting books, watching films, running and cycling places, cooking food, drinking alcohol of all kinds, hiking in nature, exploring urban areas, and reading horoscopes.

• writing
• books
• poetry
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• coffee
• yoga
• marathon
• running
• drinking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• hiking
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

A Few Favorites…

Movies: Deathproof, Melancholia, Annie Hall, Let the Right One In, Frances Ha, Kicking and Screaming, Breathless, Fargo, Before Sunrise, Trois Couleurs:Bleu, Manhattan, Noah and the Whale, Kill Bill 1&2, Pan's Labyrinth, Let Me Go, Dear Wendy, Thelma and Louise, Interiors.

Music: St.Vincent, Angel Olsen, Warpaint, Feist, the Shangri-las, Grimes, Belle and Sebastian, the Smiths, Francoise Hardy, Camera Obscura, Sufjan Stevens, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Lemolo, La Luz, Fleet Foxes, Laura Marling, Joanna Newsom, the Beatles, Neil Young, Kurt Vile, The Tallest Man on Earth.

Books: War and Peace, the Bell Jar, the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Franny and Zooey, the Marriage Plot, One Hundred Years of Solitude, East of Eden, Mrs. Dalloway, The End of The Affair, Jane Eyre, Good Morning, Midnight, Cathedral, Leaves of Grass, Ariel, the Age of Innocence, Lolita.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Biking 1000km along the Danube through Austria and Germany!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you to curse in Russian or French, play some chords on a guitar, do a stick-n-poke tattoo, or make a pretty decent dinner.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Russian Federation, United States

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