CURRENT MISSION

Currently exploring European culture and cuisine in your area!

ABOUT ME

Hello Hosts!

My name is Rubina and I am from America currently exploring Europe for the first with my best friend Brandi. I am the artist and she is the chef. We are currently in Italy until the 27th of September. After this our next two months will be exploring Europe looking for the best local cuisine and galleries.

We are splitting our time between couch surfing and AirBnB.

Depending on the atmosphere of your place, we can accommodate.
We are very social and love meeting new people. We want to know the areas we are visiting from a locals perspective, which is not easy when you don't know locals. If we are reaching out it is because we want your inside knowledge to your city. However, we also understand that sometimes we are all busy and in this case we can keep to ourselves. Most if the time we will be out exploring, unless we are at your home cooking you dinner ;)

If there is a language barrier we will do our best to study the language before arriving. Our goal is to know:
Thank you
Excuse me
When
Where
How much
Cold coffee
Toilet

We are using wifi so there may be a delay in our reply.

Thank you so much in advance!
Grazie.

Rubina and Brandi

PHILOSOPHY

I have a grey view of the world and am always looking for new light. The world is small and I love making it smaller the more I connect with others.
Brandi would say, there is something we can learn from everyone, "I live my life to gain experience and knowledge and to bring joy to people through cooking."
She has brought me a world of joy.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We travel the world and make friends everywhere we go. If you ever need to connect in America, we will find a way to connect you.
Between us we have friends in:
California
Oregon
Washington
Wyoming
Minnesota
Texas
Wisconsin
Oklahoma
Maryland
Florida
Massachusetts
New York
We can also cook you dinner!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Rubina:
Most of my travels is visiting friends around America. I recently stayed in seven states at seven different friends homes on a 20 day train tour. I have been hosted through the site only a few times with friends. I introduced my mother to the site years ago and she has hosted and been hosted probably 100 + times.
Brandi has never couch surfed but is excited to try. I brought her along to cook us all food.

Interests

Between Brandi and I our common bond is over food.
good food: growing it, cooking it, fermenting it, eating it.
We love:
great people
sharing stories
art: making, collecting, viewing, getting it tattooed
a strong cocktail, but more so coffee, coffee, coffee, coffee.
TRAVELING THE WORLD

• arts
• culture
• dining
• cooking
• cocktails
• coffee
• yoga
• gardening
• traveling
• surfing
• boxing

Music, Movies, and Books

The first movie that we saw together was, the man who wasn't there.
We also enjoy films by Wes Anderson, Hitchcock, Mike Nichols, Kurosawa, Fellini, Tr

We love Azealia Banks to Lil'Wayne to Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

I personally love to string pedals together with a microphone and a looper to make noise... but that's another story.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The most amazing thing we are doing is seeing Europe for the first time. Brandi and I have been friends for so long and talking about this adventure since we met. After the next three months we expect to fill box up with experiences possibly involving you ;)

Teach, Learn, Share

Things we can offer and would eagerly join in on:
great conversation
gardening
cooking
fermenting
crafting

Things we would like to learn:
local language
your favorite restaurants or authentic dish
yoga

Countries I’ve Visited

United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States