We are the red beard and dready on the right in our profile pic, which we share with our people, Paice and Dusty, on the left.

CURRENT MISSION:
1. to raise our kids in the woods near the sea to be people we enjoy hanging out with: decent, generous, kind & compassionate.
2. to haul in that 150 pound HaliBut that got away...

ABOUT ME

ryan: expat from stillwater minnesota. found his soul in southeast alaska 15 years ago. morning person. loves hockey, kayaking, hiking. skinny-dips in our glacier-cold water. loves healthy food. dances like a maniac in the livingroom when vanessa isn't looking. stays humble, hustles hard.
vanessa: can't dance. loves baths. reads a lot. got ryan addicted to Reeses candybars. laughs at herself often. can't cook but tries! loves a good long walk. digs that she lives in the town where she was born.
US:
we use every single dish we own when we have friends over for dinner
we have dance parties in our kitchen at night with our kids during the dark months.
we live off of moose we hunt in our woods and salmon catch in our rivers.
we love living in a tight knit community; pretty blessed to have some super great folks around us.
we're generally low-key but usually up for an adventure.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

we like humans!

Interests

• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• cars
• hiking
• kayaking
• hockey

Music, Movies, and Books

we don't own a tv.
but we check out bizarre documentaries from the library!

vanessa reads: Weisel, Steinbeck, Lamott, DJDuncan, Buechner, Kierkagaard, Kingsolver, Endo, Robinson, Irving, Cather, Hosseini, Potok, Gruen, Burroughs, Rilke, Dillard, Lee, Woolf, Walker, McCarthy, Frey, Hemingway, Zusak, Gibran,Gilbert, Rumi, McEwan, Sexton, Rich, Hogan,Bishop, Plath, and any Moon Guidebook.

ryan likes: hip-hop and how-to books. Yep.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Belize, Cambodia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Switzerland, United States

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