The story of us... we (Sarah-Maude and Braydon) met in a wigwam in Quebec during a winter Rainbow gathering, and started to weave a story together from those humble beginnings in the forest. Our lives are mutually connected to nature, artistry, teaching, off-grid lifestyles, wanderlust, and the creative spirit. We both live in harmony with the natural world, and our spirits are dedicated to manifesting love, abundance, goodness, and inspiration in the world.

In the winter of 2025, we are setting our traveling dreams on the Asian continent and Oceania to experience more of this exotic world. We desire to seek unique experiences, with a sustainable traveling ethos that forgets the tourist traps and destructive practices of luxury vacationing, but instead embraces the sacred offerings of local culture, tribal affairs, perma-culture, animal welfare, and ecological communities.

Sarah-Maude works with family/child services and is also talented with gardening, various art styles like pyrography, drawing, painting, yoga, and silk dance. She traveled and lived in Ecuador in her teenage years for an exchange student program through the Rotary club, and has lived on a sailboat with her family in her younger years with her parents, including cross Canada camping and road-tripping.

Braydon creates one of a kind journalism from his travel experiences, and is a gifted storyteller, bushcrafter, yogi, forester, and homesteader. He is a cultural ambassador, and builder of bio-structures, with a motivation for animal protection and ecological conservation. Also a Viking at heart, and proud of his heritage.

Together we live off-grid in an intentional forest community in New Brunswick, and teach at a nature school. We are dreaming to travel together in Oceania and experiencing wild Tasmania, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia and Japan, and maybe looking for a travel buddy to meet-up with during those trips. Meanwhile we have intentions to stay as in house teachers with nature schools in the countries we travel.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To make a thousand new friends, and build a diversity of relationships around the world, to discover our differences that make us unique and the golden threads that make us the same.

Interests

• dogs
• singing
• dancing
• cooking
• potluck
• gardening
• board games
• blogging
• drawing
• bouldering
• hiking
• snorkeling
• sailing
• snowshoeing
• rock climbing
• road trips
• historic sites
• permaculture
• bushcraft
• foodie
• motorcycling
• bonfires
• tribes
• foraging
• world travel
• wood carving
• pyrography
• fiber arts

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Braydon: Traveled up the Amazonian rivers for ten days by cargo boat.
Sarah-Maude : Lived on a sail boat with my family for a year. Down the east coast of the united states and to the Bahamas for 4-5 months. Many great adventures there like discovering caves full of bats, snorkelling with some friendly sharks, in a ruined plane and with so many beautiful fishies, etc.
Also ziplined across a valley in the Ecuadorian amazone when I lived there for a year.

Teach, Learn, Share

We teach kids from ages 4-14 at the Art and Nature School in our village. Cultural practices, ancient traditions, arts and crafts, kitchen skills, geography, song and dance, bushcraft and wilderness survival, herbalism...

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, England, Faroe Islands, France, Guatemala, Iceland, India, Ireland, Mexico, Morocco, Norway, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin (French part), Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Ecuador, England, Iceland, Scotland, United States, Wales