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Bethlehem, Georgia, United States
@shawn-whitehouse
Member since 2025
My husband, Tom, & I are retired. We have 2 young adult daughters. We live on a 14 acre mini-farm. I love horseback riding & camping. I have 3 🐴. Tom loves flying and taking us places in our small plane, mostly domestic USA. We also love pets, we have 3 cats & one Doodle dog. We’ve had 7 HS exchange students over the years. Two came for 1 semester (5 months), the rest came for 2 semesters (a full school year, 10 months). The students that stayed 2 semesters had their families come to visit for 2 weeks in the Spring. We’ve visited most of them and their families in their home countries. We occasionally foster dogs. We home sit through Trusted Homesitters. We love doing things with friends & making new friends.
Interested in Adventure Sports
Interested in Equestrian Sports
Interested in Traveling
Fluent in English
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
We LOVE to travel & make new friends!
Music, Movies, and Books
Our favorite music is pop, jazz & rock. We actually enjoy many kinds of music, although we don’t care for rap or opera (probably character flaws 😆). My favorite movie is an oldie; Young Frankenstein. I love to read mostly fantasy & sci-fi but I don’t have a favorite book. Tom likes sci-fi and books on his interests.
One Amazing Thing I've Done
Hard to pick just 1 amazing thing we’ve done ….. Maybe scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
Teach, Learn, Share
Although we’re not instructors, I often take new riders horseback riding and my husband takes people flying. Before retiring: I was an Import Manager for children’s products & special needs. I was also a Purchasing Manager for steel, pipe, valves, fittings & plumbing products. Also helped with sales in those products. My husband, Tom, was an electronics engineer & manager. He has a technical mind, is good at trouble shooting & fixing all kinds of things. Tom makes beer.
What I Can Share With Hosts
Tom makes good signature dishes and I make good signature desserts! Good conversations on many topics.