CURRENT MISSION

to change the world!!! one smile at a time (:

ABOUT ME

Currently I'm freelance writing and working on personal creative projects, one of which includes a North American Road trip westward via US Route 20. I'll be heading/making detours to Chicago, Detroit, Madison, and on to Portland, then down to Santa Cruz. Looking for good spots to check out along the way, and fine folks to say hello to!

I hail from Oahu, Hawaii, and have spent half my life there, and most of the other half in the Hudson Valley of NY and NYC. I've also lived in Virginia's Blue Ridge, where I worked on a farm/honeybee sanctuary.

PHILOSOPHY

"There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world - its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. If an activity is not grounded in 'to love' or 'to learn,' it does not have value."

Caminante, son tus huellas
el camino y nada más;
Caminante, no hay camino,
se hace camino al andar.
Al andar se hace el camino,
y al volver la vista atrás
se ve la senda que nunca
se ha de volver a pisar.
Caminante no hay camino
sino estelas en la mar
(Antonio Machado)

"Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'd like to couchsurf, at the moment cannot host. But someday soon (:

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I consider myself a master couchsurfer, though I've never surfed via this site, only through friends-of-friends, etc (: When I was traveling through Belgium, I ended up sharing the road with a couple of deeply lovely Couchsurfers - my happy experiences with them have colored my affection for couchsurfers since

Interests

writing, thinking, eating, laughing, reading, wandering

• writing
• beauty
• reading
• traveling
• freelancing

Music, Movies, and Books

i have a fairly voracious media appetite - I'll happily let you know what I'm reading and listening to when I see ya (:

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

too countless to be named. gratitude = everything!

Teach, Learn, Share

In traveling I believe the best thing you can do is to look at life with the intelligence of an adult, but curiosity of a child--to be smart, respectful, thankful, and to know yourself, but to never lose an endless sense of wonderment of the world, and be receptive to learning all that you possibly can.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Belgium, Canada, France, French Polynesia, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States