CURRENT MISSION

to rock n roll. alllll night long.

ABOUT ME

I grew up on a farm in central Illinois, went to liberal arts school up in the Chicago burbs, and then spent 2 years living and working for a couple radio stations (Q101 and The Loop) in Chicago. My boyfriend and I bailed on the windy city in 2009, spent 2 months volunteering in Peru and Brazil and rolled into California where we currently reside in Hollywood.

I like biking, walking, reading, kitties, climbing things, dance parties, iced coffee, ice cream, great tunes, red wine, meeting new people, seeing new things, traveling the world and much much more! I'm down to try anything, so if you come visit and there's something you want to do, let's find it and check it out!

I am passionate about community. I love group outings, group dinners open to anyone around and bored, and I'm pretty spontaneous. I feel that if there's an opportunity, you might as well take it!

PHILOSOPHY

Find something you like and let it kill you.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Currently, I'm only available for coffee or a drink. Please don't make me feel bad about this! My bf and I both have crazy work schedules and we never really know if we'll be around.

I believe in Karma- and I know I'm going to need some couches for the next adventure. I'll try to do my part until then. ;)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I couch surfed in Vienna, Austria and Paris, France and had fantastic experiences and then rocked Memphis, Tennessee and Austin, Texas couch-surfing again.........and have hosted couchsurfers from Vienna, Memphis, Hawaii, and Paris.

I couch surfed mostly with my brother and made some life-long friends, ate amazing food, and had such a great time doing things we never would have gotten to otherwise.

Interests

I'm easily infatuated. I like small things, soft things, large spaces, rock-n-roll, people with impressive hair, climbing, rooftops, good books, collages, sunshine, dive bars, free things, big cats.....

• cats
• arts
• books
• dancing
• dining
• wine
• red wine
• coffee
• walking
• partying
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• cycling
• surfing
• rock climbing
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Wayne's World, X-Men, Requiem for a Dream, David Sedaris, Don't Mess with the Zohan, The Mars Volta, classic rock, Metallica, Stevie Wonder, Of Montreal, great songs to dance to, Kerouac, Shadow of the Wind, all of those fantastic Harry Potter books......

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I got scrubbed down by large Arabic women that I couldn't understand but completely adored in a Moroccan bathhouse in Casablanca. I've stood in front of La Sagrada Familia (Barcelona) by myself at 4am with no one else around. I've hung out with spider monkeys in Palanque and river-rafted with a crew of conservation scientists through a jaguar preserve in northern Mexico and I helped raise an endangered baby sloth in the Amazon Rain Forest. (I've been lucky.)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Peru, Spain, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Spain, United States

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