Hiya! My we’re Rhody and Nikita, two open-minded, driven, and adventurous folks, looking to meet other folks - both on their travels and ours. We’re both artists who speak English, French, Russian, and Spanish, and live to feed folks dank vegan food and play board games.
✨Nikita is a writer, musician, and visual artist who works from home doing all those things after having taught ESL for over 6 years. In her free time, she reads, karaokes, oil paints, bakes, takes film photos, and experiences life with the awe of a tourist, even when at home base.

✨A former ESL teacher as well, Rhody is a composer of contemporary classical music and music for film, TV, and games. When he's not writing new music or teaching cello/guitar to students, he's making his own music, playing basketball, whipping up something delicious in the kitchen like homemade cashew cheese or kombucha, or making someone laugh.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

We're travelers in our hearts and love to meet others on that dusty trail. As hosts, we love to give people a cozy experience where they can feel very welcome and held during the wildness that is travel. As guests, we are hoping to really engage with others - foster that sweet sweet connection - and make friends all around the dang world.

Interests

• writing
• poetry
• dancing
• coffee
• vegan
• happy hour
• gardening
• trivia
• board games
• music
• karaoke
• art
• lgbt
• social justice
• biking
• museums
• esl
• improv
• cello
• español
• russian
• vegan cooking
• spanish
• walking around
• fiction
• coffee shops
• bookstores
• русский язык

Music, Movies, and Books

This is a hard question! A few favorite authors include Tom Robbins, Jacqueline Carey, Patricia Highsmith, James Baldwin, and Ursula LeGuin. As far as movies go, we both love just about anything besides cruel/sexist/homophobic/racist comedy :).
Musicially, we listen to a lot of things. Some old faithfuls include Janelle Monae, Childish Gambino, Future Islands, The Books, L’Imperatrice, Yann Tiersen, Kali Uchis, Lizzo, Cocorosie, Shannon and the Clams, Black Moth Super Rainbow, doowop, and good film scores.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Living in beat-up vans and our old camper, Doug! We were no fancy Sprinter kids; being grungy hippies who worked their way from farm to farm was the privilege of our early twenties, for sure.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: We both worked with ESL from 2012 to 2018 and would love to share English tips with any language-learning hosts and guests. Rhody is also a skilled cello, guitar, and ukulele teacher who's always eager to share his musical know-how. Some other things one or both of us love to show others are vegan cooking, condiment-making, deodorant-making, bread baking, and board games.

Learn: We love languages. We're both always looking to improve our French, Russian and Spanish. As artists and musicians, it's a gift to learn something new from fellow artists, too. Also, any pro gardeners or master chefs out there that want to teach something... yes please!

Share: Food! Games! Friendship! A stellar cup of coffee! Wine! Share with us your favorite gems of your town, and we’ll do our best to treat them with joy.

What I Can Share with Hosts

We both love to share a sense of humor, flexibility, some solid dinners, a coffee, board game time, and ESL tips.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, England, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Russian Federation, United States