CURRENT MISSION

Dance across an ocean, swim over a mountain

ABOUT ME

I am a habitual wanderer and I am excellent at making friends. I talk about music and energy-flows constantly. I do not wear heels for anyone. I never travel without my trusty ukulele, Boris.

PHILOSOPHY

always be nice. everything is light. you're exactly where you need to be.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Like a cowbell in a Latin-fusion-bluegrass funk band

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I come from a surf-friendly family, many of my "aunts" and "uncles" are some of the CSers my parents hosted and became best friends with. I am new to this site, but have plenty of experience road tripping and crashing with friends of friends of friends in the USA, though little formal surfing experience. All of the surfers I've met and hosted through this website, however have been amazing.

Interests

Philosophy, food, world music, antique shops, theoretical physics, volcanoes, shamanism, red wine, dark beer, kale smoothies, picking flowers, volunteering, human rights, playing fetch with stray dogs, all forms of theater..

• dogs
• theater
• dancing
• human rights
• dining
• wine
• red wine
• beer
• flowers
• traveling
• music
• world music
• surfing
• swimming
• physics
• volunteering
• rivers
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

currently reading: Ishmael, every Allen Ginsberg or Rumi poem I can find, catch 22, Gravity's Rainbow (very slowly)

Currently listening to obsessively : Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Little Dragon, Fleet Foxes, Dumpstaphunk, Umphrees McGee, String Cheese Incident, the list goes on...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I spent two weeks in the Amazon jungle last year, volunteering with an indigenous group in Ecuador (the Shuar), and spent all my time doing hard physical labor, trying to help build a spiritual retreat center for the tribe on higher ground (the recent damming of the rivers is flooding much of their land). While there, after a hard day of dragging lumber through muddy mountains, I climbed halfway up an active volcano and watched a storm roll in. Had a whole conversation with the wind.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Ecuador, France, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States