ABOUT ME

Full of life, I always love great conversation. My life has been pretty wonderful the past 7 years, full of traveling and passions. I am a grateful house guest; always willing to cook and clean up after myself. I love to know a location from a local’s prospective and interested in different life views. Open minded, the best compliment I have ever received is that people feel as though they can really be themselves around me, that they feel that I accept them and don't pass judgment.

PHILOSOPHY

Mediocrity is not an option.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I hope to pay back some good karma that I have received in my travels.

Interests

My current goals orbit around the desire to learn as much as possible. I attepmt this much of the time through traveling and living as much as possible from different prospectives. My life is full of passions from dancing, climbing, drawing, writing, philosophy, martial arts, the sciences..it goes on. I am a zoologist by education and trade.

• arts
• writing
• dancing
• education
• cooking
• traveling
• drawing
• martial arts
• rock climbing
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Anything from classical, to metal and soul.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Earlier...
My traveling really started when I studied in Melbourne Australia. Living on my own since age 17 I never had much cash but big goals. I managed to get enough scholarships and grants along with part time jobs to make my way through University debt free!! But to get to Australia was going to take a bit more. No one was hiring in Michigan so I put my school on pause for a semester, Packed up my van and a friend and headed south. We went to Florida for a seasonal job offer. Just outside of Tampa we lived out of our van and a tent for 4 months while I held three jobs often time working the three in a row on the weekend not getting sleep for more than 36 hours at a time. We spent next to nothing and were homeless but I saved enough to get to Australia and started this beautiful chaos that has been my life ever since. It showed me that if you have the drive and desire to do something you won't allow anything to stand in your way. I spent the next year in OZ studying marsupials, doing studies with eastern grey kangaroos and tamar wallabies among others. I learned even more in my share house of 16 , filled with people from all over the world who have been seemingly everywhere. And they inspired me to seek even more. So I let my ticket home burn and bought a $109 ticket to Singapore and began to work my way across South East Asia. Which gave way to many more lessons...

Countries I’ve Visited

Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, France, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Mexico, United States