CURRENT MISSION

discovery on Hawaiian Islands from Kauai onward & then the world

ABOUT ME

I'm a great-outdoors lover, scuba diver, hiker & climber, athletic, photography, arts & music festials emcee, samba dancer, deep thinker, good listener, travel tales, journeys of sacred pilgrimage. Loves diversity & multi-cultural immersion. Fun-loving & playful, easy going & loves a good joke & laughter; spiritually curious to explore ritual.

PHILOSOPHY

I view travel & discovery as a Sacred Pilgrimage to personal transformation & an education in LIFE.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Sacred Bridger, collaberator in arts & musical festivals throughout California & great beyond. I'm a trained acilitator of the Pachamama Alliance's "AwakeningtheDreamer.Org" symposium on worldwide sustainability, social justice & spirituality; emcee in world's largest bellydance festival (Rakassah) as well as at burning man & decompression, samba dancer with the SF Carnaval parade.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Only beginning to use the service, but I used to host intern'l travelers in SF area from all over Europe, So.America, and the states seasonally. Traveled & stayed in guest houses internationally in the Caribbean, Belize, Australia (Cannes & Sydney), England & Italy; Central American backpacking & treehouse hostels making new int'l friends.

Interests

Travel to different cultural settings, seeing antiquities and ancient ruins, learning about other peoples' cultures, meeting interesting folks from all around the globe. Lands visited include pyramids in Egypt, diving Belize & Australia's Great Barrier Reef, Mayan ruins by Guatamala, Angkor Wat Cambodia, ruins of Greek isles and the Roman Forum, Macchu Pichu Peru, Stonehenge, Mesa Verde & beyond ...

• arts
• photography
• festivals
• dancing
• education
• traveling
• bouldering
• music
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• scuba diving
• rock climbing
• teaching
• cultural immersion
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Game of Thrones, House of Cards, CHUCK (the series); Indiana Jones flicks, Loreena mcKennitt live, Alison Krauss, Wynton Marsalis, Chris Botti, Dan Brown novels, Michael Franti, Hamsa Lila, the Star Wars series, Tina Malia, the Yard Dogs Road Show,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Exotic international travel to spiritual sights: Mayan temples of the Yucatán Mexico, Macchu Pichu & Lake Titicaca in Peru, Costa Rica, Guatamala's Lago di Atitlan and Antigua, Sardinia, Amalfi & Capri in Italia, the great temples at Luxor & Karnak and Giza
Pyramids in Egypt, Temple of Poseiden & Acropolis in Greece, Roman ruins, Angkor Wat Cambodia, temples in Thailand, climbing Mayan ruins atop Belize mountains & diving the Great Barrier Reef. Hiking along the Na Pali coast in wild Kauai, bouldering & climbing to remote waterfalls pools. Two treks thru the inside passage of Alaska to walk on glaciers. Ten years of burning man greeting at Black Rock City playa!

Teach, Learn, Share

www.awakeningthedreamer.org

Countries I’ve Visited

Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cambodia, Canada, Costa Rica, Egypt, El Salvador, England, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia, Italy, Jamaica, Laos, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States