CURRENT MISSION

Relevant Life Experiences

ABOUT ME

I am... a fun girl with a lust for life, an artist, very shy, an adventurer, a lover of animals and children, playful, a child at heart, a night owl, a morning person, a coffee lover, a wine snob, a traveler, idealistic, a photographer, sometimes awkward, spontaneous, friendlly...

visited 44 states (88%)Create your own visited map of The United States

PHILOSOPHY

Still figuring this one out, but living and learning and loving.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I want to participate however I can, host/be hosted travel and love life!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Love to host people in Oxford! also plan to test my wings the next time I get a chance

Interests

Art, Music, Travels, People, and all relevant life experiences.

• animals
• arts
• wine
• coffee
• traveling
• music
• adventure races

Music, Movies, and Books

Musical:
Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, Antsy Pants, Aphex Twin, Athlete, Avett Brothers, Band of Horses, BassNectar, Bat for Lashes, The Beatles, Bettie Serveert, Blonde Redhead, Bon Iver, Bow Wow Wow, Brand New, Bright Eyes, Built Like Alaska, Cake, Cold Cave, Copper, Danielson, Delta Spirit, Eisley, Enigma, Fanfarlo, Fleet Foxes, girltalk, Gomez, Grizzly Bear, HOLY FUCK, Holy Ghost Tent Revival, Jack’s Mannequin, Jeff and Vida Band, Jim Croce, Jimbo Whaley, Kevin Devine, Kimya Dawson, Lane Shuler, Local Natives, Lotus, Lydia, Lykke Li, MC Lars, Memory Tapes, Mike Doughty, Moldy Peaches, Morrissey, The Mumlers, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nickel Creek, Nudist Buddhists, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Passion Pit, Paul White, Peter Bjorn and John, Placebo, Psalters, Psapp, Ra Ra Riot, Real Estate, Rocky Votolato, Serena Ryder, She Wants Revenge, Small Sins, Small 23, Sufjan Stevens, Susanne Vega, Thievery Corporation, Vampire Weekend, The Weepies, The Wells Family, White Rabbit

Literary: Currently reading Oil! by Upton Sinclair (There will be blood was a great movie, and I NORMALLY read the book a movie is based on first, but I am taking a walk on the wild side...)

some of my favorites include: Mark Z. Danielewski (House of Leaves and Only Revolutions), Italo Calvino (The Baron in the Trees, If on a Winters Night a Traveler, and Invisible Cities) Herman Hesse, Sylvia Plath (May I recommend her journals), deep love Ayn Rand (favorite by far is 'We The Living', her closest to an autobiography), Barbara Kingsolver, Hemmingway, Henry David Thoreau's Walden, Shane Claiborne, Thomas Merton (love no man is an island) Eve Bunting's Jumping the Nail (find it in the teen fiction section of your local bookstore, been on my list of favorites for years) William Faulkner (A Rose for Emily is my favorite short story of all time), Mark Hadden's Curious Incident of a Dog in the Nighttime, and similarly The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, Hemmingway, Chinua Achebe's Things fall Apart, J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, The Holy Book, Oswald Chamber's my Utmost For His Highest, James Joyce (Just finished Portrait of an Artist as a Young man, I own a copy of Ulysses, but trying to gather the courage to tackle a huge book about one day :)) etc etc etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have driven across the US at least 4 times west-east or east-west. I have peed on both continental divides, driven alone at least 18 hours without stopping (for more than gas/snacks/bathroom), made friends at all corners of this fair country and from all over the globe, I have just never left the US, this needs to change.