Briefly: I'm born and raised/educated in Canada, living in old Lisbon, speaking Portuguese, working as an aspiring brewer (of beer), finally resigned to loving city living.

My travel philosophy: travel to a specific place for a specific purpose, like visiting friends, researching a project, learning something relevant to your life/work/activism/spirituality. Just being a tourist is not enough, and it cheapens the place you visit, turning it into an amusement park. Be conscientious of yourself in a place; I try to do the same.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Because traveling is more fun when you're visiting someone. Because you can learn a lot more about the place staying with someone who lives there. Because I want to be part of a mutually-supporting community rather than capitalist consumerism.

Interests

Interested in seeing: housing squats, museums, small art galleries, hills and forests, independent business collectives, food production, crumbling architecture, beaches, experiments in radical living, dance parties.

Also interested in: feminism, queer -ism?,anarchism, non-state communism, justice for migrants/immigrants/non-privileged.

• arts
• architecture
• dancing
• womens rights
• dining
• beer
• partying
• traveling
• homesteading
• business
• beaches
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Recommended fiction: The Golden Compass trilogy, the Red Mars trilogy, The Diamond Age, A Million Little Pieces, A Fine Balance, Feminism is for Everybody (non-fiction).

What I Can Share with Hosts

Important: please give me between several days and 2 weeks REQUEST NOTICE if you'd like to stay with us. No less than a couple days, because then I don't have time to ask the roommates; no more than a couple weeks, because we won't know what we're doing or what family members might visit weeks in advance.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada