CURRENT MISSION

I'm going where the water tastes like wine, jump in the water, stay drunk all the time

ABOUT ME

I just moved to Durham, North Carolina. I currently working as a landscape architect for Alta Planning and Design, a bike and pedestrian planning and design firm. I would consider myself an environmental advocate. I enjoy volunteering and doing work outside with my hands. I like cats and hope to one day be the most famous cat-lady. I have this lifelong desire and quest to create hidden wonderlands, not for profit but for beauty and wonderment.

PHILOSOPHY

The world is your playground.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have hosted a number of people in Illinois. I have couch surfed all over Europe and I have made friends through couch surfing in Sao Tome, a small country in Africa, while I lived there.

Interests

I love music.

I also love to race on my bike, learn new dances, and explore abandoned buildings.

Love whiskey and good beer, used to love drinking franzia straight out of the bag, but that way of drinking can only last so long.

• cats
• architecture
• beauty
• environment
• wine
• beer
• working out
• drinking
• music
• cycling
• surfing
• software
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Joni Mitchel Emmylou Harris The Beatles Van Morrison Bill Withers Al Green Iron & Wine Liz Phair Smashing Pumpkins The Smiths PIXIES Pavement Sebadoah Sonic Youth The Afghan Whigs Talking Heads R.E.M. Arcade Fire Animal Collective Beck Belle & Sebastian Built to Spill Camera Obscura Cat Empire Chairlift Damien Rice Decemberists Elliot Smith Flaming Lips Fleet Foxes Friendly Fires Islands The Kooks Kings Of Leon Modest Mouse Neko Case Pete Yorn Peter Bjorn and John PJ Harvey Raconteurs Radiohead Ryan Adams Spoon The Strokes Tough Shits Travis Vampire Weekend White Stripes Ween Wilco Yo La Tengo

Brazil, Vertigo, Revolutionary Road, Requiem for a dream,Trainspotting, Departed, Fight Club, Crash,Monster, When Harry Met Sally,The Godfather,Seven,2001: A Space Odyssey, Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, American Beauty, , Buffalo 66, Garden State, Clockwork Orange, Airplane!, Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail, Borat, Caddyshack, Ground Hogs Day, Burn After Reading, Duck Soup, Texas Chainsaw massecre, The Shining, Silence Of The Lambs, 28 Days Later

David Foster Wallace, Margaret Atwood, Kurt Vonnegut, Chuck Palahnuik, Haruki Murakami, Herman Hesse

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lived in Africa for 7 months, backpacked across Europe for 2 months solo

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm a landscape Architect so i know some things about the environment and plants, and computer software programs.

I can teach you how to make a fool of yourself.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Sao Tome and Principe, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Sao Tome and Principe, United States