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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
nowhere to go but all over the place!
ABOUT ME
we're playful and fun loving people who love to laugh. we really enjoy meeting new people and traveling to new places. we hope to meet you soon.
PHILOSOPHY
"We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other."
-Hemingway
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
we've hosted in our past lives in DC and look forward to hosting again once we get settled in our new home in Oakland, CA!
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
we've couchsurfed in the united states, spain, france, and morocco. we loved being hosts in DC and even were fortunate enough to have a couple full circle couchsurfing experiences! now onward to more CS joy in the Bay Area!
Interests
food, wine and beer, cooking, chocolate, tea, conversation, art, nature, travel, organic farming, community, and meeting new people.
- arts
- dining
- cooking
- chocolate
- wine
- beer
- walking
- traveling
- guitar
- camping
- beaches
Music, Movies, and Books
Movies: Rushmore, The Wizard of Oz, The Big Lebowski, Kurosawa's Dreams to name a few.
Music: The kind that broadens your perspective of reality.
Books: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Leaves of Grass, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Anna Karenina, Narcissus & Goldmund, A Moveable Feast, One Straw Revolution, The Rum Diary, and Moby Dick to name a few. We eat Bukowski for breakfast.
Lauren's Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/laurengrrrr
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
teaching English in France. walking the el camino de santigao de compostela. camping on a beach in fisterra, spain for two amazing weeks. but most of all sharing these moments and new ones with each other.
Teach, Learn, Share
we can share our passion for cooking with you.
some random things we want to learn about are: building cob houses, foraging, growing mushrooms, practicing spanish and french.
we are also teaching ourselves how to play the accordion and guitar so musicians are most welcome!
Countries I’ve Visited
Canada, Cuba, Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, Spain
Countries I’ve Lived In
France, United Kingdom, United States
Old School Badges
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