CURRENT MISSION

Enjoy life and family, enjoy work and play.

ABOUT ME

I'm a Yank who visited Australia while in university and just hung out here for the next 25 years.

I like my work, but honestly do it for travel time and many hobbies. Love my kiddos and playing and travelling with them all I can.

Love to visit with people and learn all I can.

Ummm - tall, brown hair, brown eyes .....

PHILOSOPHY

Time is much more valuable than money.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Joined as soon as I found it. Happy to host travellers and have been doing so for years at my home. So did my parents while I was growing up. Just not so organized as this.

Makes the whole travel experience so much more of an experience.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have stayed all over the place with friends and family of friends.

My first experience was with a family in Melbourne when I first came to Oz. They became true family and I still have close contact with them, and have enjoyed 20 years of watching their kids grow and their lives change.

One of their kids has moved to Spain and I am travelling there to photograph her wedding. That's how I came to find CouchSurfing.

Interests

Wow, so much. Scuba, paragliding, Tennis, reading, photography, my kids, gardening, renovating houses, meeting people, watching people do things that they are really good at.

• photography
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• scuba diving
• rock climbing
• tennis
• paragliding
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Love em. Mainly non fiction books in my old age.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Climbing mountains. Was amazing to see the shadow of the ground I was standing on extending across the tops of clouds a mile below.

Teach, Learn, Share

Learn, share, teach!

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, United States