CURRENT MISSION

Keep on exploring what this thing called life is all about!

ABOUT ME

I am working as a public health nurse, loving my job, living in the beautiful rural area of the Columbia River Gorge. I live in Washington but work in Oregon. I am a native Northwesterner, and lived in Oregon for most of my life before relocating for several years to Northern Arizona. I have a love for the desert Southwest that I think I will carry with me for my whole life ... but also it has felt very good to return to my greener, lusher homeland! Artistically my passion is music -- I play piano, accordion and guitar, have performed solo and with a band. I really love Eastern European music and played accordion in a band that did a lot of busking on streetcorners and playing gypsy and klezmer tunes. Sooo much fun. I hope to do more traveling, especially to some of the places where this music comes from. But these days I'm not traveling too much.

PHILOSOPHY

Trust life to lead you where you need to go.

Perché sono iscritto su Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I haven't hosted or couchsurfed extensively, but the experiences I have had have been great. I like the openness of this community, and look forward to meeting other couchsurfers!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have enjoyed the hospitality of many friends, and extended that hospitality also, mostly in more unofficial venues than CS. But a couple summers ago I hosted a couple people traveling from France and it was a really fun experience. I ended up getting a beer with one of them later on when I was in Paris!

Interessi

Good music of all genres
Tai chi and Chinese medicine
Cooking (and eating!) good food
Sustainable living
Hiking, backpacking, camping
Learning how to kayak, going canoeing, learning how to fish

• fish
• folklore
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• piano
• fishing
• hiking
• backpacking
• canoeing
• kayaking
• camping
• medicine
• nursing

Musica, film e libri

Music: Greg Brown, Edith Piaf, Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch, Tosca Tango, 3 Leg Torso, Sufjan Stevens, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead, REM, U2, Indian raga music, Bob Dylan, Fishtank Ensemble, Charles Mingus, Beethoven, Chopin, Dvorak, Bartok, Eastern European folklore music, Roma music, Klezmer music.

Books: Isabel Allende, Susanna Clarke, Edward Abbey, Allen Ginsberg, Cormac McCarthy, David Sedaris, Milan Kundera, nonfiction, poetry, and I'm a sucker for Harry Potter :)

Movies: Crazy Heart, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, Juno, The Namesake, Waking Life, Dr. Strangelove, The Graduate, I'm Not There (the Bob Dylan movie), Thelma and Louise, Lost in Translation

Una cosa incredibile che ho fatto

Beautiful beautiful canyons of Southern Utah and Northern Arizona. All the time I've spent in these canyons swims together into one dream.

Insegna, impara, condividi

I am really interested in learning more about traditional folklore music of Eastern and Central Europe, and Turkey.

Cosa posso offrire ai padroni di casa

I'd love to play music together, or I can teach an accordion or piano lesson. I like to cook, I could bake you a pie (with a homemade crust!) I could recommend some beautiful and off the beaten path places to travel in the Western United States.

Paesi che ho visitato

Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway

Paesi in cui ho vissuto

Scotland, United States

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