CURRENT MISSION

training for spring bicycle races

ABOUT ME

My heart is for the open places!

I am passionate about: cooking (feeding people in general), reading Jack Gilbert and Whitman on my roof, my own attempts at fiction, learning new languages, cycling, baking bread, brew pubs and music venues, drunken theological conversations late at night with JP, traveling, hitch hiking, THE MOUNTAINS.

I measure the success of a day by the number of cups of tea, quality interactions with friends and strangers, and the number of kilometers covered on my bike.

PHILOSOPHY

If you've never:

1) laid out under the stars long enough to notice their movement
2) tucked in and thrown your weight around the saddle of your bicycle to handle the corners as you plunge down a coastal hill, full speed, on a twisting road at Big Sur

then you need to seriously reconsider your lifestyle...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I will help you fall in love with Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

In 2008 I backpacked through Europe staying with a lot of couchsurfers and it was amazing.
In 2009 I biked down the west coast with a good friend, from Seattle to southern california and then bused and hitch hiked around southern Mexico; couchsurfing made it all possible.

Time to give back and continue the trend! Come visit Seattle!

Interests

day dreaming, guitar, used book stores, homemade chapatis, charcoal sketches, hoofing it, black and white photography, subAlpine lakes, wool socks, bakeries, Paris Review Interviews, biking, realist fiction, girls in scarfs, paper lanterns, strawberry rhubarb pie,

• books
• photography
• cooking
• baking
• pub crawls
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• hiking
• languages
• lakes
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC: Feist, The Shins, Sufjan Stevens, Rolling Stones, U2, Sigur Ros, The Weakerthans, Belle and Sebastian, Counting Crows, The Appleseed Cast, Chopin, Vince Guaraldi, Miles Davis

BOOKS (there are far too many) that I have recently enjoyed: Nelson Mandela's "Long Walk to Freedom", Cormac McCarthy's "The Road", Italo Calvino's "If on a Winter's Night a Travler", Dereck Walcott's "Selected Poems" and "Omeros".
***I am spending the next couple months immersed in the literature and poetry of various South American authors (thanks Elena!)

some of my favorite authors: Hemingway, Tolkien, Italo Calvino, Barbara Kingsolver, Byrce Courtenay, Cormac McCarthy, Guy Gavieral Kay,

favorite poets: Jack Gilbert, Derek Walcott, Gerrard Manley Hopkins

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The Loire Valley in autumn.
The Swiss Alps.
Biking through Paris at night.
The road to Santiago through Northern Spain -Bien Camino!

Teach, Learn, Share

I know my way around the kitchen. I'd love to share a meal/cook for anyone I'm staying with. I can help with English of course ;) -actually I'd love to teach English overseas eventually.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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