CURRENT MISSION

To keep alive the lessons learned while traveling.

ABOUT ME

We're a family of six. We like our pets, filling our backyard with alpacas and cats (no cats in the house) and chickens and ducks.

Parents work out of the house and kids are students.

We have a cabin in Wisconsin that also has a couch!

PHILOSOPHY

We're Christians.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

UPDATE 06/18/10: Discovered today that our email connection to the site had been lost over the winter so we missed a lot of requests. Hence, the bad percentage of responses. Sorry! I really do respond to requests if all is working well.

We started Couchsurfing during a trip to Ireland. I never really expected that anyone would want to surf with us in the Chicago suburbs but they have and it's been great! TAKE NOTE: Availability can sometimes be a challenge during summer weekends. If you can arrange to stop during the week, that's often better for us.
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COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Most recently we were in Ireland and the couchsurfing we did was the best part of our trip. We enjoyed all of our hosts thoroughly.

Updated 06/05/13: Had to be unavailable for a time but are now BACK!

Interests

Travel, hanging out in cozy pubs (or whatever passes for that in the US), our animals, piano, reading, horseback riding, hunting, hiking, bike riding.

• animals
• pets
• cats
• chickens
• working out
• pub crawls
• motorcycles
• reading
• traveling
• woodworking
• piano
• cycling
• equestrian
• hiking
• hunting

Music, Movies, and Books

Love Australian movies, gravitate towards British humor and don't watch TV. Voracious readers...Harry Potter, classics, non-fiction. Parents like folk music and are otherwise stuck in the '80s. Teens are more current.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Before kids, we used to take these amazing trips out west on our motorcycles. No itinerary, no hotels...we'd just ride and explore and sleep under the stars.
We homebirthed all of our children.
We homeschooled all of our children.

Teach, Learn, Share

Piano, woodworking, animals

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Honduras, Ireland, Puerto Rico, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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