CURRENT MISSION

I love to move and am finally hitting the road after a few year break in Denver, Colorado. I use CS, Workaway.info, friends and seasonal employment to stay active and keep up a pretty fast momentum. I love seeing the world from the POV of a local.

ABOUT ME

Hey there!

My family hails from the more interesting half of New Jersey, where there's big pine forests and a lot of winding rivers. For a change I went to school in DC focussing international affairs, later studied in Chile for a bit, and then finally finished my time in Washington as a first grade teacher. Since then, I've lived in Queens, Brooklyn, and now Philadelphia as I plan my next few adventures.

I have a kooky sense of humor but I seem to get along with most anybody I meet, hopefully you'll agree!

For this summer I'll be working and passing through Colorado in June surfing around Denver, and then flying down to New Orleans . No real plans, just a lot of meandering.

PHILOSOPHY

Meet the world, see it all. Then see where I can go from there.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm a longtime surfer, having passed through England, Amsterdam, Spain, and France way back when and more recently through Buenos Aires, Peru, Bolivia and Chile.

Back on the road in 2019 for Southern California, Central and hopefully South America if everything works out!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

All good! Ask in person, or via message, also check my references :D

Interests

I'm very active in the arts; painting, sculpting and drawing are big hobbies of mine. I love learning new languages, and am currently working on French!

• arts
• cooking
• flying
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• bouldering
• cycling
• surfing
• teaching
• languages
• rivers
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

This is a tough question so I'll just list some favorites:

Kill Bill(s), X-men, Midnight in Paris, Seven Samurai, Requiem for a Dream, the Incredibles, Princess Bride, Ken Burns Documentaries, Game of Thrones,

Future Islands, Etta James, Lumineers, Fiona Apple, Grizzly Bear, The Gossip, Nina Simone, Crystal Castles, blah blah blah I love a lot of music but really love finding more, please share some of your favorites

Cien Años de Soledad, Travels with Charlie, House of Leaves, Open Veins of Latin America, The Wind Up Bird Chronicles, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I hiked the Inka Trail from Cuzco through the mountains, down by bike and back up to Aguas Calientes to finish with a 3am vertical march up the the ruins of Macchu Picchu

visited 26 states (52%)Create your own visited map of The United States or Like this? try: Google Chat Bot

visited 14 states (6.22%)Create your own visited map of The World or Like this? try: Chinese Radicals

Teach, Learn, Share

Everyone has an incredible story. The best way of surfing, traveling, or just moving through life is by using your ears. I'd love to share what I've seen as well as cook a recipe I picked up along my travels :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, France, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Panama, Peru, Spain, Turks and Caicos Islands, United Kingdom, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Chile, Mexico, United States

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