CURRENT MISSION

Currently living in Albuquerque, NM and working in food service while slowly completing my licensure as a massage therapist. Other missions: I would love to do a bike tour somewhere again sooner than later, get back into climbing, mountain biking, canyoneering, backpacking and skiing. I would eventually like to find a balance of work in healing and body work, and in ecology, conservation, wilderness, education, and the promotion of sustainability. General life mission: To eat, drink, dance, sing, adventure and be merry with the good people beautiful places of the world.

ABOUT ME

I am a liberally minded person who enjoys outdoor adventures, delicious local and sustainable foods and drinks (when possible), a good book, art of all kinds, foreign languages (Portuguese and Spanish and hope to learn more), ecology and the environment, psychology, music and more. I look forward to my next travel adventure and forever exploring the wilderness and people of the world.

PHILOSOPHY

Not sure I have one, when I do I'll let you know... Fun tends to be my leading motivator and decision maker when possible :-)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Have surfed a handful of times abroad and in the US with great results, and hosted a few times when I lived in Durango, CO. I hope to both surf and host in the States when I can, and surf when traveling in other countries again!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed a few times each in NZ, Bangkok, and Nicaragua, New Mexico, and Minnesota. Hope to do more!

Interests

Being in the wild outdoors. Other than that... foreign languages and linguistics, the natural world, riding my bike, bike touring, hot springs, drawing, composting, recycling, good food with good company, chocolate, world music and movies, free stuff! the smell of the seasons, christmas lights, hanging out in and near mountains, rocks, and bodies of water, good wine and tasty cocktails, hats, costumes, dancing, stars, space, and the supernatural, dreams, energy fields, philosophical and intellectually stimulating conversations, wild spontaneous adventures and other such fun.

• arts
• singing
• dancing
• education
• environment
• dining
• chocolate
• wine
• cheese
• drinking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• world music
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• backpacking
• skiing
• sports
• ecology
• teaching
• languages
• psychology
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC:

Mostly bluegrass, folk and folk rock, indie, blues, rock, jam bands, world music (esp. Brazilian, latin, middle eastern), some hip hop, reggae, etc. Really anything except hard core rock, punk and metal.

MOVIES:

Waking Life, Office Space, Howl's Moving Castle, Into the Wild, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2, Babel, Pan's Labyrinth, Little Miss Sunshine, Rent, Brokeback Mountain, V for Vendetta, Princess Mononoke, most comic book/graphic novels turned movies, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Memento, Amélie, Run Lola Run, Wallace and Grommit movies, American Beauty, Donnie Darko, SuperTroopers, Xiao Lin Soccer, Bond movies, Spiderman, most Disney and Disney-Pixar movies (the classics)...

BOOKS:

In no particular order: Broken Earth series by N.K. Jemisin, Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, Blink, anything by Sherman Alexie, Edward Abbey, Craig Childs, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Snow Falling on Cedars, Harry Potter series, Ender's Game, Dune, Dirt, anything by Barbara Kingsolver, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, Hafiz, Rumi, Mary Oliver, The Sandman series (and other Neil Gaiman), most graphic novels and comics, Calvin and Hobbes, most fantasy and sci-fi, good dramatic novels, modern fiction, any well-written ecological, biological, outdoorsy or otherwise fact-filled fun read. Also, currently enjoying immersing myself in fantasy worlds via Game of Thrones and the King Killer Chronicle (Patrick Rothfuss).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Living on a Russian icebreaker research vessel in the Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand for a week was pretty damn cool, and I LOVED Vietnam and Nicaragua. Guatemala and Brazil will always be in my heart.

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Fiji, Guatemala, Honduras, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, New Zealand, United States

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