CURRENT MISSION

I've traveled all my life and will continue with wine in hand!

ABOUT ME

After living most of my life abroad (six years in Cairo, Egypt, three years in London, England and four years in Perth, Australia) and spending a year studying in Western Australia and Morocco, I have been bitten by the Travel Bug with a serious case of Wanderlust.

My passion is wine, and I am excited to learn anything and everything related to it. I quit my job in the Washington State Wine Industry as Assistant Winemaker and Vineyard Assistant, and now am traveling through Europe and Australia to figure out what I want to do within the industry. I have now tended a vineyard and marketed a small boutique winery. I hope to find a job in a bigger winery or in a wine shop once in Australia.

I have been logging my adventures on my travel blog (along with what I'm learning about wine), which I welcome you to take a look at. http://willtravelforwine.com

PHILOSOPHY

Drink Wine.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am currently a surfer rather than a host but as soon as I have a place worth surfing to, I will switch it up!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Stayed with hosts in Athens, Greece; Bodrum, Turkey; and Istanbul, Turkey.

Interests

Movies, Folk Music, Wine, Obscene Amounts of Bad Television, TRAVEL, Airplane Food (just kidding), Meeting New People, Staring Covertly at Strangers, Avoiding Large Dogs, Getting Others to Dispose of Bugs

• dogs
• dining
• wine
• drinking
• shopping
• movies
• traveling
• blogging
• music
• folk music
• surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

Pride and Prejudice, Garden State, Darjeeling Limited, Pirates of the Caribbean Series, Meet the Robinsons, Avatar

Pretty Lights, Phoenix, Bon Iver, Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, RJD2, Cold War Kids (only their first album), The Shins, Fleet Foxes (so much!), Mumford and Sons (oh, banjo), Fanfarlo, Immense amounts of hip hop in the right atmosphere.

Harry Potter!, Dan Brown books (not so much the Lost Symbol), Carlos Ruiz Zafón

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

It's difficult to pick one amazing thing I've seen, when there are so many awesome places. So instead, something I've done that's amazing would be living with a Moroccan family in Old Town, Rabat by myself with no Arabic. I wasn't able to converse with them, but I did my best and formed a relationship with them over the three months I lived there. I'm proud of it!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you some things about wine (the theory, not which fancy winery in France won what wine award). Hopefully I can also teach you that not all Americans are crazy people (in a bad way).

Countries I’ve Visited

Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Slovenia, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Egypt, Morocco, United Kingdom, United States