CURRENT MISSION

to travel to all 5 continents ( 1 to go!)

ABOUT ME

I have been a member for a while and found Couch Surfing really useful during my winter back-packing trip through Europe in 2015. Yes, you heard right! In the winter time! I met a bunch of great people through Couch Surfing and some of them I became great friends with to this day. When I first joined, I was still a college student and now as a 'real' adult, I see opportunities to meet new people getting smaller and smaller. I hope to stay part of this community for a while!

New update: I am now also a yoga teacher :D

PHILOSOPHY

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
-Richard Feynman, Nobel-Prize-winning physicist, in a presidential commission’s report on the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger

"Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of ocean are dirty, the whole ocean does not become dirty"
-Mahatma Ghandi

"It is not what we get, but who we become, what we contribute...that gives meaning to our lives"
-Tony Robbins

"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."
-Frank Loyd Wright

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

both!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My first couch surfing experience was crashing at a mutual friend's futon for several days. It was way more homey and welcoming than a hotel can ever be. Couch surfing is a great way to get to know the true character of the people and places you are visiting. Until I become too old to couch surf, I will definitely prefer this over traditional means of travel!

I've couchsurfed with the bf in old Savannah and Portland. Great hosts and can't wait to keep meeting new people.

Interests

Being Outside as Much as Possible; Cycling; Running; Swimming; Vegetarian Cooking; Engineers Without Borders; Engineers for a Sustainable World; Hiking; Laying Under Trees; Rock climbing; Kayaking

• cooking
• vegetarian
• yoga
• running
• technology
• traveling
• cycling
• hiking
• kayaking
• surfing
• rock climbing
• swimming
• teaching
• engineering
• physics

Music, Movies, and Books

Please peruse my likes and dislikes that I copied onto CouchSurfing from my Facebook account from 2006....

Movies: (not a big movie person, but here are some favorites) Cruel Intentions; V for Vendetta; Pirates of the Caribbean; Sweet November; Mean Girls; Juno; Old Disney Movies; Harry Potter

Music:Close
Snow Patrol; 30 Seconds to Mars; Unwritten Law; Muse; Jack Johnson; Paramore; Something Corporate; Rise Against; Taking Back Sunday; Jimmy Eat World; The Veronicas; Lifehouse; Jason Mraz; Aqualung; Third Eye Blind; Augustana; The Wallflowers; DISPATCH; Vampire Weekend; Bela Fleck and the Flecktones; Unwritten Law; Led Zeppelin; Shakira; Chopin; John Mayer; Michael Buble; The Used; Mad Caddies; Kings Of Leon; 311; The Killers

Books: Wherever You Go, There You Are; La Casa De Los Spiritos; Portrait in Sepia; Pedro Paramo; Harry Potter; The Stranger; The Devil and Miss Prym; The Alchemist; Veronika Decides to Die; The Witch of Portobello; David Copperfield; To Kill a Mockingbird

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

rock climbed in Joshua Tree, CA !

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you Yoga :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Colombia, India, Italy, Norway, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Croatia, Germany, United States

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