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This lady is a great host and counter-cultural shipmate. Very kind, excitable, and genuine.

Crystal's funny. She talks to her cats in Hungarian. She talks to cars in the street. Not the drivers, the actual cars.
I'm really very grateful to Crystal. She made me welcome in her small apartment for two whole weeks while i searched for and bought a second hand motorcycle and prepared it, and myself, for a long trip.
On the morning I left Portland, she bought me a doughnut with caramel and bacon on it. Thanks Crystal. x

Very positive!
Crystal is, like, abusurdly generous and welcoming, and very fun. I arrived in Portland with some trepidation about moving there, but a weekend at C-ska's was a perfect and helpful introduction. And if this weren't enough, she can teach you a few children's songs about honeybees and washing your hands.

Crystal is an abundance of information on Ralph, Alice in Wonderland, politics, bike couture, and cats! She is incredibly welcoming and kind. She took me on my first bike ride around Portland during Sunday Walkways, and made me feel confident that I'm not going to die on a bike. She is good people, and I hope to stay with her again in the future. I highly recommend C-Ska. xoxo

I'd like to thank Crystal for her kind hospitality. I throughly enjoyed staying at her cozy home six days. I'm telling with all my heart, she is a really gracious host and wonderful lady, and I hope to reciprocate before long. Again, I really appreciate Crystal made for me while I stayed in her place. She made me feel like I'm at my own home. I will always remember her kind hospitality. All the best with her life. I hope we may meet again. May her days be sunny and beautiful always!

Ska hosted me for a couple nights in last august when I was in POrtland for a wedding in my foreign family,

It was great she's easy going and friendly welcoming and a perfect host!!!

We had a good time at the bite of oregon festival where we saw Patty Smith in concert great show 60 years and rock on !!

Crystal's like a sister and hopefully she'll come one day and meet my family and friends here in France or in Canada



funily ever after!!!!
manoo

Crystal was a very generous host who was fun to spend time with! I liked her and so will you. Highest recommendations - a neat Couchsurfer and soul!!

1st experience: very positive
We hung out, had breakfast, went to a rally then to my other host's house, hung out there, went on a walk.

Second experience: positive.
I stayed with Crystal, good times, no incident. Watched a Qatsi movie, she taught me the basics of korean.

Third experience: didn't go so well.
I stayed again. Met another couch surfer in town, we hoped to get a glass of water from Crystals. Crystal was unreachable, but I thought back to first experience. Crystal asked me to leave that night. I apologized and left amidst the rain. lesson learned.

Crystal took me in, directed me about the city and really helped me out when I needed it! Tyler-tested, couchsurfing-approved!

To have any conceptualizationry of Crystal's hospitality you have to go back in time, way back, to the B.C. era when hospitality was the supreme virtue. She is pleasant, kind, patient, and a whole list of other poitive adjectives. I strongly recommend staying here. During the depression Hobos developed a written-only language to mark the way (my hypothesis on ancient cave drawings, btw) and to indicate where is what. I'd have to leave cat-like figure on a tree in her front yard. Footnote: http://www.slackaction.com/signroll.htm

Thanks again crystal.

Hey! She's my sister~~ what do you want me to say? ;)

Crystal received me with a smile on a rainy day at her door and did not blink when I asked her to drive a stranger home. It is a long story but the bottom line is, Crystal was helpful, giving, upbeat, generous and shining. Her world travels did her a lot of good. I learned a lot with Crystal in just a few hours we stayed together. The world would do well with more angels like her.

Crystal's mom is my "Oregon Mom" so I guess that makes us Oregon sisters :) Weathering Thanksgiving together is enough to make anyone family-- especially when it includes baking oodles of cranberry bread and listening to Willie Nelson's Christmas music and teaching a 2 year old colors together! Crystal's a darling gal, with a brilliant memory and a whole lot to teach you. I'm glad we crossed paths!

this chick totally rocks. crystal caught me up on american politics, offered me maps, the key to her place, and a comfy bed to sleep in! hooray for people like crystal! when i first showed up she made me tea and when i left she packed me a bag of spring mix and a gladware container of mac salad! how rockin' is that? very. oh, and crystal's place has the best bathroom ever. i would seriously live in there. thanks again, crystal!

Enjoy time with this Babushka. Crystal is delightful, speaks several languages, loves people, travel, food, politics, learning - and most of all me.