I love to travel, and I have realized that the part that brings me the most joy is meeting local people and understanding their culture and lifestyle. Typically, I like to pair hitchhiking and tenting so that I can meet cool people and save money for trying local foods and experiences. At home, we like to pick up hitchhikers to repay our good karma. I realized that I should expand my opportunities for awesome connections by Couchsurfing. During the hot summer months and the dead of winter, camping becomes less than comfortable. I'm looking forward to welcoming couchsurfers once I have finished restoring my house!

I love new wave 80s music, swing, funk, disco, motown, classical strings and orchestral music, and David Bowie. Some of my favourite movies off the top of my head include Chariots of Fire, Billy Elliot, Patch Adams, The Dead Poets Society, A Room with a View, Lost in Translation, The Big Short, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, It's Kind of a Funny Story... Some of my favourite books are Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell, Urchin by Kate Storey, The Call of the Wild by Jack London, How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett.