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Rockville, Maryland, United States
@BENandHOLLY
Member since 2008
CURRENT MISSION We're a socially conscious couple with a couple kids... Once upon a time, we traveled around the world for 10 months. That was fun. ABOUT ME Holly has lived abroad several times (South America and Middle East), has a passion for photography, reading, and the outdoors. Ben's spent more time in Asia, started an NGO that does disaster oversight work and likes the ocean. Both completed an around-the-world trip using airmiles :) PHILOSOPHY Karma
Interested in Adventure Sports
Fluent in English
Learning French
1 Vouch
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING We spent much of 2010 traveling around the world. It was an amazing experience and we Couch-Surfed in India, Brussels, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney. We had amazing experiences and we're looking forward to hosting! We enjoy organizing vegetarian potlucks and community building. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE We had a wonderful time in all of our experiences... In Sydney, we got to the airport, tried to check-in for our flight and Vietnam Airlines insisted we needed a visa, even though we were just transiting in the same day! So we couldn't fly out! We purchased our tickets using airmiles and there was no availability on other partner airlines... so we called our incredible couch-surfing hosts to see if we could stay another night. We can't wait to host them when they come to the U.S.
Music, Movies, and Books
Holly's favorite books include: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Shantaram, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, there are too many to list here. We can discuss over a drink or coffee! Ben reads a lot of law related stuff - boring! Movies: My Cousin Vinny, Shawshank Redemption, Princess Bride, Defending Your Life, Forest Gump
One Amazing Thing I've Done
We both received a trip to the Galapagos as a wedding gift. Absolutely amazing.
Teach, Learn, Share
Want to learn about how to collect more frequent flier/air miles/points? Discuss politics/social policy in the U.S.? In the last year, we've been all over South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, a handful of European countries, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Bali, Tokyo, Seoul, Sydney... and we have a bunch of stories to share.
My Interests
scuba diving, photography, travel, outdoors, camping, animals, books, politics, people, vegetarian food.