Perth, Western Australia, Australia
@brittneytammisto
Member since 2013
CURRENT MISSION: Learn to fly ABOUT ME: You would probably call me free-spirited and independent. Seeing new places, doing new things, trying new foods and meeting new people keep me motivated to stay on the road. I have been living abroad for the last 3 years between Australia and New Zealand, now currently backpacking SE Asia! Currently: Western Australia Next stop: Western Australia...because lockdown
Interested in Adventure Sports
Interested in Crafts
Fluent in English
Learning Finnish
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING: Have hosted around 30 couch surfers in Queenstown, New Zealand! Now I am on the road to explore this brilliant world, make new friends, and get inspired.
Music, Movies, and Books
Have recently read, and recommend you do to: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves- Karen Joy Fowler Dark Places- Gillian Flynn A Thousand Splendid Suns- Khaled Hosseini Burmese Days- George Orwell A Field Guide to Getting Lost- Rebecca Solnit Nobody is Ever Missing- Katherine Lacey A Brief History of Seven Killings- Marlon James The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini Life After Life- Kate Atkinson The Narrow Road to the Deep North- Richard Flanagan Americanah- Chimamanda Ngozi The House on Mango Street- Sandra Cisneros Gone Girl- Gillian Flynn A Tale for the Time Being- Ruth Ozeki The Alchemist- Paulo Coelho Cat's Cradle- Kurt Vonnegut Yes Please!- Amy Poehler You Shall Know Our Velocity- Dave Eggers Shantaram- Gregory David Roberts. Music: Ever changing, but Frightened Rabbit. Always.
One Amazing Thing I've Done
My number one bucket list item: went cage diving with Great White Sharks!
My Interests
Photography- amateur, I take the occasional rad photo Documentaries-mostly about sharks or space or both Road trips-which I would get around to more often if petrol wasn't $2.25/litre down under! Hikes-on a sunny day Snowboarding- might as well make the most out of a winter season DIY projects-oh yes Running-when it's hot enough to jump in the lake afterwards Reading-comes in spurs Podcasts- best thing ever
