CURRENT MISSION

live boldly

ABOUT ME

I've spent a lot of my life in and around Seattle, Washington. After college I moved to Baltimore, Maryland where I spent a year doing video editing and photography for a refugee resettlement organization. I left Baltimore in September 2010 and took a walk across Northern Spain on El Camino de Santiago. I moved back to Seattle in November 2010. I love the trees, plaid shirts, and coffee offerings of the Pacific Northwest.

PHILOSOPHY

Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I host, and someday, I will surf.

Interests

Psychological development, urban chickens, documentary films, feminist commentary, searching for comparative bias in everyday rhetoric, cooking (especially with cilantro and garlic), baking (especially with loose leaf teas), eating guacamole, memorizing countries and their locations throughout the world.

• chickens
• photography
• documentaries
• cooking
• coffee
• baking
• movies

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Dan in Real Life

Music: The Slow Club, The Avett Brothers, Regina Spektor, Bon Iver, Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside, Laura Marling, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Of Monsters and Men, First Aid Kit, Old Crow Medicine Show, Arcade Fire, I'm From Barcelona, Ingrid Michaelson, Starfucker, The Mountain Goats, Emmy the Great, Caleb Stine

Books: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, Middlesex and The Marraige Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides, Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Once I walked across Spain. It was lovely.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, United States