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Overview

  • 42 references 39 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English
  • 43, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • Mom of five boys
  • BA in Psychology
  • From Owensboro, KY, USA
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Learn about new cultures and make new friends the world over.

ABOUT ME

I'm a busy mother of four boys under seven

We love entertaining old and new friends, traveling the world

PHILOSOPHY

I did not have a formal religious upbringing but I have always had an intuitive feeling of the interconnectedness of the web of humanity, like the differences between us are mostly exaggerated or imagined all together.

Helping out and getting to know fellow human beings makes me feel more in tune and connected. Couch surfing reminds me that most people at their core are good and makes me more hopeful for the future.

It's my tiny step toward a more peaceful and harmonious world.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I mostly host. I love that the world comes right to my doorstep through couch surfing.

I love meeting new people, leaning about new cultures and helping people. It's a win/win all around.

Being a couch surfing host has brought a lot of meaning to my life.

Interests

Reading, Tennis, biking, Healthy living, children, science, podcasts, travel, skiing.

  • fish
  • drinking
  • flying
  • boating
  • reading
  • traveling
  • podcasts
  • cycling
  • fishing
  • hiking
  • kayaking
  • surfing
  • snorkeling
  • skiing
  • tennis
  • swimming
  • science

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Getting lost in a forest of olive trees in Delphi Greece. Discovering a tiny chapel along the way and having a monk provide tin cups for collecting drinking water from a tiny waterfall.

Snorkeling with squid and Sea turtles in the British Virgin Islands

Swimming in cenotes in the Mexican Yucatán

Staying at the Four Seasons in Anguilla

Kayaking in a bioluminescent bay in Vieques PR

Skinny-dipping while kayaking in interlaken Switzerland

Hiking along The Cinque Terre, a rugged portion of coast on the Italian Riviera.

Mushrooms in Amsterdam.

Spending time on Flamenco Beach on Culebra.

Surviving 10 min ordeal of being caught in a rip current on a deserted beach.

While in Yokohama, Japan ridding one of the worlds tallest Ferris wheel’s with a height of 107.5 meters (353 ft)

Watching a school of flying fish swim beside our boat in the Caribbean.

Attending a traveling exhibition of the boy king of Egypt in Burn Switzerland.

Taking trapeze lessons

Overcoming two years of secret gay affairs by my ex husband.

Four natural childbirths including twins.

Teach, Learn, Share

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”

- Albert Pine

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Virgin Islands, British

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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