CURRENT MISSION

Designing a conservation project for a tree species called Pacific Yew, taking care of forest health issues in remote sections of a Native American reservation, and creating some music in the wilderness and mountains

ABOUT ME

I try to be as humble as I can, and love everyone and everything. Some days I am not, and I do not. 😇

PHILOSOPHY

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." ~Mark Twain

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet great people and help me afford to travel, and help others afford to travel. Travel shouldn’t only be available for the ultra-wealthy!

Interests

hiking, music, traveling the world, spirituality, learning, different cultures, love, nature, art/expression, drum circles, gatherings, meditaion, yoga, enlightenment, anything beautiful or artistic

• animals
• arts
• photography
• tattoos
• music festivals
• dancing
• education
• vegan
• yoga
• meditation
• movies
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• sailing
• ecology
• science
• mountains
• art
• films
• forests
• adventures
• sleeping
• film
• desert
• science fiction
• health
• growth
• aurora borealis
• kindness
• museums
• healthy food
• family
• spain
• stars
• healthy lifestyle
• consciousness
• spicy food
• trees
• sunrises
• sunsets
• crystals
• fruits
• cactus
• seattle
• cambodia
• colors
• hummus
• university
• djembe
• steelers
• handpan

Music, Movies, and Books

Open to recommendations, I have some music for you too!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Let’s make some new memories! I’ve been lucky, some of my favorite memories:

explored cambodia alone, made love under the aurora borealis in a cabin with a glass ceiling, received a free education in Norway, studied in Spain, won a few photography contests and had my photography published, lived close to Amsterdam for almost a year, solo cross country road tripped across USA for 3 and a half months visiting many national parks, night hiked the Kalalau trail in Hawaii for my bday, studied in Svalbard, the most northern inhabited establishment in the world, midnight canoed through still glass waters reflecting the aurora borealis around us, lived on a sailboat for 3 years, night hiked the enchantment lakes trail, raised over $30,000 for an environmental non profit organization, played music in a reggae band on the main stage at a music festival in Sweden, made friends with mountain goats, jack rabbit, deer, bees, butterflies, banana slugs, eider duck, etc, lived in a house on the beach for free, had dreadlocks for 13 years, dj’ed a rooftop ecstatic dance party in Missoula, did some scientific research in the arctic on climate change, fell in love with some of the most amazing and beautiful humans in the entire world, I’ve known some pretty great dogs, night hiked under the midnight sun to the top of a purple volcano in Iceland.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Music! Hiking trail recommendations around the world

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, Taiwan, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, United States

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