**Fall/Winter 2024/2025: I am not currently able to host.**

CURRENT MISSION

Find a way out of Texas by 2030, find genuine connection with like-minded people, and be a beacon of love and support for those around me.

ABOUT ME

Hate the heat but love being outdoors - hiking or reading under a tree. Live in a housing cooperative in Austin. Love to bake, go to bar trivia, do puzzles, listen to podcasts and attempt to roller blade (still stuck in the baby-deer-learning-to-walk stage). I like people who don't take themselves too seriously. Love traveling with no agenda. Bad at documenting my travels, help me take photos? Social worker by training.

PHILOSOPHY

#1 Do No Harm, Take No Shit
#2 Optimistic nihilism - I don't believe anything is necessarily waiting for us after death. But instead of letting that get me down, I use it to motivate me to live my life because it's the only one I got! (Optimistic nihilism is the difference between "nothing matters :-(" and "nothing matters! :-)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBRqu0YOH14

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I haven't hosted since 2015 when I had a spare pull-out couch in Austin, but I have hosted couples on long road trips, international travelers here after completing school/military service, domestic travelers, and people traveling for work. I also had a great experience picking up a couple of travelers through CS on a road trip and staying with some great guys in Arizona.

Interests

• baking
• reading
• traveling
• podcasts
• live music
• road trips
• roller skating

Music, Movies, and Books

Currently listening to: Jeff Rosenstock, Nana Grizol, silence, and podcasts

Currently watching: Six Feet Under (for when my brain is on), Bling Empire (for when my brain is off)

Currently reading: What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Here's three: flown a small plane over Seattle (sorta), gone whale-watching in Canada, looked into an active volcano in Nicaragua

Teach, Learn, Share

TEACH

Mandarin Chinese (I am conversationally fluent), all things Texas, why Dallas sucks

LEARN

Your passions, your gripes, your skills unique to you

SHARE

A couple beers, lessons learned, lessons yet to learn

What I Can Share with Hosts

Limited overseas traveling experience, less limited domestic traveling experience, embroidered bracelets, anecdotes

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Mexico, Nicaragua, Taiwan

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States