I am a person you should go into the mountains with.

A Lithuanian emigrant and a German immigrant, but at the moment I consider myself a Berliner. I do not really love big cities (even though I have an academic specialization in city planning...), but i absolutely love plants, social equality and hiking (!). I was a barkeeper, I am an architect now, and I want to be an urban scholar some day. I love reading complicated books and discussing complicated themes. I also love beer and wine, and having people from different backgrounds around me. I am tolerant but disappointed with mainstream tourism - so at my place you would get a good glimpse of what this city is really about. And name is IEVA, not LEVA (apparently I must state it as a response to the recent couchsurfers' messages. Four letters, people - it is not astrophysics)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

The CS community is amazing, and I got to appreaciate it so much during my recent two months trip in North America that I did almost entirely on CS. I met so many amazing people, got to hear so many wonderful ideas and to share my experiences, food and wine with so many great personalities, so now I want to give some hospitality and good energy back.

Backpacking, couchsurfing and hitch hiking rules!

Interests

hiking, wilderness, sleeping, books, tv series.

also people who have been to the Rocky Mountains and can give me suggestions about where to go and what to see there!

• books
• architecture
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• reading
• tv
• traveling
• hiking
• backpacking
• tourism
• mountains

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I slept for the first time in my life alone on the ocean shore in a tent on Brier Island in Nova Scotia, when the next human being was five kilometers away. That night I said to myself - if I can do it, I can do everything.
oh, and I did a shit load of hikes in the wilderness in Canada. alone. and after hearing the story of the pack of coyotes that atacked a single female traveler in Cape Breton Island two years ago

What I Can Share with Hosts

A mattress, clean bed sheets (after seeing NY and being by myself on the road for a longer time it is just a healthy precaution because of all the travel companions), cooking together and sharing wine, beer and stories

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Lithuania