CURRENT MISSION

To keep on traveling, to all the corners of the world and any countries I still haven’t made it to.

ABOUT ME

I made a goal to visit 200 countries before I was 30, which I completed in 2017 in Mauritius! Now it’s somewhere over 225 but that depends on how you count 😁 I'm wandering through life as a seasonal tour guide, so I travel for work and work to travel. I love to share stories from my adventures, so check out nomadiccosmopolitan.com if you'd like to hear some or my instagram @nomadic_cosmopolitan if you’d like to see pictures.
Besides leading trips, I´m also a yoga teacher, a dancer (sass & tango), a (horseback) rider, a writer, a wino, a foodie, a musician (piano mainly), a philosopher, an environmentalist, an anthropologist, and always a traveler. My life philosophy is carpe diem and stay in the present.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I would love to meet and travel with as many different people around the world to enhance each experience... nothing beats a local to show you around! Learning about other people’s perspectives and life philosophies is truly the best education.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

i had a couple people surf me and my roommates house in Vancouver, BC and lots of couch surfers my couch in Reykjavik; Ive met some great people this way. Ive surfed in Faroe Islands, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Germany, the Irelands, England, the Isle of Man, Spain, Lithuania, Croatia, Argentina, Brasil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Canada, Iceland, the USA, Germany, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Nicaragua, Granada, Mexico, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and other places in the Middle East, East Africa, West Africa, Morocco, Greece, Cyprus, a lot of cities in Italy, many of the Eastern Caribbean Islands, Madeira and the Azores Islands in the Atlantic, South Pacific countries, in Melanesia and Micronesia, and Taiwan. The list continues to grow… I love couchsurfing since it is more exciting to meet new people, and have local expertise when traveling in a new place! I have introduced many of my friends and travellers I´ve met along the way to couchsurfing, convincing them to make profiles, host and surf. I hope to spread the CS message loud and clear as I keep traveling to meet like minded people :)

Interests

traveling, playing piano, latin dancing (salsa and tango), horse back riding, hiking, yoga, meditation, writing, photography, eating, cooking, drinking wine, sleeping, snowboarding, cigars, swimming, volleyball

• horses
• fish
• arts
• culture
• writing
• photography
• dancing
• tango
• environment
• cooking
• beer
• walking
• nightlife
• drinking
• shopping
• traveling
• painting
• music
• guitar
• piano
• violin
• opera
• equestrian
• fishing
• skydiving
• snowboarding
• olympics
• volleyball
• swimming
• anthropology
• philosophy
• tourism
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

The Fall, Babel, Pirates of the Carribbean, Oceans 11; Orishas, Manu Chao, Gondwana, M.I.A., Cesaria Evora, Citizen Cope, Lauryn Hill, Ray Charles, Gus Gus, Sigur Ros, Wiseguys, The Black Keys, Fat Freddy's Drop, Buena Vista Social Club, Aya Nakamura, Chopin, Rachmaninoff; George Orwell, Jared Diamond, Halldor Laxness, Mark Twain, poetry (Rumi, Gibran), Yung Pueblo

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i cant list just one amazing thing, so heres a rambling list of all of the places I thought at that moment were the most amazing moment of my life: skydiving in hawaii, sitting on top of a pagoda to see the city of 4000 pagodas, drinking an ice cold beer on the great wall of china, kissing on the eiffel tower, riding an arabian horse accross the egyptian dessert, watching an opera at the Sydney Opera house, playing with children around the ruins of Angkor Wat, every Disneyland Theme park in the world, seen northern lights in Iceland, snorkelled in the Great Barrier reef, swam with penguins and seals at the Galapagos Islands, watched the sunrise at Machu Picchu, played with penguins in Antarctica, tango danced the streets of Buenos Aires, hiked through Terra del Fuego, kayaked to Brazil from Argentina at Iguazu Falls, survived Burning Man in the Nevada desert, worked the Vancouver2010 Olympics, salsa danced/smoked a cigar/drank rum in cuba (not all at the same time), visited the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull a bunch of times, sailed across the caribbean to arrive in Colombia/Panamas Darien gap (we almost died), watching a rhinoceros give birth in a boma in Namibia, seeing wild elephants casually cross the road in Botswana, visiting Maya Sites in Central America including Chichen Itza, attended Bocuse d'or to see Iceland place 7th, celebrated my 24th birthday during Dominican Republic's Carnival in Santo Domingo, illegally entering and escaping the D.R. Congo, gorilla trekking in Rwanda, safari in Serengeti, becoming a Masai princess in the Masai Mara, riding arabian horses in the Sahara, swimming in a lake full of jelly fish in Palau, sleeping in an ice hotel in northern Norway, dogsledding in Svalbard, bunjee jumping in Nepal, skydiving over Hawaii, horse trekking in the Himalayas, seeing the north face of Everest…

Teach, Learn, Share

i am a great travel guide for reykjavik and Iceland! and if your into arts and culture, i can tell you about all the best museums and exhibits. if your interested in outdoorsy stuff, Ive been all over the highlands and wilderness areas in Iceland trekking, riding and camping. And if you just want to have a good time, I live right in the city center walking distance to Laugavegur, the main shopping and nightlife street. I know all the best spots to eat for both traditional food, popular street food and fine dining. I also love wine and can recommend you great places to have a drink or for happy hour! I also teach yoga and am happy to share some time on the mat together, and can do my best to show you a little salsa or tango dancing if you’d like.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I love cooking, dancing, and horse back riding equally, so if you like a good kitchen, some dance shoes or a pony, I´m your lady!

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Anguilla, Antarctica, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, England, Estonia, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Federated States of, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Niue, North Korea, Northern Ireland, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Réunion, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin (French part), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin Islands, U.S., Wales, Wallis and Futuna, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Åland Islands

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Canada, France, Iceland, United States

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