ABOUT ME

I am an odd combination of the girl next door and unconventional woman of the world. I am married but like to travel alone. I speak very rusty Brazilian Portuguese, wierdly accented Central American Spanish, French patois and a little smattering of German.

PHILOSOPHY

I try to do the right thing, even when it is not convenient.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I am a CS novice. I hosted my first surfer recently and she was a very interesting lady. Hosting was more stressful than I anticipated as there is much happening at work. Not sure that I will host again. My husband was not very comfortable with the hosting concept and that created additional stress.

Interests

I have a wide variety of interests: Art, Antiques, History, Traveling, Reading, Languages, Yoga, and Swimming and other outdoor activities such as canoeing, fishing, and hiking. I am interested in anything that has to do with food: philosophy and policy of food production, agronomics, processing, planning a meal, buying the meal, cooking, food security and safety, and wine!

• arts
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• yoga
• reading
• traveling
• outdoor activities
• fishing
• hiking
• canoeing
• swimming
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Bossa Nova, Baroque chamber music and Western swing. Books: Science Fiction, Historical fiction, biographies of artistic figures, books about starting a small business. Movies: no slasher flicks or movies about Vietnam or the mob.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have had some wonderful and tough experiences. I spent a year in Brazil during a military dictatorship, a year in West Kansas during one of the hottest summers on record, a summer in Wyoming at 9000 feet, and I currently live in one of the most beautiful places in the world.

Teach, Learn, Share

Life skills for young women. How to fry okra (really! it is a special skill!) How to simultaneously live intuitively and analytically (really! it is harder than it sounds!).