CURRENT MISSION

Returning to a place I like to call "home"

ABOUT ME

After spending years trying to fit into the mold, I came to the conclusion that I'm too much of a nomad to stay in one place for too long. I thrive on doing new things and meeting new people. When I'm home, I love to meet travelers and tour them around.

A lot of my free time is spent stretching and pretzeling in my faux-yoga kind of way... Partly because I love feeling balanced, but mostly because I sometimes secretly wish I could run away with Cirque Du Soleil. I love dive bars, cooking (especially when there's someone else around to enjoy it), and general tomfoolery. I'll answer to the names Lotus, Roze and occasionally, girl with the cool tattoos…

It's been suggested that I should be followed around with a camera as I have a tendency to attract some entertaining characters, which of course leads me into a lot of really fun and interesting adventures during my travels...

PHILOSOPHY

Live the life you love.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I participate by being present. And, helping where needed :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I had my first official experience as a couch surfer recently when I went to Honolulu for a job interview. My hosts were so incredibly amazing! My first night there, I had managed to forget which bus took me back home and after a long (and slightly stressful) adventure, I finally found my host's house. When I walked in, the house was warmly illuminated with soft light, The Beatles were playing "O Bla Di O Bla Da" on the i-pod and there was a note left for me offering some fresh food and much Aloha. I just about melted with joy!

Over the years, I've had a lot of people land on my couch. Though it has never been a formal "couch surfing" experience, I have always had the philosophy that the more you can do to enrich other people's lives, the more your own life will be enriched. I've traveled all over the United States, and met some truly wonderful people. Now it's time for me to start working on a plan to see the rest of the world.

Interests

• dining
• cooking
• yoga
• running
• surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

Here is a short list of SOME of the music I listen to regularly:

In No Particular Order: Tom Waits, Black Eyed Peas, Assylum Street Spankers, DJ Shadow, Plastikman, The Cure, London After Midnight, Leonard Cohen, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, David Bowie, Outcast, Ice Cube, Teargarden, Legendary Pink Dots, Fugazi, Dead Can Dance, Midnight Oil, Tomahawk, Living Colour, ICP, Bonzo Dog, Buckethead, Aphex Twin, Chemical Brothers, Red House Painters, Cypress Hill, The Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Marc Almond, Erik Avery, The Smiths, Notorious B.I.G., Thievery Corp, Lemon Jelly, Miles Davis, Object 5, Bloc Party, William Burroughs, Funk Master E-Ave, The Gorillaz, Twiztid, Peter Gabriel, Syd Barret, Lydia Lunch, Depeche Mode, Lush, The Cranes, Swans, Peter Murphy, Marianne Faithful, Zero 7, Stephane Pompougnac, NIN, Brazilian Girls, Cream, Hendrix, Uberkunst, Front 242, Skinny Puppy, Panjabi MC, Buddha Bar, Bhaz Lurman, Kurt Kobain, Hole,Velvet Undeground, Amon Tobin, Massive Attack, Tricky, Zap Mama, 2 Short, Esham, Tupac, Snoop Dogg, Eric B and Rakim, Beastie Boys, Moby, Seal, NWA, Danny Elfman, Orbital, Lush, Curve, Afroman, Billy Holiday, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Death Cab, Bare Naked Ladies, Nelly Furtado, Sugar Cubes, Bjork, Radiohead, Molly Venter, Live, Dance Macabre, Throbbing Gristle, The Breeders, Thrill Kill Cult, Disposable Heroes, REM, Fire Pie, Sisters of Mercy, Dubya MC, The Shins, OK GO, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Breakfast, Molly Venter and much, MUCH more...

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Ok, on to books!

I'm going to stick to Authors, otherwise I'll be listing this shit all day:

Douglas Copeland, Christopher Moore, Christopher Marlow, Jim Bren, Tom Robbins, Issac Asimov, William Shakespeare, Dr. Seuss, Douglas Adams, Grant Naylor, William Burroughs, W.B. Yates, Jane Austen, Jack Kerouac, C.S. Lewis, Lewis Carrol, Charles Dickens, Joseph Campbell, E.E. Cummings, Roald Dahl, Epicurus, Homer, J.R.R. Tolkein, Ann Rice, Neil Gaiman, Shel Silverstein, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, Mark Twain, Leo Tolstoy.... The list goes on and on....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Wow. This is a hard one. See me directly for some stories!

Countries I’ve Visited

United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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