CURRENT MISSION

Survive work and life with two young kids!

ABOUT ME

Madeleine is a researcher. Eric is a stay-at-home dad! Two little munchkins rounds out our family.

We love traveling and meeting new people. Never was good at describing us, we're modest and a little self-conscious. Madeleine likes to be helpful. Eric loves to make people laugh.

PHILOSOPHY

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

E. B. White

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

in life? in CouchSurfing? We're new to the community but very interested in participatings.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We haven't done CouchSurfing before with someone we didn't know, and we're looking forward to it!

Interests

Shared: TRAVEL, cooking (vegetarian), eating, music, movies, anything generally creative

Madeleine also likes reading, gardening (but I have a brown thumb), recycling/buying used goods/bargain hunting, social and economic issues

Eric loves all kinds of sports and learning about new ones. Also loves history and trivia.

• cooking
• vegetarian
• gardening
• trivia
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• hunting
• sports
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Shared: The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, Radiohead, Super Furry Animals, Wilco, Belle and Sebastian

Madeleine: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Lord Of The Rings, Pride and Prejudice, The Once and Future King, Nixonland, The Good Earth, A People's History of the United States

Almost Famous, Vertigo

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hmm, hard to pick one!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Malaysia, Micronesia, Federated States of, Netherlands, Philippines, Qatar, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Saudi Arabia, United States