Hi! I'm Margaux, I'm from Vermont and I'm currently on a gap year traveling before university. Spent three months in Cambodia/Vietnam/Thailand, now bouncing around Europe for April and May - the closer I get to returning home, the more places I want to go!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I like to see places from lots of different angles, so try to look for variety in where I stay, and especially like getting to know locals (of course)

Interests

Art, music, literature, painting, history politics religion hiking mountains skiing oceans beauty soft blankets comfortable shoes reusable water bottles inexpensive sunglasses good conversation!

• cats
• dogs
• gardening
• reading
• painting
• hiking
• snorkeling
• skiing

Music, Movies, and Books

The Beatles, Pink Floyd, the Doors, Simon and Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, Bowie, Prince, Iggy Pop, B-52s, Bob Dylan, the Clash, Chance the Rapper, Talking Heads, David Byrne, ELO, the Frights, Grateful Dead, Johnny Cash, the Kinks, Meat Loaf, Miles Davis, Queen, Rihanna, the Sex Pistols, Tame Impala, the Velvet Underground, etc etc haha - lots of newer music as well but I really like listening to albums in full, whereas with more modern music I listen to individual songs & playlists so can't remember all the artists aha.
Way too many movies and books to list so I'll just give a list of the books I've read since I started traveling: Gardens of the Moon/Deadhouse Gates/Memories of Ice/House of Chains by Steven Erickson, Animal Farm/1984 by George Orwell, Stories of Your Life and Others (forget the author, sci-fi short stories), Insomnia by Steven King, Brave New World by Huxley, Hell's Angels by Hunter S Thompson, Giovanni's Room by Baldwin, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, Catch-22 by Heller, To the Lighthouse by Woolf, Midsummer by Derek Walcott, Great Expectations by Dickens

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Jumped off a 35 foot cliff! & skied Vermont backcountry :~)

Teach, Learn, Share

English, painting (I have watercolors), journaling, writing, I'd love to cook a meal with you although I'm not too talented in the kitchen myself, & I love just talking to people! If you have a ukulele I can mess around with it and I'd loooove to learn some guitar. Always happy to share a glass of wine of course :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

As stated above!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Cambodia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States