CURRENT MISSION

Going on my first solo vision quest through Europe.

ABOUT ME

I live and work in pittsburgh, Pa but I am originally from New Jersey. This past year has been difficult for me and I decided that going on a solo adventure was just the thing to renew my spirit.

PHILOSOPHY

To learn.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Looking to stay with some hosts during my time in Europe next month.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

This will be my first venture with couch surfing

Interests

I am interested in too many things. However when I feel the need to focus in I will. Art has been my passion since I was a child, I would draw on anything including expensive furniture. When language fails to communicate art will. And I love to explore things that have a difficult time being defined. Long walks, nature, the sky, dusk, gardening, and animals make me happy. Going on adventures, and recently getting lost. Anything extraordinary and anything authentic. Good music and books that make me travel beyond my own life. Long baths, good drinks, and the pleasure of baking unhealthy treats. Spending time with friends and making new ones, and learning from them. Taking long runs but never on a treadmill, playing board games, and fashion.

• animals
• arts
• books
• fashion
• coloring
• dancing
• baking
• drinking
• gardening
• board games
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Edward Scissorhands, Running with Scissors, Stranger than Fiction, Amelie, My Girl, Kill Bill, Aliens series, Terminator, The Matrix, Riding in cars with boys, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Blindness, 28 days later, What lies beneath, American Beauty, Ghost World, Life Aquatic, Royal Tenenbaums, Christmas Vacation

Music: Neko Case, Air, Mum, The Books, Nick Drake, Elvis Costello, The Beatles, Elliot Smith, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Yes, Radiohead, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Tegan and Sarah, Band of Horses, Brandy Carlisle, First Aid Kit, The shins, Echo and the Bunnymen, Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions, Devendra Banhart, The Knife, Wilco, Gregory Alan Isakov, Mirah, Explosions in the Sky, Kings of Convenience, Marina and the Diamonds

Books: Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Brideshead Revisited, Catcher in the Rye, Wild, Fortress of Soliture, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, Eat pray love, Wind up Bird Chronicle, Freedom, The amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, To Kill a Mockingbird, One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Bad Behavior, Lolita, and anything by Chuck Palahniuk and memoirs.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Traveled to Japan when I was sixteen and I was on television dancing on tatami mats to make udon noodles with a famous chef, competed in a japan vs america three legged race and lost, and i stood where the atomic bomb blew in hiroshima, which is now a peace museum with heaps of different color paper cranes everywhere which i added a yellow and blue one to that day.

Teach, Learn, Share

I love to listen and share ideas.