CURRENT MISSION

Irene and Mark live for caring adventures. They are seasoned travelers who enjoy meeting new people and sharing conversation about beauty, sadness, hope and struggle.

ABOUT ME

We met at an international peace summer camp training in Bogota in early 2009, decided we were soul mates and have since travelled to Toronto, Milan, Venice, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Xion national park.

We are joyful people who love surprises and thinking of new and creative forms of communication and expression.

PHILOSOPHY

A fame had a clock and every week she would wind it WITH GREAT CARE. A cronopio passed by to see it and started to laugh, he went home and invented a clock-artichoke or thistle, that in one form or another can and should be said.

The cronopio’s clock artichoke is an artichoke from the large species, held by its stem in a hole in the wall. The countless leaves of the artichoke mark the present hour and furthermore all of the hours, in the fashion that the cronopio only has to remove a leaf to know the time. As he removes the leaves from left to right, the leaf always gives the correct time, and each day the cronopio begins to remove a new layer of leaves. Arriving at the heart, time can no longer be measured, and in the infinite rose violet of the center the cronopio finds great contentedness, and then eating it with oil, vinegar and salt, puts another clock in the hole.

-Julio Cortázar, Historias de Cronopios y Famas

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We are just getting involved in couch surfing and this summer will our first official experience as we travel in Spain and Italy.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We have met some couchsurfers here and there but have only recently joined.

Interests

Julio Cortázar, Audre Lorde, Frida and Trotzky, Sartre and Beauvior.

• fashion
• beauty
• traveling
• camping
• surfing