CURRENT MISSION

Our current mission is to get out of Asia [Korea has been our home for the past year], and just travel for a bit. Our heads need a rest.

ABOUT ME

Kelley is [trying to be] an artist who is so excited to finish her teaching job and get back to creating. She is open minded, and always really excited about traveling. She loves avocados, bagels, and pickles. She likes the Cranberries and loves the movie "Jeux d'enfants." Her favorite book is The Crying of Lot 49 and she dislikes green peppers and rain.

Sam is a simple man with no direction. He loves to travel, and he's currently putting off making any major life decisions. He likes whiskey and dogs, contemporary American literature, and smoked meats. He used to be a pretty decent water polo player, but it's been a while, so now he feeds his athletic inclinations purely as an (avid) spectator. He's from Chicago, and he loves it, and he'll remind you of this fact many times over.

PHILOSOPHY

Kelley: One personal philosophy is limiting.

Sam: I'm with Kelley. I have no idea how to answer this question.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We've both traveled quite a bit, but this will be our first time using CouchSurfing. We hope to meet people who can show us what life is like beyond the typical tourist destinations.

After this trip, we hope to become hosts and share our own couches, too. Of course, we'll need to find places to live and jobs first...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

See above.

Interests

Kelley's interests: vegetables, traveling, reading, running, letterpress, coffee, vegetables, printing, art, bookmaking, movies, music, fashion, sewing, old rusty things, used furniture, vegetables.

Sam's interests: Kelley, conversation, alcohol, reading, water polo, guitar (but he thinks he wants to just forget that and learn to play the banjo instead), hats, cooking, campfires, public radio.

• dogs
• arts
• books
• literature
• fashion
• cooking
• coffee
• running
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• guitar
• water polo

Music, Movies, and Books

Kelley music: Cranberries, REM, Fleetwood Mac, Beach House, Bon Iver, French Kicks, Camera Obscura, etc, etc
Kelley movies: everything
Kelley books: The Crying of Lot 49, Love in the Time of Cholera, Ghostwritten, Cloud Atlas, Waiting for the Barbarians, Disgrace, etc, etc

Sam music: Das Racist, The Allman Brothers Band, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Lupe Fiasco, Everything Everything, Pharcyde, Al Green, Beirut, Cartola, Trampled by Turtles, etc.
Sam movies: In Bruges, The Big Lebowski, Evil Dead II, Sideways, Dr. Strangelove, Mrs. Doubtfire, Space Jam, etc.
Sam books: Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, DeLillo, Nabokov, David Foster Wallace, Camus, Chuck Klosterman, Faulkner, etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Kelley: The endless desert in Namibia. Nothing like it.

Sam: The feeling of a still-beating king cobra heart as it thumped down my esophagus in Vietnam.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, China, France, Germany, Ghana, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Laos, Mexico, Namibia, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Africa, South Korea, United States, Viet Nam

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