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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
To work to foster peace, as it feels like my home country spends a lot of time and energy making war.
ABOUT ME
I've worked in cooperatives and community development most of my adult life.
PHILOSOPHY
Treat others as you'd like to be treated.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I participate by hosting couchsurfers, staying with CS people when I travel, and promoting couchsurfing.org to friends and people I meet.
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
My partner and I had a great first couchsurfing experience staying in Cardiff, Wales (UK) with Sumeet, and hosted a guy at our house in the US the week afterward. Since then I've enjoyed couchsurfing stays in Amsterdam and Prinsenbeek, Netherlands, Stuttgart, Germany, Brussels, Belgium, Cleveland, Ohio, and Long Beach, California, as well.
Interests
meeting people from other cultures; enjoying nature and animals, and the company of different people; Greece: the country, the Greek language, the culture; hiking, archeology, swimming in the ocean (or a nice lake, pond or river), canoeing.
- animals
- culture
- traveling
- socializing
- hiking
- canoeing
- swimming
- archeology
- beaches
Music, Movies, and Books
Generally I like foreign and independent films (-and love seeing them in Greek open-air cinemas!). In music, my tastes are varied: Some classical; modern orchestral (John Adams, for example); Beatles, Bunnymen, Scissor Sisters, Yes; Panos Katsimihas from Greece; lots of other genres and styles....
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Sitting beside the Parthenon on the Akropolis in Athens by moonlight.... hiking the Napali Coast and visiting the rainforest of Kauai, Hawaii.... photographing John and Yoko when I was a teenager....
Teach, Learn, Share
I am an amateur beekeeper.
Countries I’ve Visited
Belgium, Canada, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Turkey, United Kingdom
Countries I’ve Lived In
United States