CURRENT MISSION

to rule the world... or at least see it all!

ABOUT ME

Currently taking a break from the rat race to raise my littles, and having a blast. We love traveling, though with young kids I don't get as many trips in as I would like. Most recently we have had the opportunity to visit Cozumel and Costa Rica as a family. We love exposing ourselves and our children to different cultures, and ideas, foods, etc - and look forward to hosting guests during their travels!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love love love to travel. The next best thing to traveling myself is hosting other world travelers and hearing their stories! (and gaining ideas for my next adventure)

The idea of this site spoke to me from the moment I learned of its existence. Simply everything about it is pretty much awesome. As was said perfectly by Mark Twain:

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”

I subscribe to that concept and find couchsurfing to be the perfect tool to travel even when in my own home (but preferably out of it!)

Interests

making music, motorcycles (especially dual-sports), kayaking, art, camping/hiking, scuba diving, sky diving, traveling, reading, writing, poetry, animal rescue, gardening, my damn koi pond, DIY projects... the list continues!

• animals
• arts
• writing
• poetry
• wine
• motorcycles
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• hiking
• backpacking
• kayaking
• camping
• scuba diving
• skydiving

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: monty python, run lola run, evil dead series, boondock saints, amelie, tons of anime, princess bride, goonies,

Authors: Ayn Rand, Chuck Palahniuk, Douglas Adams, Douglas Copeland, Paulo Coehlo, Hemmingway, Russ Kick, Noam Chomsky, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S Thompson, Tom Robbins, Brian Greene,

Music: (so hard for a musi-a-holic!!) very eclectic taste with a broad range of influences. A few who stand out - Anything Chris Thile (especially goat rodeo and punch brothers), leyla mccalla, built to spill, regina spektor, jump little children, fiona apple, ani difranco, pixies, nina simone, 90's grunge child so anything of that era, jeff buckley, beth orton, sigur ros

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

ive been so lucky! I rode in a hot air balloon over wine fields in central France, dove to the bottom of the gulf of mexico while working as a commercial diver, been skydiving in several different beautiful states, life is an amazing thing! I've had the opportunity to visit every US state except Alaska & Maine (hoping to tackle Alaska this next year)

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Costa Rica, France, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States