CURRENT MISSION

Heading west on an adventure

ABOUT ME

I work to live and love to travel. I'm a professional painter and writer, basically a creative hustler, living job to job and participating in lots of creative projects, everything from dance troupes to film projects. I grew up in New Orleans and love my city intensely. I've been through Europe and South America, also Mexico City and many parts of the U.S. I get the travel bug and have to go. I have a couch and it's available if I'm in town and if it's not deadline week (my living room is my office and studio, too). Currently I'm heading west with my boyfriend on an road trip, leaving aug 9 and going through Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, then into California. We're driving all the way up the west coast to Seattle, then going to see Tom Robbin's town of La Connor, Washington, then back down through Idaho, wyoming, colorado, kansas, texas, and then back home to Nola. My boyfriend (see in picture) is named Scottie, and he's fun, entertaining, and a man of many stories and interests including but not limited to film making, scuba diving, writing, dancing, painting,and traveling all over the world. We're both wanderers and love to meet people and share stories and experiences.

PHILOSOPHY

Carpe Diem

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My first time couchsurfing was with my friend Cristina Smith. We couchsurfed in Rio de Janiero and Manaus, Brazil while we were traveling in South America. Daniel in Rio showed us around the beaches and funky neighborhoods, fed us feijoada, and was an amazing host! The brothers and their mom in Manaus were also wonderful--we went jet-skiing on the amazon and made many wonderful friends who I still keep in touch with.

Interests

• writing
• film making
• dancing
• boating
• traveling
• socializing
• painting
• canoeing
• scuba diving
• skiing
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

too many to list. Tell you when I meet you!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

We were canoeing on the Columbian part of the Amazon river, near a little village with no electricity. We turned off the flashlights and the only sound was the water lapping against the boat. I remember being surrounded the night like a dark velvety cocoon. I couldn't see my hands. I could only hear the water lapping up against the boat and the occasional rustle and sleepy bird twitter from the jungle shore. Then, I looked up and saw stars, millions of stars, filling every part of the sky. I lost myself in that sky, in this world and those beyond it. Even the darkest nights of the soul have this silver lining, I thought. One only needs to look up and out.