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Overview

  • 56 references 48 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French, Spanish
  • 90, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • Retired University professor
  • Masters, post graduate work in fine arts
  • From Webster Groves, MO, USA
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Hearty, seasoned travelers with sleeping bags are my people. I have a simple place in the country, Colonia Morelos, which is best for those on push/pedal bikes or motos. If using the local bus it leaves every 2 hours from the San Juan de Dios market and takes about 40 minutes. There are frequent buses to La Esmeralda and then a 2 kilometer walk to my house. You will want and need more than a day or 2 .
If traveling by motorhome there is parking space and access to the house and outside patio.
You are welcome-

ABOUT ME

Am an old Hippie, live alone in the country. Have 3 grown sons, 1 Swedish-American grandson, 2 Japanese-American Granddaughters.
Lived in Finland, Sweden, Ecuador, West Indies, Greece, Mexico, traveled in 87 other countries.
Hiked the Grand Canyon, 800K Santiago de Compostelo Pilgimage 270 mile Salt March with Ghandi's greatgrandson.

PHILOSOPHY

Be kind, everyone is fighting a hard battle. Maybe help a little along the way.
Pretty liberal, probably eccentric.
Live gently on the earth

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Have lived with wall to wall mattresses, hosting people from all over the world. Life with my kids was a constant "happening"
Was a member of Servas International for many years before Couchsurfing.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Think it's a wonderful idea. As a matter of fact, I heard about this in Slovakia when a couple told me they hitchhiked in their wedding clothes and CouchSurfed for their honeymoon.
Travelled all over the world with SERVAS, now Couchsurfing for 14 years (not for over 2 years during Covid)
You can take the bus out for a picnic in the patio.

Interests

Music, gardening, handicrafts, creating my life. Having interesting experiences, meeting interesting people.

Watching my graddaughters mature. Creating my life, home and garden as a work of art. Music, handicrafts.

  • arts
  • gardening
  • clothing
  • flowers
  • music
  • canoeing

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite movies "Milagro Beanfield War" "Baghdad Cafe"
Favorite Books...Voltaire "Candide" "Micromegas" Dan Brown "DaVinci Code" Joseph Campbell "The Power of Myth"

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

It's all been pretty amazing. I've traveled from A to Z, Antofagasta to Zanzibar, 200 miles above the Arctic Circle and met the Lappi King. Drove a VW Beetle down the PanAm highway, took a dugout canoe down the Pacific, Stayed in the summer house of the King of Tonga,

Countries I’ve Visited

American Samoa

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