I’m Steph (he/him or they/them). I’m just looking for travel companions and cool people to meet up with as I travel in Europe this summer. I'm swinging through London, Athens, island-hopping the Ionian, Naples... and not sure after that.

I live in Honolulu, Hawai’i and can host fellow travelers who come this way.

I'm interested in meeting and hosting likeminded people who respect and are thoughtful about the history, culture, and politics of the places they travel. (And who would be willing to share and be thoughtful with me about their context while I travel and stay with them.) Mutual exchange and solidarity would be a wonderful thing to build with new friends. In addition to all that, I'm pretty basic and like basic things like craft beer, museums, theater, and board games.

It would be especially great to meet other LGBQ, POC, and/or trans travelers. And all else who are friendly and accepting.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Meet new friends and travel buds!

Interests

• literature
• theater
• lgbt rights
• dining
• cooking
• board games
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• opera
• kayaking
• surfing
• art history
• history
• medicine
• adventure travel
• cultural immersion
• historic sites
• ukulele
• food
• craft beer
• queer
• local food
• museums
• gayfriendly
• nature walks
• musical theatre

Music, Movies, and Books

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kundera), The Odyssey, The Parable of the Sower (Butler), Kindred (Butler), P&P (Austen), poetry (Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver), Audre Lorde (she is her own category), Geek Love (Dunn), White Teeth (Smith)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

odi et amo

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: a cat to high five, Learn: to expand my sense of the world and self, to be simultaneously infinitesimal and at the center of my own story while in yours, Share: pizza. Always share pizza. And ice cream.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Perspective about where I’m from/live (California/Hawai’i), insight into communities I’m a part of and have been influenced by (medical, queer&trans, POC, political organizing), maybe some mac nuts (spam musubis don’t travel well)

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, France, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States