CURRENT MISSION

to make my thirties incredible

ABOUT ME

photography hobbyist; modern age quilter; coffee fiend; pandora spinner; yogurt parfait addict; port wine lover; unchecked list-maker; basically, your sorta shy, but not really, quiet type

PHILOSOPHY

life could not be truly complete without...dark roast coffee, port wine, olive oil & garlic, incredible friends, quiet bars, and kindness from strangers.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

This is my first time on CS. I hope to meet other CSers while traveling.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

never done couch surfing--sounds like fun!

Interests

photography, art, wine, reading, watching mob movies and dark foreign film, quilting (absolutely love fabric), walks, volunteering in my community.

• arts
• photography
• wine
• coffee
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• surfing
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: A Clockwork Orange, Interpreter of Maladies, The Vagabond, The Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, Othello, Nine Stories, anything by Jose Saramago, Salman Rushdie, and Margaret Atwood, The Fountainhead, Heloise and Abelard, poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sound & The Fury

Movies: Igby Goes Down, Alien, The Godfather, The Lord of the Rings, generally indie and arthouse.

Music: Radiohead, New Order, CocoRosie, Madredeus, Goldfrapp, Missy Elliott, Portishead, The Killers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Sounds, Santigold, Gotan Project, The Ting Tings, and thanks to my mom, I have a deep fondness for the oldies and motown. I am also a big fan of Pandora Internet Radio.

Food: Indian, Portuguese, and Italian

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I went to India--it was incredbile!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Costa Rica, France, Germany, India, Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States