CURRENT MISSION

See what happens next.

ABOUT ME

I am a story collector | explorer | introvert | I use my imagination more than the doctor recommends

I wrote a travel memoir (No Baggage) about a social experiment that involved traveling for 3 weeks through 9 countries with nothing but the clothes on my back and a Couchsurfer I'd just met. Check it out: www.clarabensen.com

PHILOSOPHY

do what you want | avoid harm | have fun | take risks

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

not able to host much because of my living situation, but I am able to meet up for drinks and conversation

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

surfed on four continents, occasionally host in Austin, Texas

兴趣

time travel | dance| dreams | disorientation | ruins | the unexpected and unpredicted | metamorphosis | writing | silence | noise | streets I've never been down before | forgotten things | libraries | palindromes | etymology | nooks and crannies | old things | wine | late nights | maps | fires | legends | abandoned buildings | oceans | adventure

• writing
• dancing
• wine
• drinking
• clothing
• traveling
• cartography
• teaching
• etymology
• law
• medicine
• science

音乐、电影和书籍

magical realism, surrealism, art/literature that is almost believable (but not quite)

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

pretended to be a WTO scientist in order to get a tour of Stalin's second largest (and now mostly abandoned) Soviet steel factory outside of Tbilisi, Georgia. mind that your dress doesn't catch in the liquid steel, is all I can say about that.

教，学，和分享

good conversationalist | good listener | good companion

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

stories | homemade Tex-Mex tacos | adventure

我游览过的国家

Armenia, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Macedonia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Serbia, Singapore, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom

我居住过的国家

Oman, United States

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