CURRENT MISSION

exploring our wonderful world

PHILOSOPHY

If Live Gives You Lemons...Find Someone with Vodka -- haha... just kidding...hmmm... "Trust Few, Love Many, Do Harm To None"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We've couch-surfed meeting locals where we've traveled, and hosted others at our place, but we are new to the CS online site.

Interests

We both enjoy the beach, the outdoors, exploring, hiking, horseback riding, photo-safaris, baseball games, museums, the Botanical Gardens, small pubs/bars, live music, mountain climbing, biking, sailing, meeting new people, seeing new sights, dogs, history, health issues, humanitarian work, smart conversations, and meeting genuine people.

I have a particular passion for women's health and wellness, empowering girls and women world-wide, and supporting physiological birthing (i.e. as little intervention as is truly necessary).

Nick also loves to sky dive, take on a good roller coaster, and other heart-pounding activities. I (thus far) am too big a wimp. :)

• dogs
• pub crawls
• traveling
• music
• live music
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• equestrian
• hiking
• sailing
• baseball
• rock climbing
• history
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Waaaaay too many favorite books to list. We are both reading-nerds and savor a good book. Most our shelves are stocked with non-fiction...but you are welcome to visit our "library" should you fancy a borrow.

I particularly have just about every women-friendly, baby-friendly pregnancy and birthing book that has been written. In addition, I have all the DVDs that exist on this topic (Birth as We Know It, Birth Day, Gentle Birth, etc). I currently work as a doula part-time, and a women's health educator part-time, so I love to share these resources with anyone interested. Just ask :)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Nick has seen some pretty amazing sights around the world surfacing out from the ocean on various submarines...I myself was pretty in awe traveling thru Alaska, as well as in love with many parts of the wild wild west. The most spiritually moving places I have spent time were working with women in the poor, rural Chichen Itza area of the Yucatan, and the rural mountainlands of Jamaica. I desperately desire to do more "good" in my travels than just see things. I would like to in some little way make this world a better place, but wouldn't most of us like to do this as well??

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Jamaica, Mexico, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Mexico, United States