CURRENT MISSION

If wisdom is knowledge through experience, we are, currently, seeking experience

ABOUT ME

Our mothers were friends in the 70s and we became (reluctantly) friends after canoeing through Wabakimi Provincial Park in Northern Canada the summer after out Junior year in High School. Since then, we have (both together and apart) taken to the wilderness, adventures, and meeting new people in new places. Earlier this summer (over a box of Franzia and some corn on the cob at a BBQ, during a day off from leading youth on canoeing and backpacking trips) we decided we both wanted a break from insitituional education and decided that we would really rather be experiencing the world and decided that there was no good reason not to travel to New Zealand on the meager wages we make doing our jobs.

So, though we have never been couch surfing hosts, we are (very much so) hoping to see as much and meet as many people as we can during our travels and are quite exicted to, hopefully, return the favor once (if...) we get back to the states

PHILOSOPHY

"I am lost, and I rejoice in the openness. I cannot decide where to go, so for now, I will dance where I am and be. There is no goal, no destination, just wilderness and life and being. I sing and dance and live in the wilderness, and I am home" -Dance of the Tzipora

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Currently, we are hoping to be couch surfers. However, once our travels are over and we have somewhat permanent residency (next fall! in Portland, Oregon!) we would love to be hosts as well!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Little to none (yikes!)

Interests

Canoeing, wool socks, hummus, reducing our carbon footprints, wine and beer (respectively), early 90s hip hop, the mountains, running, reading, and learning.

• singing
• dancing
• education
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• bbq
• running
• reading
• traveling
• backpacking
• canoeing
• surfing
• boxing
• anthropology
• teaching
• history
• mountains

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Tatty:
Canoed the Kunwak river in Nunavut, Canada

Dana:
lived in Honduras for a semester, paddled the Noatak River in Alaska, stood ten feet away from a bear

Teach, Learn, Share

Tatty:
1. The history of hip hop
2. American political rhetoric
3. Literary analyses of James Joyce, Dave Eggers, Mark Twain, etc.
4. Whitewater canoeing technique
5. Cooking, esp. pancake making
6. Anything enriching, esp. get to know you games

Dana:
1. spanish
2. gender identity and anthropology
3. reducing greenhouse gas emissions
4. how to drive a stick
5. curry
6. the french inhale