自我介绍

I love living in Portland. I get to ride my bike around town most days or work on house or yard projects. I usually do a range of sports during the week depending on the time of year--including basketball, soccer, ultimate frisbee, running and cycling. However, my biggest sports passions are kitesurfing, rock climbing, and slacklining. I've been climbing for over 20 years and have put up many new climbing routes around Portland over the years. Depending on the time of year, I will have a slackline set up in the backyard. If you've never tried it, it's unlike any other balance sport...basically a single line trampoline that feels impossible at first, but is actually quite manageable after a bit of practice. I like gardening and have spent the last 10 years or so transplanting and cultivating trees, shrubs and sedums at the house. There are all sorts of perennial edibles here--cherry, plum, persimmon, fig, blueberry, huckleberry, strawberry, pear, grape, asparagus, kiwi and raspberry. Feel free to sample anything that's in season! I lived in Bolivia for a couple of years while I was in the Peace Corps and have traveled to about 50 countries since then. I like being an adventure traveler and enjoy hosting other travelers and visitors as well. I bought this house back in 2006 and it was practically unlivable. Then once I decided to replace all the plumbing, it was unlivable for about 3 months. doh! But that was years ago. These days, I continue to work on smallish projects around the house, whether it's transplanting my bamboo, adding a new gravel path, refinishing the 100yr old fir floors, planning a new garden bed, or building a covered bike storage area out of recycled materials.