Hello! I'm Amanda and am an incredibly open individual who thinks and acts in her own crazy, adventurous ways. I am a southern girl (born and bred) who has recently made the pioneering trek out west to live in the beautiful expanse of southern colorado. I am a good ole fashioned woman who loves being outdoors, reading by a fire, long conversations, straight up whiskey, and listening to bluegrass played in the middle of the woods. Well, actually I'm not that old fashioned but I do enjoy the simple pleasures of life.

I just moved here to southern Colorado from my home in North Carolina and am now living and working at a ranch. I am trained as an archaeologist and anthropologist and am always looking for ways to do either. I love learning about people and their customs from the past or in the present and am always looking to try something new. I yearn to be in the middle of wilderness but also enjoy exploring the crazy, hectic world of large cities.

Listening to people's life stories and jumping into crazy situations head first. I love going to new places and meeting new people but sometimes I need the comfort of sitting in silence with someone I care for. I'm really good at being independent and am working on how to share life's adventures with someone else.

my sunny, confident energy.

Books, authors, anthropologists, to name only a few: Cold Mountain, Into the Wild, The Lord of the Rings series, Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau (gotta love the Transcendentalists), Sophocles, Euripides, Ovid, Shakespeare, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, occasionally Hemingway, too many anthropologists to name: Levi-Strauss, Derrida, Descola, Timothy Insoll, Ian Hodder... Right now, I am reading Love in the Time of Cholera. Love it.

Movies: Ride with the Devil, The Count of Monte Cristo, Galaxy Quest, She's Just not the into you, Casablanca, The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons, Cadillac Records, Oh Brother where art thou, Snatch, the original Planet of the Apes, Star Wars, and Indiana Jones (dont even bother with the newer ones), The Mission, True Grit, 3:10 to Yuma, Snatch, and the X-Men series (sometimes Spiderman), Ondine, The River Why, and anything and everything Wes Anderson

TV: Hell on Wheels, True Blood, Game of thrones, How I met your mother, big bang theory, dr. quinn medicine woman, man vs. wild

Music: The decemberists, bob marley, damien marley, buena vista social club, the civil wars, the avett brothers, putumayo, noir desir, la rue ketanou, the carolina chocolate drops, the rolling stones, fleetwood mac, creedence clearwater, the tallest man on earth, iron and wine, old crow medicine show, doc watson, stanley brothers, alison krauss, dave rawlings, tinariwen, yann tiersen, yeah yeah yeahs, snow patrol, shakira, sigur ros, ratatat, the raconteurs, the white stripes, jack white, postal service, im from barcelona, edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros, gogol bordello, gyptian, sierra leone refugees, mumford and sons, manu chao, lousi armstrong, ella fitzgerald, al green, marvin gaye, lightnin hokins, kings of leon, james taylor, jose gonzalez, jacques brel, frankie and dino, edith piaf, bon iver, bob dylan, black keys, billy bragg wilco, benny goodman, beirut, alexi murdoch, arcade fire-- ok i need to stop now. but seriously all i have been listening to nonstop lately is trampled by turtles. go check them out now.

Food: anything and everything. I adore cooking and love to experiment with new recipes and concoctions.

1. my memories--these form the basis of who i am.
2. water, earth, and air
3. my family and close friends (who i consider to be family)
4. a mode of transportation
5. coffee coffee coffee
6........

too many things all at once. and the ways people communicate. and how much i want to learn to play mandolin and banjo.

You want to get to know me beyond just my picture and are willing to share about yourself. I am not looking for just casual sex so don't waste your time.