Hi. I try to read a book a week (fast reader), like the outdoors and am both a travel buff and a news junkie (read: bit of a policy wonk). If you like “The Daily Show”, then we’ll get along fine. I’m hopeless at languages, but really good at logic puzzles… and very easily amused. I consider myself a fun, easy-going person with a fairly broad range of interests. I love to travel (my last trips were to Mongolia, Norway and Spain) and Lecce, Italy is next on my hitlist. I’m equally happy just hanging out with friends (I’ve a pretty close group), hiking with my dog, catching a movie, joking around or enjoying a good conversation and a glass of wine.

I’ve traveled extensively and eclectically (visited all 7 continents; including the geographic North Pole, Bumthang harvest festival in Bhutan, and Lofoten Islands), held a moon rock in the lunar lab at Johnson Space Center (long story) and once managed to get lost by driving 150 km the wrong way on Highway 1 in Iceland, aka the ONLY major highway in Iceland (longer story). I’m looking for someone equally adventurous.

International trade

Books:

“The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” by Michael Chabon (How can you not love any book with a involving the golem as a central myth/metaphor?)

“The Secret History” by Donna Tartt (So very southern gothic, despite being set in New England)

“A Prayer for Owen Meany” by John Irving

“My Kind of Place” and “The Bullfighter Checks her Makeup” by Susan Orlean (the former includes an essay that inspired me to travel to Bhutan)

Movies:
“Lost in Translation”
“The Shawshank Redemption”
“Rushmore”
“Memento”

TV shows:
“House”
“Law & Order” reruns (only the original L&O, the spinoffs just aren’t the same)
“So You Think You Can Dance” (American version only; it’s my guilty pleasure)

Music:
Blue Rodeo, Tragically Hip, Indigo Girls,

Food:
Soup dumplings (the Shanghai kind, with the soup on the inside)
Sacher torte
Peeps (preferably the pink ones)

Intangible:
1) Love and affection

Tangible:
2) My next trip abroad
3) GPS (gives my life direction)
4) Book or Kindle
5) My basset hound
6) iPhone

My next vacation (I love planning trips, looking forward to trips, anything to do with travel, really)
Hoping my basset hound is not sleeping on the (lovely, antique, inlaid, teak) dining room table while I am at work

I'm a non-practicing geologist. And I once (literally) lost a day in Paris.

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