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Porter

Age:

Gender:

Female

If you must know:

I'm single

Travel status:

Traveling now

Hometown:

Thousand Oaks, California

Currently in:

Moab, Utah

Favorite places I've been:

the desert Southwest, Portland, Oregon, Siena, Italy, Moab, Utah, Vienna, Austria, Hood River, Oregon, Cataract Canyon, Mount Adams, Smith Rocks, The Harvest Panel in the Maze, Utah

Places I want to go to:

Thailand, Chile/Patagonia, India, Europe, Morocco, the South, Vancouver, British Columbia, Denali National Park, Alaska, China, Japan, Bhutan, anywhere in Africa, Antartica, the Himalayas

About me:

I haven't paid rent in a year and spend most of my nights sleeping on the ground, or on friends' couches. I'm an Outward Bound instructor in Moab, Utah, which means I get paid to go canyoneering, whitewater rafting, backpacking, climbing... I love working with students and teaching in the wilderness. I live out of my car, so I feel like I'm on a perpetual road, or backpacking/rafting, trip - I love freedom, mobility, independence, and helping others to see the world in a new way.

I also really like dark chocolate and coffee. Chocolate-covered espresso beans might be the key to my heart...

Profile URL:

http://matadortravel.com/travel-community/porter

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I'm fired up on:

dark chocolate, canyoneering, sleeping under the stars, environmental history of the American West, dark beer, landscape architecture, doing yoga on top of sandstone towers, cooking big gourmet dinners, writing opinionated environmental/historical/outdoor articles/essays/papers, wingate cliffs, the redrock desert, good red wine, rafting, black jelly beans, teaching outdoor stuff to my students, playing in the mud, cloud-watching

Tunes I rock out to:

Storyhill, Hot Buttered Rum String Band, The Rolling Stones, Old Crow Medicine Show, Jaymay, Josh Ritter, Jeffrey Foucault, Mana, Matt Costa, Ben Harper, Tony Furtado, the Top Gun soundtrack, Kris Kristofferson, Greg Brown, Railroad Earth, Robert Earl Keene Jr, Dar Williams, James Brown, Dave Matthews, Dispatch, The Consumption Hooks, Marshall Tucker Band, Cowboy Junkies, Outkast, Wilco

Travel style:

I like to travel (and live) simply: everything I own fits in my car (which I live out of most of the year) and everything I need fits in a pack or a drybag.

Quote:

"For as far as I can see, the canyon country of southern Utah extends in all directions. No compass can orient me here, only a pledge to love and walk the terrifying distances before me. What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of my control, unnamed, beyond my reasonable self. I desire it because passion has color, like the landscape before me. It is not pale. It is not neutral. It reveals the backside of the heart."
~Terry Tempest Williams

Sports I do:

canyoneering, rock climbing, rafting, running, biking, yoga

Favorite artist(s):

Ansel Adams, Frederick Law Olmsted, Georgia O'Keefe, Michael Fatali, Thomas Cole, Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, Michelangelo, Leonardo DaVinci, Brunelleschi, Aaron Vandenberg and Laura Content!

Favorite books:

Desert Solitaire, The Sea Runners, Clearing in the Distance, The Anthropology of Turquoise, Dancing at the Rascal Fair, Angle of Repose, Grapes of Wrath, Wilderness and the American Mind, The Prophet, The Man Who Planted Trees

Who I'd like to meet on my travels:

anyone and everyone, people who share a passion for the outdoors

I want to make a difference by:

helping people rethink their attitude toward wilderness; instigating a change in the American lifestyle; inspiring my students toward personal growth and an appreciation for the natural world.

Languages spoken, other than English:

Italian, some Spanish

I felt the most immersed in a foreign culture when:

I stop feeling like I'm in a foreign culture.

Why I travel:

to become more educated and open-minded; because the world's just too big to stay in one place forever.

Ideal place to watch the sunrise:

The Dolls House, Cataract Canyon, Utah.

Ideal place to watch the sunset:

On the top of Off Balanced Rock after climbing it with friends.

Before I die I'd like to:

learn to play the guitar.

Let's collaborate:

I'm a writer - travel, environmental, historical, essay, outdoor stuff. I've been published in small stuff, and I'm working on publishing my undergraduate thesis in a historical journal.

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by Gredah | 2008/08/27

I am happy to see that someone else loves Utah's desert as much as me.

by eappleyard | 2007/05/14

i see that you are instructing your first OB course. interesting. tell me how it was!

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