She found a peaceful life spinning wool and is creating an ecological handsewn wardrobe for her family - and hopefully future guests as well, by crowdfunding a property purchase to revolutionize sustainable travel where locally made clothing is provided to the responsible traveler.

You can read more about the project here. She also blogs about life crafted by hand

1. When did you arrive in Hungary and what brought you here?
In December 2005 my husband and I arrived to Szeged where we lived with his father for about five months. We moved out to our tanya in April 2006 and life has been simply pleasant ever since. My husband and I married in Las Vegas, so I guess one could say that love and adventure brought me here.

2. Have you ever been an expatriate elsewhere?
Not yet.

3. What surprised you most about Hungary?
How few people speak English, though you can still be astonished even in a village.

4. Friends are in Budapest for a weekend - what must they absolutely see and do?
They must eat at Kiskakukk, the best restaurant with incredible service. Racking my brain trying to think of a clever answer, but I have never really been a tourist in the city, in fact I haven't been to Budapest more than ten times, ever.

5. What is your favourite Hungarian food?
Would it be strange if I said tepertő? After six years of life on the tanya I can also make a pretty mean paprikás too.

6. What is never missing from your refrigerator?
Tejföl and Italian butter.

7. What is your favourite Hungarian word?
Csütörtök, one of the first words I learned to say.

8. What do you miss the most from home?
Good Wisconsin cheese and micro beers from the Portland area.

9. What career other than yours would you love to pursue?
Owner of an inn, in the quiet of the countryside, that caters to writing retreats and also to ecological clothing workshops.

10. What's a job you would definitely never want?
Bus driver.

11. Where did you spend your last vacation?
A few years ago my husband and I took the train to Bad Ischl, it is about time to go somewhere, sometime soon...

12. Where do you hope to spend your next one?
Actually I would like to go walking in the Highlands of Scotland. I was born a McPherson and some hundred plus years ago my ancestors emigrated from there - and Sweden.

13. What was your favourite band, film, or hobby as a teen?
Oddly enough I really liked The Cars, but I spent more time outside than anything being quite involved in Girl Scouts.

14. What can't you resist?
A good Mexican restaurant with spicy food.

15. Red wine or white?
Merlot.

16. Book or movie?
Books, I haven't owned a television in seven years and the internet connection is slow. Words are the way to the world.

17. Morning person or night person?
Morning. 5 a.m.

18. Which social issue do you feel most strongly about?
Providing women with healthy, ecological friendly jobs that teach skills such as knitting, spinning and weaving - rather than hoeing or working in poly-houses where crops are sprayed with pesticides and insecticides.

19. Buda side or Pest side?
Buda.

20. What would you say is your personal motto?
You can achieve what your mind can perceive.