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Tacoma, Washington, United States
@joelhines
Member since 2013
CURRENT MISSION Travel the world, meet great new people, and keep an eye on my GPA ABOUT ME I'm a freshman at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. I'm not exactly sure where I'll wind up, but I'm sure I'll enjoy the ride there. PHILOSOPHY We perceive the passage of time by how things have changed. If nothing changes, your life speeds by unacknowledged. Fill your life with variety and difference and you effectively have more time. Spice it up, feel like you live forever. Not to be the stereotypical CSer quoting "Into the Wild" but... "The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. "- Christopher Mccandles
Interested in Adventure Sports
Interested in Cooking
Fluent in English
Learning Spanish
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I've never Couchsurfed or hosted, but I look forward to both at some point.
Music, Movies, and Books
Movies: Wide ranging, everything from documentaries to Wes Anderson films, to Forrest Gump. Books: John Steinbeck, Stephan King, Haruki Marukami, Bill Bryson, Edward Abbey, George R.R Martin, Arthur C Clarke, John Krakauer, Ray Bradbury, Christopher Moore, Cormac McCarthy, Mark Twain, Dave Eggers, Henry David Thoreau,etc. Music: The Fruit Bats,The Lumineers,Fleet Foxes, The Head and the Heart,Jack Johnson,The Front Bottoms,Johnny Cash, Cloud Nothings, Parov Stelar,The Avett Brothers, Blink-182,The Offspring, Grouplove, Modest Mouse, The Killers, Everclear, Sternoway, She and Him, Noah and the Whale, Cat Stevens, The National, The Beatles, Lana Del Rey, The Mowglis, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
One Amazing Thing I've Done
I've hiked the Grand Canyon rim to rim and would do it again in a heartbeat.
Teach, Learn, Share
General wilderness backpacking skills Better than mediocre cooking More facts about the state of Nevada than anybody would care to hear Quality conversation
My Interests
Backpacking, cooking, reading, rock climbing, travel, cinema, video games, kayaking poorly.
