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

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've never Couchsurfed or hosted, but I look forward to both at some point.

Interests

Backpacking, cooking, reading, rock climbing, travel, cinema, video games, kayaking poorly.

• cooking
• movies
• video games
• reading
• traveling
• backpacking
• kayaking
• rock climbing

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

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Canada, Costa Rica, Fiji, France, Italy, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States