CURRENT MISSION

To live exactly as we want to.

ABOUT ME

We're a married couple. We like food and cooking (well Patricia likes cooking-Justin likes eating). We aren't big party goers-we prefer to be around each other and walk streets late at night with coffee in hand. The most important thing in our life is to remain happy and all of our pursuits have this purpose in mind-be it reading for long hours, or hiking till we're sore, discovering hole in the wall cafes, or riding our bikes at all hours.

We are really really really interested in natural building and all its forms i.e. cob, adobe brick, rammed earth, dry masonry, etc. We worked on a cob dormitory in Thailand Nov. 2011 and it piqued our interest in houses you can build by yourself using sustainable and practical means to make it. March/April 2012 we worked on building a straw bale library also in Thailand and for the month of June we helped a family in Estonia start the frame for their straw bale house.

PHILOSOPHY

Fun til death. We do what we do to remain happy and strive to live in the moment.

Interests

Reading, cooking food, hiking, riding our mountain bikes on crazy trails, talking for long hours, swimming and jumping off cliffs, camping-campfires!, going to the gym, being happy, cob building, natural building, reciprocal roofs, organic gardening, bee keeping, squatting, learning more about the world around us and traveling to fulfill that.

• dining
• cooking
• coffee
• partying
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• hiking
• camping
• swimming
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

movies: Beowulf, Snatch, Nightmare before Christmas, Penelope, Inception,

Music: The Decemberists, Santigold, Jolie Holland, The Blow, Cat Power, Freezepop, Jack Johnson, Joanna Newsome, Modest Mouse, Kings of Leon, A perfect circle, 3 doors down, Gypsy Kings, Buena Vista Social Club

Books: Mostly fantasy-Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, Steven Erikson's The Malazan Book of the Fallen series, Brandon Sanderson-The Way of Kings-The Mistborn Trilogy-Warbreaker-Elantris.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Justin did a double blackflip off a rope swing, Patricia hitchhiked the US by herself, we've lived in the Everglades and worked on a farm or two, lived in our pt cruiser and then our truck for a while, seen clouds come down to lick the edge of mountains we were standing on.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Estonia, France, Italy, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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