CURRENT MISSION

Enjoy life!!! Experience the amazingly diverse and fantastic world! Spread joy and love through crazy connections! Learn with open eyes

ABOUT ME

we are rachel and joel, both 24. back from a massive year long excursion abroad, and then 14 countries later: a beautiful voyage across the states enjoying our chosen families and their enormous hospitality. it's great to have a bed again for the first time in almost 2 years! we love our new spot, the pacific gleams through our bedroom window. working on an organic farm, pursuing many interests, and always making time for good music with good friends...even when implausible distance is involved :)

PHILOSOPHY

wake up and live...all you need is love...if its not fun why do it?...manifest destiny...expect the unexpected...be the change you wish to see in the world

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

great times. hosting and being hosted.

Interests

we enjoy music, silliness, all things outside, passionate conversations, wine and beer, delicious vegetarian food, dancing all night, extraordinary sights, smiling, sleeping and relaxing, sunshine and basking in it, museums, photography, alternative medicine, crystals and other natural wonders, and of course we love meeting new people. It is important to gain perspective through others opinions. we are determined to provide proof of conscious loving americans to the rest of the world!

• photography
• dancing
• dining
• wine
• beer
• vegetarian
• yoga
• music
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

hmmm. music, modern classics like bob marley, bob dylan, pink floyd, grateful dead, beatles, led zep, jimi, talking heads, paul simon, motown, radiohead, joni mitchell, jazz and then lots of craziness...the awesomeness of aesop rock, bjork, les claypool, and a million others...we love electronica bands, DJ's especially dubstep, drum and bass, house, soul, funk, dubtron, specifically sphongle, ana sia, bassnectar, ltj bukem, karsh kale, rjd2, groove armada, disrupt, bill laswell, pendulum, prefuse 73, squarepusher. ALWAYS looking for new music to widen our horizons!

books: be here now, breaking open the head, 2012, the beach, great gatsby, anything by chuck palahniuk, crime and punishment, lolita, the glass bead game, all works by HUNTER S. THOMPSON, cookbooks and travel books (especially World Party: A Rough Guide to the World's Best Festivals), collections of poetry pablo neruda, langston hughes and shel silverstein particularly...plus the other 99.999% of things we enjoyed reading

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

too difficult. it has all been amazing.

Teach, Learn, Share

Joel makes silver wire wrapped jewelry using gemstones. we know way too much about crystals and we carry some with us (kinda crazy, we understand). we can help people understand what the states are really like. we love sharing random tidbits of info...nutrition, yoga, music, and of course epic experiences.