John Haines grew up in Laramie, Wyoming, graduated from the University of Wyoming and began a life of worldwide adventure which he details in his book “Never Leaving Laramie - Travels in a Restless World.” He attributes his spirit of adventure to being raised on the high plains of the Cowboy State. But later in life, after a tragic accident on a train platform in the Czech Republic, he became a “lucky quadriplegic.”