Budgeting 101 - Couchsurfing.com
- January 31st 2008
- Saving for your trip
You know me, I’m always trying to figure out how to travel for next to nothing. When I find things that not only save you money but promote cultural understanding and world peace all at the same time, well, its like candy! Enter Couchsurfing.com.Anyone who has been or knows a 20-something vagabond knows what couchsufing it. Its the old, “Hey dude, can I crash at your place on Friday night?” way of finding a place to lay your head. Ok, most of us have done this at some point, including me. When I travel in the US, I always plan my trips around places I know I can find a free place to stay for a night (aka- people I know). When we moved to Chicago, we stayed with everyone from my husband’s highschool friend in Utah to friends of friends in Ames, Iowa. That’s couchsurfing.Couchsurfing.com takes this common practice and makes it an international movement/art form. After registering with their site and getting verified by them (that you’re a real person) you become a member of their couchsurfing community. Then, say, someone is coming to your home town. They post a note saying that they’re looking to couchsurf with someone in your area. If you’ve got a free couch, you reply to their post. Together you work out logistics, etc, and then when they fly in (or however they’re getting there) you pick them up, hang out, let them crash at your place, share some of your life with them, and BINGO- new international friend. Then, when you’re traveling to Boro Boro you do the same thing and meet another new friend. Yay! Lots of new friends. Lots of cultural sharing! Lots of free places to stay for the night!Way cool. Check it out. Register. Host people. Do it now, you know you want to…
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