OK... you want to know what CouchSurfing is right?
It's a website that is similar to e-bay. You pick a location on the website that you want to travel to. You look at a couple of profiles, and you e-mail the very giving individuals. You tell them that you are going to be coming to their country, city or towns. These individuals will then let you sleep on their couch or any other accommodations that they have available.
I know this sounds really really REALLY crazy! AND IT IS!
But, isn't life about getting out and exploring? I mean why hide in our houses? Let's go out and see the world. Shake hands of strangers that are no longer strangers. Tell stories, talk trash to each other about their country, and have them talk trash back to you about your country!
The best way to get to know each other, and to really see the heart of the city is to stay with the locals right?
So needless to say. We did this, it was both our first times and it was amazing!
I highly recommend that you guys try this!
Get out and do something different, out of the ordinary and stop trying to be "safe." "safe" is just an imaginary word that we have created anyway to make ourselves feel better about our situations. We do this we relationships, friendships, and our jobs.
Sometimes we just need to let go...
This was one of the craziest knife holders I have ever seen. This was at our couch surfers house, we joked around and laughed about it the whole time, since it was the first thing that we saw when we entered his humble abode.
If everything I said made absolutely NO sense, then read this!
The Big Picture
CouchSurfing is not about the furniture, not just about finding
free accommodations around the world; it's about making connections
worldwide. We make the world a better place by opening our homes,
our hearts, and our lives. We open our minds and welcome the
knowledge that cultural exchange makes available. We create deep
and meaningful connections that cross oceans, continents and
cultures. CouchSurfing wants to change not only the way we travel,
but how we relate to the world!
9 comments:
Dude -- I had heard about that, but forgot about it until I read your post. You're the first person from whom I've read a real, first person account of their experience. It sounds like a ton of fun! Maybe I'll try that one day.
Sounds like a blast!
331: Yeah, I heard it about at the beginning of the year also, forgot, then did it hahah
TW: You have no idea!
That sounds like a lot of fun. Very cool knife holder.
i go couch canoeing!
what's the webpage?
canoes are slow anyway :)
I can't say I would sleep on the couch in a "stranger's" house, especially if they have a big, weird knife collection like that :-)
Then there is no adventure left in you!
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