Secrets to Sleeping on a Stranger’s Couch
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 11.13.06 | 2:56 PM ET
The Associated Press explores several Web sites that help connect travelers with strangers who have sofa space to share, including HospitalityClub.org, CouchSurfing.com and the ambitiously named GlobalFreeloaders.com. “The sites aren’t moneymakers,” the AP reports. “They’re largely the creations of 20-somethings bitten with wanderlust and the hope to help bridge together people from different cultures. They often depend on volunteer administrators to help manage the Web operations.” Traditionally, freeloading has been a local activity, so anyone who can take mooching to a global level has our deep admiration.
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
Biker 11.14.06 | 1:17 PM ET
I think this is a great initiative because it helps people become more receptive the needs of the others that surround them! By allowing a complete stranger to sleep on your sofa it means that you allow him to come and see you in your own micro-universe, the universe in which you rule without caring to much for your privacy; it means that you are a free and relaxed man/woman and that you have nothing to hide! This is the first time I hear about this concept and I’m absolutely thrilled!