A Great Way to Travel for Longer

Through the magic of couchsurfing.com Trev and I are going to conserve some major fundage. If you haven't heard of couch surfing, it's this amazing site which aims to hook up young travelers with couches throughout the world in an effort to prolong the traveling experience. When I told my parents about this, they were so jealous that it wasn't around when they traveled since they mainly slept in train stations, parks and caves. On couchsurfing.com users create detailed profiles (similar to Facebook) outlining their traveling experiences and future plans; users are then verified and vouched for through existing friends and surfing experiences thus increasing the security and validity of the site and the surfer. The hosts are required to offer you a couch at the very minimum but most are so stoked on meeting new people that they often take their surfers out to show them the town and meet other locals. This is the part of the trip that we are most looking forward to - getting that local personalized tour of some of the crazy-small off-the-beaten-path towns we plan on visiting. Most couch surfers have an intermediate or expert grasp of English so that eases some nervousness. Anyway, long-story-short, it's an awesome way to save 15 Euro a night and I can't wait to tell you all about our first surfing experience.