Posts Tagged ‘couchsurfing’
OTP’s Guide to Couchsurfing Like a Pro
With over one million members worldwide, Couchsurfing, a free-to-use network that connects travelers with locals, allows travel enthusiasts to safely flop around on each others’ international couches. Sign up as a host, a surfer, or both. If you play the game well, you can get a free place to sleep with the added benefit of a [...]
Travel Dork: D Travels Round
What do you do when you’re 30 and you wake up, realizing you are not living the life you ever imagined? That’s the question that Diana Edelman asked herself in early 2010, after a brief stint on the beaches of Croatia reminded her of the glory beyond corporate life as a publicist. Taking her 30-life [...]
Travel Dork: Keith Savage, Traveling Savage
Travel Dork: Keith Savage Keith Savage’s, “Traveling Savage,” captures the spirit of backpacking and adventure-driven travel better than most out there. Even if Keith just got lucky with a name like that, there’s nothing tame about this savage—not his content, not his diction, not his ability to encapsulate all things wild and wonderful about travel. [...]
Backpackers Guide 101: Hostels + Couches
As a backpacker, you’ll be sleeping at hostels, on strangers’ couches or possibly camping out. Although hostels are not as common in the United States, they are a popular option in most places around the world. And now, with the ever growing world of couch surfing, you have the option of sleeping at the homes [...]
Free Travel Opportunity!
Couchsurfing.com is hiring! Those clever couch-lovers have come up with new and interesting ways to improve their couchsurfing community. Every year, for roughly six month stretches, they set up a collective in some part of the world (the current collective is in Costa Rica). These collectives (really like a temporary office) are made up of [...]
