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the internet is awesome – Couch Surfing

// April 16th, 2009 // No Comments » // miscellaneous, online, what?!

Okay, so this has to be the coolest thing…EVER.

With that said, at first I didn’t take it seriously. One day I tried out one of those sites that check to see if your username is taken on various networks. I had already used ‘mepriestley’ for all of the major sites like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Blogger, etc. There was a whole list of very obscure sites, some that I’d heard of, but even more that I hadn’t heard of. I figured, eh, why not? There might arise a situation where I need the account and I’d like to have my usual username. Plus, I’d rather it be me that comes up for ‘mepriestley’ then someone else.

One of those sites was CouchSurfing.com. I filled out the sign-up information, but left my “couch” closed for the time being. It happens that my friend, Kevin, just recently used CouchSurfing to stay with a whole group of people in Norway. He said it was great. Of course, this instantly reminded me of my profile and I decided to look into the whole thing a little closer.

I started searching for surfers and reading reviews and profiles. The whole thing is very impressive. What’s more exciting is that I have been really itching to take John (and possibly his boys) to DC this summer. I love DC and they haven’t really been anywhere. I think this trip might actually be possible with CouchSurfing. There’s quite a few reliable people in the area, as well as a very affordable National Park in case that doesn’t work out. On a side note, I couldn’t believe that there is a really nice National Park with camping, showers, etc. within 10 miles of DC (1 mile from the subway).

As I get back on topic, I love that there is a site like CouchSurfing.com out there. I have been somewhat disappointed at how closed off people can seem. I am so excited to see that people reach out to host and surf around the world. I can’t wait to host our first surfer (if anyone ever needs to actually come to or go through Bradford). Even more, I can’t wait to try surfing and see all of the things that John and I want to see, but can’t necessarily afford otherwise. Yay!


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