May 11, 2007
Meet Globalfreeloaders and Couchsurfing
There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but free beds are increasingly available all over the world. And one of the reasons is the explosive growth of two hospitality organizations called www.globalfreeloaders.com and www.couchsurfing.com. Both of them sign up people who enjoy having or being a foreign guest and allow them to use a spare room or a spare couch for overnight stays -- totally free of charge. And both organizations have elaborate systems for screening out the wrong type of person. Some of them require references and elaborate personal statements. You'll get a kick out of reading their funky websites, and if you're the right kind of person, you may want to use their services either as a guest or as a host.
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