Monday, December 15, 2008

Have couch will travel

Big Frank still has vacation on his mind. There is nothing like winter cold to get one thinking of travelling to warm places. What Big Frank has been doing is looking into alternative ways to travel: alternatives to standard accommodations and alternatives to the standard site seeing approach to travel. With that in mind here's one good option: couchsurfing!

Check out their great site couchsurfing.org Here is a place with almost a million members worldwide where you can find people to host you for free. The site is set up in such a way where you can select a city, state, or country and then see who is offering their couch for you to sleep on. Many offer much more than a couch – your own bedroom for example. Many also offer to show you around too. You have the option of joining and offering to host people that come to your town as well. It has lots of security precautions including choice of which gender to host, how many people, references, and pictures of the person, their home, and even their couch. Big Frank has signed up and is now available to host all you readers when you come to Spokane: Near Nature Near Perfect – as the town boosters proudly say. So check it out. And . . . get your reservations in early - the couch is waiting, and so is Big Frank!

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