There is nothing that compares sharing your experience of a new place with a local. The community that I've built through couchsurfing has changed my life for the better!

--led dissections with 13-year-olds --pet a wallaby, and a hissing cockaroach --taught refugees basic English --hiked the Hawaiian grand canyon --got kids to eat crickets --spent new years eves in Krakow, Poland and Sydney, Australia --night dive on a Bahamian reef