COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Couch-hopped across Europe a couple years back. All over the place. I once met an elderly lady, maybe in her 70's, that liked me so much she gave me the keys to her summer home on an island in the Aegean Sea!! Couchsurfing is awesome!

Zorba the Greek is now my #2 favorite novel. (Haven't found #1 yet...but Don Quijote is getting close) Also Jidderbug Perfume and all books by that author, The Cave, The Stone Raft (anything by Jose Saramajo really), A Language Older Than Words, The Culture of Make Believe, Ishmael, My Ishmael, all books by Daniel Quinn, The Alchemist, Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy, Lamb, and how about The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies...