HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I have hosted many interesting travelers at my beach cottage, thrown a number of beach bonfire parties for CSers, been involved in CS events in Seattle (like the 2009 Scavenger Hunt and Halloween party). I have Couch Surfed in Puerto Rico, and most recently spent a month in the Czech Republic getting to know the CSers there (great group). COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE While living in Japan for a year I would often travel around, and of course meet many other travelers. My favorite thing to do was invite them to come back to my sleepy fishing village and experience a corner of Japan they would never be able to get to on their own. I would take them hiking on the mountain next to my house then we would head to a tiny Okonomiyaki restaurant run by a woman who lived right upstairs. We were definitely the only foreigners who ever ate there, and the old grandpas got a kick out of it.

"The Potent Self" by Moshe Feldenkrais