HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING We don't have many opportunities to host, because the little retirement town we live in doesn't get much traffic from out-of-town visitors :) But we try to go to as many CS meetups in our area as we can. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Mike - In France, I was given a place to stay for a couple nights with some people I had just met. They lived on the top floor of a large apartment building downtown Paris. We climbed up on the roof, admired the town/stars and drank wine while listening to Ben Harper (who was apparently all the rage as they couldn't get enough of him).Mike did some major surfing in Egypt and Europe in the summer of 2009 and met a lot of awesome people- it was an incredible experience. Same for a summer 2010 road trip - the favorite cities were the ones in which time was spent hanging out with local surfers.

~music: Collective Soul, AC/DC, Bon Jovi, Parov Stellar and oodles more~movies: Everything sci-fi, The Princess Bride, Gone in 60 Seconds, Italian Job(Comment from Mike: Let's not forget Pulp Fiction)~books: Atlas Shrugged, Neuromancer, Ready Player One, the Ender's Game series, The Dark Tower