HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING From May-October there could be a possibility of crashing with us in Maine if interested in also volunteering on the beautiful Maine coast. Contact me for details. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Traveled on shoestring budgets and knocked on strangers doors asking to pitch my tent in their yard before-- never been an "official" couch surfer as of yet- but hoping to test out this network of like-minded and generous folk.

Going on a bicycle trip for two weeks around rural Maine and stopping each day to ask strangers if I could pitch my tent in their yard. I expected some harsh responses, some rejections, some downright psychopaths. Instead I was never turned away, always welcomed, and spent some of the most enriching time in my life learning from these strangers as diverse as a couple of Korean missionaries to a jewelry maker, to an industrial designer. I met a guy who fixed cars while wearing a kilt, a woman from Germany who fed me a picnic lunch, and a fellow that had done everything from take part in a traveling carnival, to tuna fishing, to race car driving. What a beautiful varied world we live in.