HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING Haven't yet. Currently, I'm looking for a place to stay in San Francisco, so I'm filling out my profile. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Zero, Zip, Nada, Zilch! So far, anyway. My dear friend Stan in Austin, has couch-surfed his way through Europe and has had many wonderful experiences and met some wonderful people. I have three friends here in Bakersfield, who host couch surfers, Kimberly Dinsdale, Becky Baker and Julie Jordan Scott. Julie said this morning, that it's been a wonderful experience for her and her family! :-)

One of the amazing things I've done is camping up on the mountain tops of the French Alps. I was living in Belgium at the time, and we used to go camping whenever we travelled to neighboring countries, which was almost every weekend. We drove up the most narrow winding roads in the Alps! So narrow that one car would have to back down when another car approached. It was harrowing in places, at least on my side, the passenger side looking down on the cliff!!! Whew!! Anyway, it was spectacular!! Up there, the spattering of residents don't have any of the amenities after dark, like lights - at least they didn't back then (80's). Sunsets were wonderful there on the top of the world!! I have to add another amazing thing, and that is hot-air ballooning!! When I was married, my husband and I were the ground crew for a couple of friends in Billings, Montana. Flew over the Badlands, Lots of adventures. Way cool!!