Since we are primarily bike touring, we are mainly using Warm Showers (couch surfing for cyclists), but have run out of luck finding hosts in certain cities.... so we are giving couchsurfing a shot! But also we love meeting new people and learning their perspectives on living in their city/ county, we enjoy cooking for others, and just sharing in general (we're also ex cooperative housing folks). We would love to return the good karma of others by hosting in the future, wherever we end up in the California Bay Area : ) We are have with us our touring bikes, tent, and sleeping bags- so we don't even need a bed!

Uh, I'll answer mostly for myself and some for Matt: Music: Magnetic Fields, David Bowie, Tribe Called Quest, Broken Social Scene, Prince, Dave Brubeck, Chet Baker, many others Movies: Weird movies, old movies, and weird old movies. Also some great recent ones we saw were Moonlight, & The Babadook. Matt just loves Amelie. Books: Invisible Man, The People in the Trees, all Toni Morrison