Because you can stay with local people and share stories. I love it when there are surfers at our place and had actually nothing but positive experiences :) Also it is nice to have a personal relation to the city you visited, because you had a home there, not a hotel.

My music taste goes from indie to metal, acoustic, blues, techno, tekno, rock to disney songs or classical music. I love to read, most of the time i get them from other people or open bookshelves, so there are a lot of different kinds of books I am reading.. And I am still working on reading all the books I have already :)