CouchSurfing, a revolution in cultural travel

So once again we had another wonderful experience through the generosity of complete strangers. This time it was a fantastic day of sailing with Jerry, a retired electrical engineer living in Fort Lauderdale. How did we meet Jerry? Through CouchSurfing. If you haven’t heard of CouchSurfing already, check it out, it’s pretty incredible. The basics are: you sign up on their website to open up your home (if you have one) to weary travelers- or be available to meet people for a drink or just offer helpful information about things to see around the area. Then as you travel, you get to enjoy the same hospitality being offered by others. There are CouchSurfers all over the world, and we intend to have this amazing network better our travels. You get to meet wonderful people, and who better to show you around a country or city than someone who actually lives there?

So on Friday, along came the Westerly winds and we were able to take advantage of them. A beautiful day out on the Atlantic, cutting through the water on Jerry’s 22’ sailboat. We’ve also met a few other CSers, like MaryBeth, who does a lot of great environmental work and even invited us over for dinner. By the time we take off on our boat hopefully we will have met a few more!