Couchsurfing

So one of the things that has brought me such great success while traveling, is the program Couchsurfing (http://www.couchsurfing.com/)



Anytime I meet cool travelers on the road I try and explain to them what it is all about. If you haven´t read so far about all my couchsurfing experiences, I highly recommend you do (There is a label for most of them on the blog posts)



Here are just some quick facts (as of 1/29/2009)


CouchSurfers
926,326
Successful Surf or Host Experiences
890,502
Friendships Created
1,052,305
Positive Experiences
1,720,574
Countries Represented
231
Cities Represented
53,767





Now just mentally pictures those numbers. There are 231 COUNTRIES represented. Almost 1,000,000 people in the program.

Now check out the map:

http://www.couchsurfing.com/where_are_they.html?large=1



Even if you don´t want to host people, or aren´t traveling....still a great social network to meet new people, and people with amazing thoughts and views!