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Cracking Small Talk: A Couchsurfer’s Guide

Every Couchsurfer in the world knows the routine.  Some stranger has just pulled you off the foreign chaos of the streets and planted you into their equally alien home.  They’ve given you the tour, showed you where to put your … Continue reading

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The Costs of Free Couches

It can be momentarily disconcerting. You wake up curled upon someone’s favorite sofa, in a room cluttered with unrecognizable furniture, travel bags, and walls sporting collages of personal photographs. Your fingers explore the sofa’s network of leather cracks as you … Continue reading

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