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The Sofa Surfing Handbook: A Guide for Modern Nomads

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Everything you need to know when surfing the sofa circuit. From knowing when to leave your current crash, to how to thank your hosts. Once I picked up this book, I could not put it down. Make no mistake, this book gives the good, the bad, and the ugly of the sofa surfer life stlye. This book tells you everything you need to know. From what to pack, to how to take care of O.P.P (other people's pets), to how to get free food on the road. I would like to write more on the greatness of this book, but I need to go pack my bags and hit the open road. See you there!

Your adventures are bound to put you in situations never encountered before, this is the perfect book to give you a heads up in staying safe and sane throughout every couch surfing expedition. The chapters are peppered with quick humorous anecdotes with lots of attitude. One big focus of the book is insuring a future couch reservation with your current host. This is achieved through consideration for your host. Tips include a lot of common courtesy but also some things I wouldn't have thought of on my own. The parts I found most informative were handling a buggy house and the safety issues. Roaches hang out in dark, warm, seldom used ovens so when you turn on the oven to bake your host brownies as a thank you for the couch, it could end up looking like a scene from a Stephen King novel with all the critters bailing onto the floor and up the counters. As for safety, don't tell strangers more than they need to know; predators prey off polite people. I did drop one star because there was no advice on broaching the "can I crash" question, or who may be more likely to say yes. But other than that it was a fun book to read and it conveniently fit perfectly into my purse. Traveling is one of life's best ways to gain perspective on the world and if you can do it on the cheap all's the better.

Once I started reading this book, I could not put it down! If you have little to no money, but still want to be able to see the world, this is your bible. Everything is here, from the perils of going Greyhound, to knowing when to leave the house you are crashing at, to helpful advice to help avoid the cops, a list of items that you MUST have with you when you travel, 10 jobs that are easy to get and quit, and much much more. My favorite part envolved then ins and outs of camping in your car. Buy this book!