Open-source travelling

One of the biggest drags about traveling is the sense of being something separate from the place you are visiting. Hotels, restaurants, tourist offices, it’s almost as if the whole experience is conspiring to keep you from getting to know the real thing. That’s why I think that this open-source traveling movement is so cool. Brokered by the internet, people all over the world are offering their spare rooms, couches and kitchens to travelers through sites like Globalfreeloaders.com and Couchsurfing.com.

Now I haven’t had much experience with either site yet, but I’m going to be doing a bit of traveling over the next couple of weeks and plan on using the services extensively. I’ll keep you posted. This could be the greatest revelation since the homemade Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang.

posted by Alex Herder on 27 May 2007
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