Category: The Sofasphere

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Bring on the Scandinavians!

This is the latest installment of my on-going narrative of my experience with Couchsurfing. The full story can be found here.  Were I to list my favorite couchsurfers to host, those hailing from Denmark, Sweden, and Norway would be the…

Repaying the Debt: Hosting Surfers of My Own

This is the latest installment of my on-going narrative of my experience with Couchsurfing. The full story can be found here.  My First Surfers: Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.A. Upon returning from backpacking in Europe, and my wonderful experience with Andrew fresh…

Kindred Road Conversation

My friend and former coworker, Mike, started his own website, Kindred Road. The tagline is, “Great Education through Simple Conversation.”  Well, as it happens, one of those conversations was with yours truly, so go on over to his site and…

The Lad from Leeds

This is my 100th post to 80couches.com. I, for one, cannot think of a better way to commemorate the occasion than a post dedicated to my first steps into the world of Couchsurfing. I have decided to dedicate a page…

Couch Season is Open!

During my first 5 months here in Korea, I only hosted one couchsurfer–Mark–and that was nearly accidental. (Several hours of noraebang and copious amounts of alcohol usually necessitate a place to crash). Well, in the last month or so, business…