1. stay with sy (=crash at sy’s place): sleep in sy’s home
2. to make a long story short: a phrase to use when you feel your story has been too long
3. ended up getting in touch with: contact
4. Let’s hang out for the weekend: spend time together
5. Memories I’ll cherish forever: I will never forget
6. a tour of my favorite spots in my city
7. it was in 2004, with the launch of The CouchSurfing Project, that a verb was coined (to couchsurf) and a mainstream travel trend born.
8. Couchsurfing.com was the brainchild of Casey Fenton, an American web consultant, who …
9. after buying a bargain flight to Iceland, realised that he had no interest in spending his hard-earned greenbacks on “rotting in a hotel all weekend playing Mr Tourist”
10. Fenton came on the idea of spamming a couple of thousand Reykjavik students, …
11. asking whether they’d put him up on their sofas and show him around their home city.
12. Let’s say you’re planning an overnight trip
13. You look up people willing to let you spend the night in their home
14. I’ve only hosted one person, only surfed once, but those experiences were so positive.
15. I wanted to help out
16. I’ve done everything the website recommends to verify my host
17. A referral and verification system helps to ensure potential guests are who they say they are
18. A lot of the stuff you see on the internet is just made up.
19. There’s no way to prove to who that person is until you get there.
20. I tested out my own zipcode
21. willing to give up their couches for the cause
22. I looked up couchsurfing.com
23. The website offers a ton of smart travel and surfing advice
24. Members can vouch for other members they know
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