After 7 days, 14 states, and 3,800 miles, Ali and I have finally made it to California. As we search for jobs/an apartment, we're housesitting for Ali's uncle in Gilroy, CA - the Garlic Capitol of the World. There are horses next door!
We highly recommend you all check out couchsurfing.com whenever you travel next. It's an international social network - kind of like myspace/facebook - where people open up their homes for travelers. We stayed with an Ohio State post-doc in Columbus who was extremely accomodating, lending us a bedroom and giving us a campus tour! No money changes hands - people simply open up their couches, floors, spare bedrooms, etc. It's a great way to meet people in the places you visit.
Of course you have to be careful, but it can be done safely (i.e. you can choose female-only and/or households of couples). These days we can be kind of paranoid as a society, and we can expect the worst of strangers - it's kind of sad, really, because it makes people cold and distant. Anyway, I think couchsurfing is one great way to avoid that. Check it out.
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Sweet. Couchsurfing is pretty awesome... We did it while we were in Scotland last year. Of course, we bought the guy a bottle of scotch that was almost as much as a room anyway, but it was totally worth it to talk politics at breakfast.
i'm glad you guys made it safely! When were you in Columbus? we slept there on thursday on the way to cincinnati for wedding 1 and had some very loud neighbors in the $40 hotel (not boning, fighting)
We were in Columbus on Thursday, too!
well that's an unfortunate lack of communication on our parts. lets not let it happen again ever!
<3 to you both
hehe yeah I've heard about couchsurfing. you can rate the people you stay with, right? maybe I should just randomly do it around here and make up a traveling cover story...
HOLY CRAP! You guys have an 07 blog? That is a singularly fantastic idea. (This is Goff, btw.) I've got tabs on a few people in 08 keeping blogs, too, if you'd like a list. Nana and I are at schoolofROK.blogspot.com. We're not really posting until we get to Korea, but come August 1 (or shortly thereafter), that'll be your source for Nana-and-Justin goodness. In the meantime, hope the world's treating you well!
Whoops. Clearly I meant 06. Numberpad + sausagefingers = dangerous mix.
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