RE: How I Met Toni 🇬🇧 Join "People We Met While Traveling" Contest in Steem-Travelers!
Man, you've got the talent. Reading it is like reading a book - you know how to manage with the words. Chapeau Bas!
Friendships from the journey, from Couchsurfing, hostels, or hitchhiking together can revolutionary change our world. I know that very well - I have a life partner who I met in a hostel in Valparaiso over 3 years ago :)
Once under one of the publications we were saying (I think it was with you, forgive me if I am wrong) that even if we would really love that, it's impossible to visit every place in the world. Meeting people from different cultures and different countries makes it partially possible. We may not be physically in all those countries, cities, and towns where they are from, but by getting to know travelers like Toni, we somehow discover their homeland without visiting it.
PS: remember about leaving the link to the entry under the contest post ;)
Thank you!
over 3 years ago
A long term, great to hear it.
Once under one of the publications we were saying (I think it was with you
It was. Meeting travelers is a way of traveling, true. This is what I did first before I started my wanders - I was a host on couchsurfing. I met nice people from there and got a close friend too (from Moscow this time). It is pity that the time I don't travel - 2020-2021 - meeting travelers is not possible too. CS demands payment "because of covid" - probably, they want me to pay to make me see that nobody is in the city.
Yes, true. I was a couchsurfer too. I was hosting (more) and using while traveling (less). I quit when they changed their policy. I mean I could accept the payment for the travelers but at the end I was hosting only and I didn't think it's fair. Paying bigger bills and buying extra food for my guests is something I'm okay with, but additional fee for the international website? not really
I understand you.
Step by step, they have killed the website. So searching for alternatives is relevant. I got an account on trustroots.org but not many people from Russia there (some in Western Europe) - wrong time for such platforms. So new ones can't grow and the old one is dead - killed by the management. :( Sad.