Couch surfing

Another form of social networking, several sites have popped up to let people connect and find places to stay temporarily while traveling. Yes, it's a couch surfing network on a global scale.

Here's a story about it on CNN:
Need a place to crash? Try a stranger's couch

I'm mostly posting this for Jeff and our encounter with an early adopter of this new trend when we camped a couple summers ago at Rialto. Ah Jodie, the beach slut, you were so ahead of your time.