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Published: February 3rd 2008
Saturday was the inaugural meeting for over 30's Couch Surfing members. Lyn, who is a CS Ambassador for Sydney organised the meeting and it was attended by more than 20 CS members, prospective members and travel lovers. It was a fun afternoon talking travel and meeting some new people, including ...
• Robert who had just returned from an epic motorcycle trip through Nepal and Bhutan on a 350cc Royal Enfield.
• Nina who has been traveling in Australia for almost 12 months and is soon to return to Canada,
• Emmanuelle a French teacher who was recently teaching in Syria and now based for 2 years in Sydney.
• Bev who is now retired and set her heart on a new life of travel who came by train from Newcastle (about a 2.5 hour trip) to meet up with us.
• Our host Lyn, who has traveled to about 108 countries and still counting.
Everyone had an interesting story to share and it was good to hear the various reasons that people had for joining CS. For example a few of the people had children and were not able to travel much at the moment but enjoyed hosting travelers because it
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Robert the motorcycle adventurer (L)exposed their children to different cultures and ideas. Others had Couch Surfed their way across the USA or Europe, or had helped others Couch Surf around Australia. A great afternoon!
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Couch Surfing Because the venue is about 80km from our home we decided to attend the meeting and then go out nearby for dinner. Robert, the Bhutan motorcycle adventurer, decided to join us. We found a great, reasonably priced Indian restaurant just up the road. We shared some more stories over dinner and I put on my exhibition of of a human waterfall as the spicy food raised my perspiration level rather significantly.
If you are interested in joining us next month, join CS and come along, it's a great way to meet fellow travelers and make new friends.
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