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If you want to host more cyclists, check out WarmShowers. It's still in a nascent stage with a decent community thus far.
by nether 11y ago
If you want to host more cyclists, check out WarmShowers. It's still in a nascent stage with a decent community thus far.
- HKimmel 11y agoWarmShowers sounds like some sort of sexual fetish. No thanks.
- catshirt 11y agoall about perspective, I guess. as someone who has toured foreign continents living out of a van for a month at a time, it sounds like a warm shower to me.
- cyrus_ 11y agoI don't know how to put this nicely, but warding off people with reactions like this seems like a feature, not a bug.
- contingencies 11y agoCool. Sort of feel like I had heard of that somehow, must have been a few years ago. Actually my family were thinking of buying some recumbent bikes and cycling this trip in Europe (3 months looking for a new house) but couldn't get enough info quick enough to make it happen. Kind of sux, but we're still keen. If you have any recommendations for places that stock or build custom recumbent bikes around western Europe, let me know. PS. Your @shit_hn_says recommendation is great: a google of facepalms.
- MichaelCrawford 11y agotell me more about WarmShowers; I'm not dead certain but I am considering packing up my touring bike then riding off over the horizon. If I do this I'm only going to have a very limited amount of cash, and no real way to earn any during my travels. I have the Boy Scout Wilderness Survival Merit Badge so it's not like I don't know how to sleep outdoors but even show a "Warm Shower" would be nice from time to time.
- mbrock 11y agoI don't know much about it, but I signed up while living in Amsterdam, and got to host someone who had biked from Lille in France across Belgium to Amsterdam in a few days—and was headed to North Cape. She was hoping to use WarmShowers as much as possible on the way, but had brought some camping equipment. Weary travellers need to shower, sleep, and eat, so there's a custom of hosts providing some kind of food. But obviously that's up to the host. I cooked something simple with rice and beans and vegetables and it was very appreciated.
- tomjen3 11y agoSeems interesting, but it is strictly for bicyclists. I really hope there is some community that is basically CS but without the crap.
- iak8god 11y agoI haven't tried it but keep hearing of BeWelcome as a place aiming at "CS but without the crap" http://www.bewelcome.org http://www.bewelcome.org
- roberts_vc 11y agoBeWelcome suffers from quite toxic and counterproductive internal politics and petty power struggles. And the fact that the few founders maintaining control refuse to invest anything of substance in the code just _barely_ holding the site together. Their constant boasts of "purely democratic!" and "proudly spending zilch on technical talent!" are in reality, massive liabilities and impediments. The site has barely seen any growth in about eight years, and without "enough" users, it provides little value to anyone except the small, core group. Which they're perfectly fine with. Several extremely talented coders who invested tons of time and skill into CS and BW over the years, finally started this last December: trustroots.org github.com/Trustroots/trustroots/ Who's into MEAN? Drop them a line!