What is it?
Trip Hopping helps you find the best ways to get where you're going, connect with people and the best things to do when your there. Whether you have tons of money or a pocket full of lint, TripHopping.com has everything from flight information to hitchhiking tips. The best ways for you to meet people and share rides. Anyone can add travel tips about regional bus systems, best spots to hitchhike, cool spots to check out or other creative ways to help you get where you're going next.
Once you create a profile you can share stories with your friends, they can see pictures, videos, and blogs of your adventure and see where you are off to next. Everyone has their own map showing their travels, so you can see who is close by and where your friends are headed next.
Once you get to your destination you can search for people in the city who will welcome you into their lives and give you a comfy couch to sleep on, maybe even show you around the city.
While we give you ways to find couches, rides, and good times, we also know lots of other sites do the same thing. We want to be the best at all of those, but we think you should know when there are other options, so we've added ways for members to share links to other great resources. Craigslist.com for ridesharing or Couchsurfing.com, for example, is an incredible way to find a couch in almost any city in the world, so if you can't find a couch on TripHopping, you'll see links to sites like that to make sure you keep on truckin'.
Our mission is to eliminate the perception of distance and foreign, and expose every opportunity to have a good time.
By getting verified, you help keep TripHopping going. The financial contribution that you make when you get verified helps us expand TripHopping's functionality and services. Verification also helps our community stay safe. By confirming your name and address, you show other Trip Hoppers that you are who you say you are. This simple gesture strengthens the trust system that allows TripHopping to function.
Besides just helping people find the coolest ways to travel or things to do, we want to change the way people think. Help them see how much fun it can be to rideshare and the friendships that can be made on those road trips. If every ride picked up one person, we could really reduce the pollution, and make a BIG difference.
How it started
In the summer of 2007 Ken Flannery fit what he could into his backpack and decided to become "Hobo 2.0". The 2.0 bit was added since Kenny was going to use the internet as a way of sharing his travels with his own website using videos, pictures, and stories, as well as using sites like CouchSurfing.com to find places to rest and people to meet. The site was first called www.HoboLifestyle.com.
While HoboLifestyle.com started as a personal blog, it evolved and included a map of Kenny's travels and more. Eventually Kenny added a travel feature so people could see all the different ways to get from one place to another, and then thought it could be cool if other travelers could create profiles and share their own stories, maps, post rides...
After a week in Tucson Kenny hitchhiked up to Phoenix where he couch surfed with Larry Streech, a veteran couch surfing host. They got to talking about the couch surfing site, and also about ideas for Hobo Lifestyle. There were was so much passion and so many new ideas and directions to take them. They decided they could work together on this project, and came up with a new name and direction for the site, Trip Hopping was born. Since then TripHopping.com has gone through a lot of changes and just keeps getting better. Always evolving and changing with new ways to help people move around this big marble. So far we have been mainly focused on North America, since it seemed to be one of the hardest places to get around without a car. We will keep working to add more info for the rest of the world and keep making it easier to get to your next desitination.
Veified Members
Verification is an important part of Trip Hopping. Getting verified let's other members know that you are who you say you are. It's also the main way to support Trip Hopping and keep us up in running. Learn more and get verified here.
Volunteer!
Want to help make Trip Hopping awesome? There's a lot of ways to do so, check out our Brew page.
Contact Info
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