What is it? Trip Hopping helps you get where you're going and connect with people and the best things to do. Whether you have tons of money or a pocket full of lint, TripHopping.com has everything from flight information to hitchhiking tips to safe ways to meet people and share rides. Anyone can add travel tips about regional bus systems or other creative ways to get to where you're going. Once you create a profile you can share stories with your friends and see where they're off to next. Everyone has their own map showing their travels, so you can see who's close by. 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's other options, so we've added ways for members to share links to other great resources. 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. 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 Hobo2.0Lifestyle.com and is now 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 couchsurfed with Larry Streetch, a veteran couchsurfing host. They got to talking about the couchsurfing site, and also about ideas for HoboLifestyle. There were was so much passion and so many ideas, they decided they could work together on this project, and came up with a new name for the site, Trip Hopping. |
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