An Incredible Book Journey: Time Was Soft There

Over the next six weeks, I will have the joy of visiting independent bookstores in 23 cities. Follow the trip and meet the many wonderful friends, book people and random characters I encounter along the way.

Saturday, November 12, 2005

Global Freeloading ...



As you might already know, I am trying to make it through this entire 42-day tour without paying for a single hotel room. In many cities, I am lucky enough to have friends with couches or bedrooms to spare. But there remain a few cracks and some of these cracks I’ve been filling with www.globalfreeloaders.com. This is an online community who offer up free space in their homes or apartments to fellow travellers. In Pittsburgh, a wonderful journalist by the name of Violet Law arranged this extremely comfortable bed for me on the bottom floor of her apartment. Live cheap, I say.