An Australian Perspective on Warmshowers.org

Warmshowers member Rob Byrne wrote and published a really nice article about Warmshowers.org in Way2Go Magazine. It has a fine overview of what Warmshowers.org is all about and Rob and Maureen's personal experiences.

Quoting from the article:

Keen to begin bicycle touring, Rob and Maureen Byrne found a website that would enrich their lives -- even before they left home.

Two years ago, we began to think about bicycle touring. We'd always enjoyed cycling and kept hearing about people touring the country, and even the world, on their bikes. We started doing research, including joining online cycling forums.

We saw plenty of positive comments about something called Warmshowers.org and discovered it was a hospitality list that puts touring cyclists in touch with hosts all over the world. The hosts offer somewhere for the cyclist to sleep -- everything from a room to a patch of grass for pitching a tent. Best of all, after a long day in the saddle, they also provide the use of a warm shower.

It seemed like a great idea so we joined....

Read the rest now (pdf, 376Kb).