Well to all you who have had a bad experience, sorry. As a touring cyclist, I used to "couch surf" before that site was ever created. Then that site among others came along. About 10 yrs ago I started noticing that responses were becoming less frequent. It went from one response for every 1 or 2 requests sent to one for every 10. I no longer use couchsurfing. I've never tried Warm Showers, but have always heard good things about it. And as a person who lives on their bike (a nice euphemism for the H word), I do not steal. We are not all like that. I could care less about the crap made by exploited labor in peoples' homes. Keep your Mercedes. Keep your garbage. Keep your screwed up way of living. Oh, and I have my fair share of strange host stories too!