If you’re a part of the Couchsurfing community, you’ve no doubt heard the news. And you’ve certainly seen the outrage. If you log in to your Couchsurfing account today, this is the screen you will see: What’s more, everyone has been locked out of their accounts until they pay the monthly fee. All our friends

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Welcome to Bren On The Road 3.0! You might notice things look a little different around here. This is the second redesign I’ve done since launch, and the first in 4 years. It’s a big change from how things started! When I first started this site in 2013 I knew nothing about websites. I knew nothing about

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It happens to me everywhere I go. I’ll be having a conversation with some mates at the hostel and, forgetting I’m not in New Zealand, I’ll say something like… “Yeah nah bro, I reckon that’s all good, cheap as for a mean as feed like that!” And they’ll all stare at me in silence, as

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The idea of this challenge was to do something more substantial than just reading books or doing pull ups. I wanted to build something or produce an actual product. The goal was to find something that: I’d never done before Developed a useful skill Produced something useful Was really difficult I actually came up with

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One thing I learned during my recent journey into endurance sports is that triathletes are an odd bunch. I don’t know if I’ve met a group of people more obsessed with their sport than the #swimbikerun crowd. So as you can imagine, with the triathlon season almost entirely cancelled worldwide, the triathlon community has been

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