One of the few pleasures of airplane travel for me is that I get to catch up with my issues of The New Yorker. Thus it happened that, during my round trip to Toledo earlier this week, I discovered the travel phenomenon of couch surfing … or staying at strangers’ places while on the road … via Patricia Marx’s typically funny and informative account. Happily, this is one of those pieces that The New Yorker has made available to all of us for free … much like a couch surfing host. Have any OnSITE readers couch surfed the world successfully, or hosted said surfers?