STEEM B&B? - IS THIS THE BEGINNING OF SOMETHING?
What happens when you travel and know people in every city in the world?
Soon, we may be able to answer just that question. The larger that the steemit community grows and the more users that join us, the more diverse our community becomes as well. The more we interact and hare with one another, the more friends that we have all over the world. Suddenly, there are people from every nation that know us and are willing to "roll out the red carpet" for us if we are ever in their area. This is a peculiar scenario indeed!
I've made the joke periodically to @bluerthangreen that if @papa-pepper ever needed to flee the United States, at least I would know people wherever I went. A joke, to be sure, and exaggerated a bit too, but still, the concept is not that far from becoming reality.
AIR B&B
Many of you may be familiar with "AIR B&B". According to Wikipedia:
Airbnb is an online marketplace and hospitality service, enabling people to lease or rent short-term lodging including vacation rentals, apartment rentals, homestays, hostel beds, or hotel rooms.
Truly, there is not that much preventing us steemians from doing the same. Say you have a spare bedroom in a city that is a well-known travel destination. What is to prevent you from allowing other steemians to spend the night when they are in town and pay you in STEEM, for a fraction of what an over-priced hotel would cost? We have our own community and currency that bonds us together now, and the potential perks of that are incredible.
Currently, the @papa-pepper tribe is about to head down to the home of @xtrodinarypilot & @xtdnrymompreneur in Texas. Just like when dropped in on @dwells & @essentialoilmom on Sunday, this is another couple that we have only "met" on steemit. Yet, they are another couple willing to have "people form the internet" over, both times on very short notice. I only suggested to @xtrodinarypilot that perhaps we could drop by on Sunday night, and now on Tuesday, we should be arriving.
This time, the steemians that we are meeting are in another state, and we will be spending the night. So far as I know, there will not be charging us (but this post may give them some ideas).
C'MON DOWN
So then, when kind and friendly people from all over "know" who you are, and may even be willing to have you over or spend the night, it really makes things easier on you if you travel. I honestly think that if I wanted to take my family on a cross country road trip, we could plan a course and only stay at the homes of steemians. How wild would that be?
Anyway, I can't wait to get back to Texas and meeting the family of @xtrodinarypilot & @xtdnrymompreneur in person will be incredible. These are truly interesting times to be a steemian, and I am impressed with the things that this platform and community are creating in my life. I honestly do consider a lot of you to be my actual friends, and we are seeing that played out more and more in real life as time goes on.
Perhaps after I build my family a house I'll build a guest house too, and list it on steemgigs as a STEEM B&B!!! I'll see you in Texas!
Until next time…
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My Family makes a living renting Guest Houses. We had over thousands of Guest stay with us before, let me tell you! You want to invite the good Steemit Folks over and sharing your house with Guests is not such a crazy Idea afterall you still get to earn from it while getting to know others. I prefer platforms like Airbnb, and use platforms like Booking.com and do occasionally get some not so friendly people but overall the experience has been good so far. Heads up to ''Steem B&B'' definitely like the idea of that. And please do visit Malaysia, USD is at all times high and there many routes to this part of South Asian, head over and you'll be my first special Steem Guests. I love talking to my Guests about Steemit, around 2 of them earned their stay by writing posts about their Penang Holiday.
I'll keep you in mind if I ever head that direction. It is a great idea! Thanks!
This is a great thought and possible to become true We @gococonuts a.k.a. Mark en Suzanne are starting our worldjourney real soon and we have written a post about Meeting steemians all over the world. What started as a wild gamble is now turning out to going to meet dozens of steemians the next couple of months in various countries :) How cool is this?! I never imagined when starting on Steemit there would be so many cool and kind people who are becoming friends and are willing to show us their country.
Whenever you are leaving the US for Amsterdam, know that you are welcome at our place and we will give you a tour whenever we can :)
Very, very cool! Enjoy the trip.😎
We sure will. Thanks 😎
Yeah, I think this is the biginning
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Brilliant idea! In fact, I did send you an open invitation a few hours ago, from South Africa. I live in a lesser known city called Witbank, or Emalahleni, as it is now called, in the province Mpumalanga. We live close to some of the most beautiful scenery in South Africa, and we would be happy to serve as tour guides as well. How is that for an idea? A little bit of steem could come in handy. I think I am now going to prepare my guest rooms. Steemians will be welcome.
That sounds great!
@papa-pepper dont forget that when you flee United States for Germany , I will welcome you with a Bavaria cold beer and a Nurnberger Bradwurst ...steemit is beautiful because of people like you making this platform a more interesting place.
I'd almost come just for the bratwurst... Almost. Thank you!
hhaaaahaha welcome. See my latest blog post for the free beer and bradwurst and select the one you want..haha
Very nice idea!
Excellent idea... Steemians don't even need to charge for overnight stay... it can be compensated with just an upvote... that would be really cool!
Right, upvotes for a bed, upvotes for breakfast!
I like it. We'd probably want private messaging first.
I'm happy to let certain steemers know where I live, but I don't want it publicly on the blockchain forever.
exactly my thoughts. And as the platform gets bigger some bad elements are sure to follow.
Agreed. I use steemit chat right now for that.
steemians are like power rangers, at some time if anything opposes steem we are going to collectively form into some megatronic titan and knock them out of our way.
all aboard the steem train!
Such a cool idea! Supporting that idea from switzerland too :)