I normally choose shared living accommodations that allow me to interact with others. Often found on AirBnb or through a fair amount of Google searches, I've traveled to Casco Viejo, Panama, London, England, and Brooklyn, New York, sleeping for less than $35 USD per night. Although on the flip side, wandering around the Netherlands I've paid $50 USD in Amsterdam and far more Euros than that in Rotterdam for a private dwelling when I felt like it.
More than two hands and feet are required to count the friends I've made along the way. Gordon, aka Nappy G, is a native New Yorker and visionary who is light years ahead of his time. A founding member and front man of Groove Collective, and percussionist and DJ for Turntables on the Hudson (TOTH), when we met he had just given up his apartment and sold most of his possessions, about to head out on an extended international musical adventure tour crisscrossing the globe. Both staying at Homestel in Brooklyn for a few days, we became friends immediately.
If you want to have a good day, listen to his song Bembe Gente and dance.
What a life.
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