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Welcome to Warmshowers.org
Welcome to our community of bike tourists. This is a hospitality site for touring cyclists. You can Sign up here, read the rules, the introduction, and the FAQ or browse the member forums.
Warmshowers iPhone app
Submitted by cake on Mon, 2010-01-25 12:18I'm in the process of building an iPhone app for Warmshowers. It'll be a simple app that will show the location of hosts around you, and also let you get in contact with them.
I'm looking for volunteers to help test the app. All you need is an iPhone 3G or 3GS, and a little bit of time.
If you're interested, then follow the instructions at http://trackmytour.com/beta/ and send your identifier to me at chris@trackmytour.com.
cheers,
Chris
Cooking on the road
Submitted by thespokenroad on Wed, 2009-12-30 10:06Hola Ciclistas!
Okay...I know you've all been there. It's your fifth week, or maybe your fiftieth...maybe more. You settle down after a long day's ride to cook a delectable, scrumptious pot of...plain rice?.....Again?.....pasta with watery sauce...Again? There has to be something better, you say! Surely there is. This is a call out to the bike roadies of WarmShowers to submit one or two (or ten, if they're good!) of your favorite bike-friendly recipes to share with the rest of us. Of particular interest are innovative ways to bake and in general cook "outside the pot". !Buen Provecho!
This was one of our favorites in Ecuador and Peru...
1 giant, super ripe PAPAYA
1 giant, super ripe MANGO or PIÑA, as available
onion
garlic
red, green and/or hot pepper
tomato
avocado
1 can tuna (optional)
1 pot rice
salt
pepper
tajin (our favorite mexican spice...anything will do)
Any other yummy fresh ingredients you can get your pedals on will work as well. Once your rice is cooked, add sauteed onion, garlic and peppers (with spices added to taste), then add drained tuna. Then pile on the tomato, avocado and chunks of your super ripe, wicked delicious looking mango (the mango/piña is crucial). Mix well. While this is surely got your taste buds drooling, take a deep breath and set it aside for a moment to cut your papaya in half lengthwise. Clean out the seeds and set one half aside, taking care not to set it on or near an anthill. Load up your new papaya bowl and dig in, making sure to get large scoops of papaya with each bite. This is made even tastier with a handful of freshly fried platanos (bananas) sprinkled on top.
Here's a picture.. Click on it to see the full version.
All hail the spatula!
You can add your recipes as comments to this posting!
Seth
thespokenroad
Happy New Year to all Warmshowers members
Submitted by rfay on Tue, 2009-12-29 13:21Happy New Year and greeting to all Warmshowers members.
Once again, thanks to all of your for your kind generosity to touring cyclists this year. And all of us who have stayed with you thank you as well.
Just a few quick notes:
First, a word of thanks to a few of the absolutely wonderful volunteers who spent countless hours making Warmshowers.org happen this year:
- Kevin O'Leary, of Las Vegas, Nevada, in the USA, has handled the registration duties with grace and diligence. He looks at the logs of registrations every day, roots out spammers, responds to your email messages, and keeps things humming.
- Chris Russo, of Boston, Massachussetts, USA, put in most of his time in one intense effort. He spent countless hours of his valuable expertise upgrading the website to the latest version of the software it runs on, Drupal. A tip of the hat to both of you, and a free night's stay with a Warmshowers host anywhere in the world.
- David Garcia, of Granada, Spain, led the Spanish translation team, so Warmshowers.org is now in Spanish! Thanks to David and the whole team.
- Nicolas Caron, of Nice, France, led the French translation team to make the site available to the world's French speakers. Thanks to Nicolas and all of you who contributed.
- And to all of you who so generously hosted members, THANK YOU.
Second, it's time to remind you to please log in and check your registration information. I know that you know it's already right. I'm just asking you to do it anyway. We pride ourselves in keeping the site up-to-date so that travelers don't have the frustration of trying to contact hosts that aren't there any more. Just go to http://warmshowers.org/user and log in. You can use your email address if you don't know your username. You can request a one-time login link at http://warmshowers.org/user/password if you don't remember your password.
In a short time I'll begin the annual task of deleting the accounts of people who haven't logged in for a year, so please log in soon. We grew from about 7000 to about 11,000 members this year, but every year I delete 1000 or so who haven't logged in lately.
Third, are you interested in getting Warmshowers.org translated into your own language? If you're willing to invest a substantial amount of time, have great English skills, can continue maintaining the site in your language, and are not scared by web technologies, we'll help you to get started and make the site available to people from your country. Portuguese has been mentioned as the next appropriate language.
If you're interested in improving Warmshowers.org in other ways, there's always room for your attention. Do you have something that annoys you? Do you want to improve the content on the site? Are you a web designer who could do a new design for us?
If you're interested in improving Warmshowers.org in other ways, there's always room for your attention. Do you have something that annoys you? Do you want to improve the content on the site? Are you a web designer who could do a new design for us?
Fourth, your financial support is always welcome. All of the registration and technical work and the work of keeping the site going is done by volunteers. We've recently cut our hosting fees down to about $50/month, but that means we're spending about $600/year for hosting. We received US$464 in donations this year. THANK YOU! If you would care to donate, please just click the "Donate" button on the front page of the Warmshowers.org site.
Finally, did you see the cool pictures posted by members in the Warmshowers Photo Contest? There are some very inspiring photos there. I think we're all winners getting to share in travel like that.
Again, thanks to all of you for your generosity to touring cyclists. If you have any questions at all, just reply to this email and we'll try to resolve them.
Thanks,
-Randy and Kevin
Automated translation: Does it work for you?
Submitted by rfay on Tue, 2009-12-29 11:33Today I added an automated translation feature to the site. This is mainly for people who do not speak English, as most of the site is in English.
Each story and each comment now has a "translate" button, where you can machine-translate it into any of several languages (thanks to Google). In addition, the "About Me" section of the profile page has a translate button. That way when people write "about me" in their own language, you can at least get the gist of what's being said.
If this is annoying to our members, I can change how it's set up. There are two basic goals:
1. To make member-contributed content (like their profile "About me" and items in the forums) accessible to people who speak various languages. Even though we have French and Spanish translations now, that doesn't mean that all the content in English is accessible to speakers of those languages.
2. To make more of the site accessible to people who don't speak any of our translated languages. We will probably never translate the site into Bulgarian or traditional Chinese, but readers from those languages may at least be able to get something out of the website.
I am well aware that the translations done by Google (or any translation service) are rarely good and often catastrophically horrible. But they can be better than nothing.
Let me know what you think of this. Since I'm the author of the module that we're using to do this, I can fiddle with it. If it's annoying to you, tell me how and how you would make it better.
Thanks,
-Randy
Warmshowers Photo Contest Final Results
Submitted by rfay on Mon, 2009-12-28 00:03The Warmshowers Photo Contest winners are all of us - because we get to be inspired by the photos. Thanks to all of you for the wonderful submissions. You can expect them to show up here on these pages.
Take a look again at all the entries.
I wasn't able to get in touch with winner Yosuke Hasegawa for his feedback, but here's what runner-up Joris van Mastrigt had to say about his camping picture in the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia:
First of all I'd like to thank warmshowers for the wonderful time we had cycling through the USA. Warmshower hospitality was inspiring!
Camping on the Salar was the most wonderful camping experience ever. Cycling all day across the salt was beautiful. No noise, just the crackling of the small saltridges. Just a few mountains behind the horizon and clear blue skies. At four o'clock we decided to stop. We turned right from the track we were on and went straight for a couple of hundred meters. On this spot of perfect hexagons we stopped. Here we were in this bright white plane with a hundred kilometer view and absolutely no cover. So quiet. A few jeeps passed us in the distance whil the sun started to set. It was an incredible sunset with the sun going down on one side and the dark roling in on the other. I stayed outside untill the stars came out...... And quickly went in because it was freezing!!!!
Our website is www.buurma.nl. Unfortunately it's all in Dutch.
An Australian Perspective on Warmshowers.org
Submitted by rfay on Wed, 2009-12-23 23:07
Warmshowers member Rob Byrne wrote and published a really nice article about Warmshowers.org in Way2Go Magazine. It has a fine overview of what Warmshowers.org is all about and Rob and Maureen's personal experiences.
Quoting from the article:
Keen to begin bicycle touring, Rob and Maureen Byrne found a website that would enrich their lives -- even before they left home.
Two years ago, we began to think about bicycle touring. We'd always enjoyed cycling and kept hearing about people touring the country, and even the world, on their bikes. We started doing research, including joining online cycling forums.
We saw plenty of positive comments about something called Warmshowers.org and discovered it was a hospitality list that puts touring cyclists in touch with hosts all over the world. The hosts offer somewhere for the cyclist to sleep -- everything from a room to a patch of grass for pitching a tent. Best of all, after a long day in the saddle, they also provide the use of a warm shower.
It seemed like a great idea so we joined....
Read the rest now (pdf, 376Kb).
Anne Mustoe passed away
Submitted by Antoinettem on Tue, 2009-12-15 13:54It is with great sadness that I learnt that Anne Mustoe passed away on 10 November 2009. She was on her third global cycling tour when she became ill and passed away in Aleppo, Syria. She was 76.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/6790125/Anne-Mustoe.html
R.I.P
Final results for the photo contest!
Submitted by rfay on Sun, 2009-12-06 09:58Voting is now over for the photo contest. Congratulations on all the beautiful entries. We'll have a writeup on the winner and the runner-up shortly.
yosuke0131
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Mastrigt
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cyclinggypsies
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stittys
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WendyBoothroyd
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Mastrigt
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cyclinggypsies
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Land Lover Freerider
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cyclinggypsies
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rick-and-tanya
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thespokenroad
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patwanner
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Marking Members "Responsive" or "Unresponsive"
Submitted by rfay on Sun, 2009-11-22 23:05We really want members to be responsive, and want people to know when they are.
At the bottom of each member's page is a box where you can mark them "responsive" or "unresponsive" and also see what other members have concluded.
In addition, each member's "last login" time is now shown on their page. This may or may not indicate whether they'll be responsive to you, as some of our members do not use the computer as much as they love hosting cyclists. But remember that we do ask everyone to log in and update their information at least once each year.
