If you ever want to travel lightly, meet new people, and/or step up your adventurous level, I highly recommend the professional way of couch-surfing, and this is the only site to make it more "legit". Make sure you read it all the way through. Yeah, its crazy, but you might meet some cool serial killers on the way. =)
Cultural blog on the life of contemporary Russian society, as the name suggests, adds a bit of Western (American) twist. Mostly entertaining, but it proceeds to contain some soci-political undertones, especially when they document their visitation of the nuclear fallout ghosttown, Chernobyl. Very interesting view-points despite erratic grammar, it's a good read.
