This past week's vacation has provided me with more thoughts from our stay in Palm Springs. While on the computer in the Best Western lobby getting our boarding passes I overheard this woman - about 60-70 yo and nationality unknown asking for a hotel room because the hosts they were staying with threw them out of their home and were not supposed to leave for another 3 days. She was indignant that this could happen to her. I wanted to ask but did not as to why they thought they were thrown out? There are always two sides to every story.
For my wife and I we do not like to stay at other peoples' homes and we rarely have anybody stay in our house except for one of her cousins. If people come into town we offer to put them up in a guest suite in our rented out condo building. It costs $40/night and we would offer to help pay that for our guests. To be perfectly honest we do not like having people in our house and we do not like to stay at other peoples' houses. Your thoughts? Are you the perfect guests? Are you the perfect hosts/hostesses? Do you have any rules, bad experiences etc?
On the plus side we have met several couples we have hiked with in Palm Springs area. Hikers are generally nice folks irrespective of nationality.
