My wife Brenda and I started participating in Couchsurfing Link to our Couchsurfing Profile several years ago. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a kind of a “pay it forward hospitality exchange network” where you host travelers or may be hosted when you travel. One of our first guests was a young Frenchman named Guillaume. On his first night in our home, we struck up the dreaded political conversation that you typically avoid with friends and family members for fear of damaging your relationship. In this case, Guillaume was a stranger so the conversation was fair game.