I need your help. I've come up with the craziest idea ever. It may not work but I'll give it a go & see what happens. I'll start off by saying I'm still in Ireland. I'm living & working in a very small town. I'm really starting to feel like I'm a bird that doesn't have it's wings clipped but is stuck in a very small cage. I just want to fly & no one else is going to do it for me I need to do it myself. I'm going to be going to Vancouver Canada on a working/holiday visa. I would like to do nannying there but they are telling me I need to wait till the end August as jobs are thin over the summer holidays.

So here's the crazy idea. I thought why not travel America for a couple of months leading up to it. I lived there for a year & loved it. I managed to see a lot of it but I want to see more. So here's where you guys come in. Is there anyone out there that would have a spare bed, couch, floor, shed or anything that I could stay on for 2 days or 2 weeks? I've meet some really great people on this site & it would be wonderful to meet some of you in person. I don't have a lot of money but I've been brought up to take nothing for free. I would be prepared to do odd jobs & help out to earn my keep. I'm a very independent person so I wouldn't take up a lot of your time as I've never found it any trouble to get myself around places. I realise it's asking a lot to have a stranger turn up on your door step. And I'm taking the same risk but I'll always have a back up plan (or 2).

The other thing I wanted to ask is you may not be able to have me stay but you may have ideas for me. Please feel free to advise. For example I know there used to be a thing with Greyhound $99 for 99 days. I've been on there website & can't find it. I tried calling but couldn't get anywhere. I'm sure they must have something like that still just not sure how to find it. Of course any other ideas on how I can do things cheaply would be greatly appreciated.

One of the great things about this is I have a camcorder & camera. So it will be cool to do a diary of all this on the site.

If this is works & you people are prepared to take me on then the only thing stopping me is my job. I haven't told my boss yet cause I wanted to start with this. But if it goes ahead then I need to give a months notice. Even then if they don't find a replacement I will need to wait for that. So that does give the problem that I can't make any definite dates.

I don't know if this is a good idea or if I'm just plan stupid. But this crazy bird needs to get out of her cage spread her wrings & fly like she was born to do.