Fellow penny pinching climbers,
I recently finished a trip to new york in which I paid zero money to stay.
www.couchsurfing.com is a website that is like hitchhiking but with couches, you want to go to a city and someone on the site has a couch for you to stay on for free an in turn you open you couch to worthy and safe people that come to your city. I worked out great so the more people the better.
Bryan