<human>: I'm a work-from-home programmer cooped up in NYC and decided that I there's no reason I couldn't travel while I work.

I'm still gathering my papers so that I can get my passport together, but I wanted to see a little more of the US before I left the country for awhile anyway.

Are there any caveats to leaving the country for 2 months that I should be aware of? Any cities in the US I should see in particular?

I've been poking around Airbnb, but it looks like the minimum I'd be looking at is $50/day and if I'm lucky, $400-500 for a month in the US.

Should I just check out the couchsurfing community if I want to go cheaper, or are youth hostels viable/safe?

I know I just made the reddit account, but I haven't really had a permanent account since I deleted one due to a creeper. (and I don't mean SssssSSSSS r/minecraft :P )

Can you provide a brief rundown of the text in within 3 sentences?
<bot>: traveling US and soon, out of country too (Malaysia's on the short list), looking for ideas for saving money and location suggestions. Ideas will be edited into this.