1. Lodging is when cereal crops fall over, often due to wind or rain pressure, making grain harvest difficult. Cereal crops are mostly grasses cultivated for their edible seeds (actually a fruit called a grain, technically a caryopsis). ... Wind is the roughly horizontal movement of air (as opposed to an air current) caused by uneven heating of the Earths surface. ... Rain falling For other uses see Rain (disambiguation). ... The use of water pressure - the Captain Cook Memorial Jet in Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra. ... The word grain has several meanings, most being descriptive of a small piece or particle. ... Hay bales after harvest in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany In agriculture, harvesting is the process of gathering mature crops from the fields. ...

2. People who travel and stay away from home for more than a day need lodging mainly for sleeping. Other purposes are safety, shelter from cold and rain, having a place to store luggage and being able to take a shower. Travel is the transport of people on a trip or journey. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Look up cold in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Rain falling For other uses see Rain (disambiguation). ...

They do that in a hotel, hostel or hostal, a private home (commercially, i.e. a bed and breakfast or guest house place, or non-commercially, with members of hospitality services or in the home of friends), in a tent, caravan/camper (often on a campsite). In addition there are make-shift solutions. A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging, usually on a short-term basis. ... Youth hostel in Rome. ... Description Hostal is an accommodation category (Spain, Mexico, Central and South America) similar to small hotel, but is more or less equivalent to guest house. ... Tourists of various nationalities chatting over breakfast at a B&B in Quebec City. ... A guest house is a private home which has been converted for the exclusive use of guest accommodation. ... Hospitality Services are networks of people who exchange accommodation. ... Friendship is a term used to denote co-operative and supportive behaviour between two or more social entities. ... A tent is a shelter, consisting of sheets of fabric or other material draped over or attached to a frame of poles and/or ropes. ... Camper can be one of several things: an automobile used for camping, see recreational vehicle. ... Campsites are often situated in or near forests. ...

Sleeping is typically done lying in a bed, or more generally on a soft surface, such as also an air mattress, a couch, etc. Some trains have sleeping cars. A double bed A bed is a piece of furniture or location primarily used or intended for sleeping upon, but also commonly used for sexual activities, relaxing, sitting, and reading. ... An air mattress is an inflatable mattress, usually made of some sort of plastic. ... Sofas come in a variety of colors, patterns, and materials (two-seater model) Ancient Greek couch with one elevated armrest A couch, and a sofa, settee, lounge, davenport or chesterfield are items of furniture for the comfortable seating of more than one person. ... For other uses, see Train (disambiguation). ... The interior of a Pullman car on the Chicago and Alton Railroad circa 1900. ...

Sometimes people sleep sitting, because lying is not possible, e.g. in a train (if not in a sleeping car), a bus, a seat in a waiting room, a bench on the street or in a park, etc. Inclinable seats allow something between sitting and lying. Whether lying on a row of seats is possible and comfortable depends e.g. on the presence of arm rests, and whether they can be moved up. In some public places lying would be possible but is not permitted. An early motorized bus - a Benz truck modified by Netphener company (1895) A bus is a large automobile intended to carry numerous persons in addition to the driver and sometimes a conductor. ... Queue at US Air Force station in Iraq, for food at a birthday celebration. Queue areas are areas in which people queue (first in, first out), that is they wait in line for something. ... An Australian park A park is any of a number of geographic features. ...

See also

• Backpacking
• Homelessness
• Human positions
• Public space
• Public transport
• Tourism
• List of types of lodging.