Home Exchange

Months of research. Hours spent comparing flight prices. Countless nights debating destinations and routes, followed by whimsical dreams of far away cities…

In March, the husband and I took a much-needed 8 day vacation to Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico as part of a non-simultaneous home…

In case you missed any of our blog posts during our awesome six week Eurotrip adventure, you can catch up with this…

Six weeks is a lot of time for self-reflection and lesson learning. Here are 10 things we learned during out adventure abroad!

Here are some final thoughts on our month-long home exchange from my husband and Cora, one of our home swapping partners.

For four weeks, we swapped homes with Cora and Hans, a sweet and fun-loving couple from the Hague. We got to experience…

The birds wake me up, their incessant morning chatter yanking me from a lovely dream. I roll over, and for the briefest…

In America, it’s uncommon to hear of people taking really long vacations or trips lasting more than two weeks because most companies…

We’re 38 days out from our Schwannema Euro Adventure, slowly checking things off of our pre-trip To Do list. And today, I knocked a big one off the list: doing a test-pack to make sure we can live out of carry-ons for 36 days.

In just a couple months, we’ll be embarking on our greatest travel adventure together: six weeks in Europe! The first two weeks…

While we were on our honeymoon, staying in the beautiful Kailua Kona on Hawaii, we avoided doing much typically touristy stuff. We decided against the helicopter tour and dolphin experience after reading so many mixed reviews, instead choosing to spend our money on food and drink. Less doing, more vacating. When we did do something touristy, such as drive down to the volcano, we tried to balance it by asking locals where they would go next. We try to live like locals whenever we visit a new place.