Learning to Travel Using Pet Sitting
Chris and I have used pet sitting for eight years to trade accommodations in downtown apartments, water front homes and desert adobes for care of someone's home and pets. We’ve been able to live like locals in Argentina, blend with US and Canadian expats in Costa Rica and escape Nebraska winters by playing pickleball in Arizona and Florida . We learned about house and pet sitting on a trip to Portugal, where we met a couple from New Zealand who spent half the year on house sits near their daughter who lived in the UK. We were immediately intrigued with the idea - we had been considering living at least part of the year away from our hometown and this seemed like a great opportunity to find out what it was really like to live in, not just visit, other communities. A stubborn and greedy bulldog who snored all night. and peed a gallon right inside the front door, but still delighted us with his personality. Within a few months we had joined a pet sitting platform, created a profile ...