Preparing Your Home for an Exchange
When getting your home ready for a home exchange, there are good and bad components. The good thing is it makes you clean out your pantry, organize your closets a bit, and straighten out your dresser drawers. The bad thing about a home exchange is that you have to clean out your pantry, organize your {Read more about Preparing Your Home for an Exchange}
Frugal in San Francisco Part 3
A family of four vacationing in a great city like San Francisco, California can be expensive. Once you add up the costs involved with getting there, feeding your family, doing fun activities, and staying in a hotel, your travel budget can be shot. That’s why a home exchange is so easy on your wallet. There’s {Read more about Frugal in San Francisco Part 3}
Frugal in San Francisco Part 2
Not having spent much time in the city of San Francisco, the point of our visit was to immerse ourselves in the neighborhood and walk everywhere. When we arrived at our home exchange house on Sunday evening, we parked our car in their garage and agreed to not drive it again until we left for {Read more about Frugal in San Francisco Part 2}
Frugal in San Francisco Part 1
When we go on a trip and travel somewhere, our trips are all about food. We like to eat and eat well. In general, we try to cook breakfast and dinners at home, go to lunch somewhere, pack a picnic lunch to bring along or pick up food at a local market. Meals at restaurants {Read more about Frugal in San Francisco Part 1}
Backyard Chickens
We have chickens. I still marvel at this statement. It’s not the same as telling people you have a dog or a cat. We purposely have these creatures, in our very small backyard, in the city. Here’s how it happened… Our family was exchanging homes with a family in Gouda, The Netherlands, near Amsterdam. We {Read more about Backyard Chickens}
Home Exchange
Do you have dreams of taking a family vacation to Europe? Would you like to stay in a home, have access to a car, and experience life in another country? If the thought of staying in expensive hotels and eating out at restaurants 3 times a day doesn’t sound appealing to you (or your pocket {Read more about Home Exchange}












