 Whether you are a full-time traveler, a part-time traveler, here in the United States or outside, these four platforms are going to open your eyes to new ways of traveling and exploring, and will present you with opportunities to travel more for less. You're on the list is Trusted House Sitters. This is a great platform that connects home and pet owners with pet sitters from around the world. I've seen opportunities and house sits here in the US, all around Europe, the UK, Australia, and many other countries. The way it works is very simple. If someone has a home and pets and they need someone to care for them, they would go and listed on Trusted House Sitters. And you, as a house sitter, you will be able to go to Trusted House Sitters and browse opportunities all around the world. You obviously need to be someone who is interested in caring for pets. This is also a great way for solo travelers. If you are a solo traveler and you feel lonely when you are traveling, this is a good way to make sure that you have a companion, especially if you are traveling for an extended amount of time. So you are basically getting free accommodation in return of you caring for their home and caring for their pets. Usually it can be cats, it can be dogs, sometimes horses, if it's a ranch. It can be rabbits, chickens, you name it. It really is different from one house sit to the other. Now in order for you to be able to reach out to hosts and engage with someone in this type of exchange, you should have a membership on Trusted House Sitters and there are three different packages that you can choose from. The very basic one is one 29 US dollars. But if you use the link that I have in the description box, you will immediately get 25% off, which is a great deal. So if you think that you will be using Trusted House Sitters for at least twice a year, that is already going to pay for itself because you are getting free accommodation and depending how much time you are spending in that specific house sit, that can already pay for itself because you're not spending money on a hotel, for example, which is super convenient. Every package comes with some additional perks, but the basic sitter package will basically come with an option for you to arrange for house sits and reach out to hosts, but also they provide you with vet support where you can reach out to a vet office with any questions or concerns, which is super helpful. My first house sit with Trusted House Sitters is actually happening in a few days where I will be traveling to Idaho and I'm really excited to share that experience with you. So if you're not subscribed to the channel, be sure to subscribe. I will be sharing all of the details of my first-time experience with Trusted House Sitters and follow me on Instagram, tracking pals where I share daily behind-the-scenes raw footage from my experience once I make it there. The second one I have for you is Home Exchange as the name indicates. This is a home-swapping platform. So let's say for example, I have my house in Scottsdale, Arizona and there's James with his property in Chicago, Illinois, we would swap. So he would travel to Arizona, stay in my house and I would travel to Chicago for example and stay in that property and you get free accommodation if you are traveling. Most of the exchange on Home Exchange is reciprocal of this sort but there are also opportunities for no reciprocal change where you can just let someone come and stay in your home using guest points or guest credits and these guest points are accumulated over time the more you let people stay in your house. And here's a pro tip for you if you go right now and create your account you check your identity, you list your home and you do your background check you can easily accumulate about 800 guest points and these 800 guest points you can use them in exchange of accommodation. When I did my research I found out that 800 guest points can translate easily to four nights here in Sedona in Arizona. So even if you're not engaging in Home Exchange right now you can start accumulating guest points or you can just use the 800 guest points that you accumulate from creating your account for free accommodation which is great. The next one I have for you is Workaway. This platform is becoming very popular amongst travelers and it connects work-awayers with cultural exchange working holidays and volunteering in 170 countries. There are so many opportunities that you can find on Workaway and the majority of these opportunities are either community projects, sustainable projects, animal welfare and pet sitting, sailing, working with NGOs or cultural exchange. And the way it works is very simple you get free accommodation and free food in return of some work. So it can be between four to five hours on an average that you should dedicate every single day. So it could be you helping in a hotel or a hostel just helping around the hotel and helping with some of the management work. It could be you helping to build a school in the middle of nowhere. You could be helping some of the travel agencies to build their websites or to build their presence on social media. There are opportunities where you can go and sail and help in the boats if it's something that you have experience with or if it's something that you are interested in. Most of these opportunities on Workaway are free meaning you just get free food and free accommodation you don't get paid for the work that you do or the services that you provide but there are instances where you might come across some paid opportunities on Workaway but they are very rare. And then lastly on the list is Word Packers. This platform is very similar to Workaway in a way that you are getting free accommodation sometimes accommodation and food sometimes just accommodation every host is different. And then the opportunities on Word Packers can go from one week to weeks up to three months at a time. So there is a range of opportunities for you to pick from but the concept is very similar. You are getting free accommodation in return of your skills or whatever you are good at you are helping your host in exchange of free accommodation. 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