Like many young people, Jessica wants to travel the globe. Unlike most of them, this 25-year-old is doing it 41 .She and her husband have spent the last two years traveling the world, stopping everywhere from Paris to Singapore. It might sound like one long, expensive 42 , but the couple has an unusual way to make their travel 43 .
They’re part of a new form of the 44 economy: an online group of house sitters. Throughout their no-cost stays in 45 homes, they feed pets and water plants in the homeowner’s 46 .
It’s not all sightseeing. The two travelers carefully 47 their trips, scheduling their days around the pets that are sometimes difficult to 48 . But house sitting also offers a level of 49 they can’t find in a hotel. “It’s like 50 at a friend’s house,” Jessica says.
The couple has a high 51 rate in getting accepted as house sitters and they always go beyond the homeowner’s 52 . For Jessica, that means 53 plenty of pictures of happy pets, keeping the house 54 and leaving a nice small gift before heading to the next house. “You want to make the homeowner feel that they made the right 55 ,”she says.