Author Archives: jackihope

Roadtripping New Zealand

What You Need to Know About Buying and Selling a Car in New Zealand Getting around is one of the biggest problems to solve when planning a trip to New Zealand. It informs where you’ll go, what you’ll do, and what you can pack. I’ve seen New Zealand three ways: a semi-guided bus tour (Stray),Continue reading “Roadtripping New Zealand”

Top 5 House & Pet Sitting Sites

If you are interested in becoming a house sitter or pet sitter, the easiest way to find sits is through a dedicated house sitting website. While most of these sites use the term “house sitter,” more often than not, the ads on these sites will be for pet sitting. While it’s not impossible to findContinue reading “Top 5 House & Pet Sitting Sites”

Securing Your First Sit

Giving advice on how to get your first sit as a housesitter is like telling someone how to get their first date on Tinder. Because other people are involved, it’s impossible to know what things they look for or avoid, and just what they are thinking throughout their petsitter selection process. However, there are aContinue reading “Securing Your First Sit”

5 Myths About House and Pet Sitting

First off, I’ll start out by saying I use the terms housesitting and petsitting interchangeably, even though one relates to watching a person’s pets while the other may suggest looking after a home. While it is possible to find housesitting jobs that don’t include pet care, they are few and far between. In fact, ifContinue reading “5 Myths About House and Pet Sitting”

How Much We’ve Spent in 2022

When you tell people you travel full time, you can see the cogs start turning in their head even before the question leaves their lips. They are crunching the numbers, usually imaginary numbers they’ve created based on their own conceptions of what travel costs and what it costs to run their own lives. But ultimately,Continue reading “How Much We’ve Spent in 2022”

Getting Started as a Petsitter

There have never been more pet sits available than in this ‘post’-pandemic world we currently live in. People who got pets during lockdown are now free to visit family and friends they haven’t seen for years. This means that pet sitters are in high demand. So how to get started as a pet sitter? TheContinue reading “Getting Started as a Petsitter”

Welcome to Our Blog!

Hello! We are Jacki and Aaron, full-time international pet sitters traveling the world and making furry friends along the way! We started our full-time travel journey in January 2022 after spending two years in UK lockdowns dreaming of exploring the world again. During this time, we did a few pet sits to keep our skillsContinue reading “Welcome to Our Blog!”