Two Competent, Dependable Retirees Available for House Sitting Worldwide

About this sitter

We are two retirees who enjoy travel, the outdoors in all its forms, and stretching ourselves (including our brains!) with unique experiences. Our most recent long-term adventures were a 13-month "Vagabond" around the USA, Canada and Mexico, May 2019 - July 2020; a 2-month meander within France, Germany, Scotland and London-area in 2022; and we just returned from 2.5 months exploring the NW, Alaska, and parts of western Canada. We live in the southwest mountains of New Mexico. We are competent, dependable, flexible, low-key, experienced with "strangers" in our home and as being "strangers" in other people's homes due to our involvement with Couchsurfing.org and our experience as "WWOOFers" in past years. One of us is fluent in Spanish. We prefer housesits of minimally 3-weeks.

Why they want to house sit

We are looking for opportunities to visit and live in other areas of the United States and/or the world that will fit our budget. House sitting is one way to do that. While our "vagabond year" ended in July 2020, our desire and freedom to wander and learn will continue all our life.

Their experience

We have five "official" house/pet sitting experiences, and we have participated with the World Wide Organization of Organic Farming (WWOOF ... I think?) ... "farm stays" where we exchanged 4 hrs. of labor each day in exchange for room and board. This was in New Zealand around 20 yrs ago. We "WWOOFed" in NZ for almost a year. We also are members of Couchsurfing.org (CS.) We have primarily hosted travelers looking for a way to enjoy a more in-depth experience in a region by staying with local CS Hosts. We do not charge. The experience, the visiting, the laughter and sharing is the payment. We have ourselves been "Couchsurfers" (CSers) through this organization. We also have unofficially housesat for friends and family over the years.
We are dog owners of 40 years, now empty-nested of animals when our Mel-dog died at the age of 14. All five of our official MindMyHouse housesit experiences involved dog and cat care.

What can they bring to the assignment

Dependability; competence; organizational ability; carpentry ability; humor; experience; wisdom; low-key manner; low-key lifestyle; able to deal with unexpected events and outcomes; a pretty fair level of Spanish language fluency; flexibility; freedom to travel; and more.