We have been doing home exchanges since about 2003. We have now completed ten successful exchanges via homlink.org and are about to embark on our longest exchange - both in distance and time. We are going to New Zealand and Australia.
On March 1, 2007 we will fly from Leon, Guananjuato to Los Angeles, CA. We'll have a whole day's layover there so plan to visit the Getty Museum before our flight to Auckland, NZ departs. We will arrive in Auckland on March 3 (a 12 1/2 hr flight - ugh!) where we have arranged for a rental car. That should be an adventure in itself since they drive on the "wrong" side of the road there. Even though it's only about 350 miles from Auckland to Wellington - our destination - we plan to take two days so that we can enjoy some fabulous NZ scenery along the way without being in a hurry.
Our exchangers are not coming to San Miguel at this time. It will be a non-simultaneous exchange - they can come to our home at some future mutually agreeable date. Shirley and Bruce Gough will be going elsewhere for their son's wedding and we will stay in their home while they are gone - about a week and a half. When they return, we will move on to their beach home on the Coromandel Penninsula - the town of Paunaui. We will stay there for about a week and a half. From there we will return our rental car in Auckland and fly on to Perth, Australia on the 24th of March. Our exchangers in Perth will arrive at our home in San Miguel at the same time. We will spend three weeks in Perth. Finally, we will head home with a 4 night stop in Sydney. When we arrive in Los Angeles, we will spend two nights there before returning to San Miguel on April 19th. Whew! It is a very long trip - the longest away from home ever.
I will update this blog regularly while we are on the trip and will post pictures. Please check back regularly if you are interested and you can post comments too.
