Like many young couples, Austin Andrews and Jori Kerr wanted to travel but couldn’t afford the sky-high expenses. Then Kerr stumbled upon a blog post touting the benefits of pet sitting.
“I discovered we could stay in amazing homes around the world for free, caring for great animals,” she recalls.
They paid an annual fee (around $130/year) to join a service called Trusted House Sitters and waited for a response. After a few months, the couple from Bend, Oregon, got an invitation to go down to Grenada in the Caribbean for 14 days to care for a few pets.
