Getting higher

I can quickly tell who is a candidate for house exchange and who is not. Travel-likely is a good start. But if the traveler says something like "I would never be able to stay in someone else's house" I know this is not a good candidate for house exchange. To be honest, I don't understand. That same person will think that staying at hotel -- the more expensive, and photogenic, and accommodating, the better -- is personal. Yet, is it not true that that room you consider yours at the expensive hotel was used the night before by a complete stranger and will be used tomorrow night by another complete stranger. AirBnB and others have set the bar very high, no doubt. Staying in someone else’s bed, looking through someone else’s windows, eating at someone else’s table today means more than interpreting the world (so says an AirBnB ad) – it means changing the world (future House Exchange ad, I hope). AirBnB asks “are the he’s and she’s of this mankind good or bad? Go see.” House Exchange asks you to get to know people around the world. In so doing you've already changed the world. Personal diplomacy, I call it. With most travel sites, including AirBnB, there is money to pay; not with home exchange – you trade only trust with people around the world. You are globalister. But be safe, my friend.