Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Summer Vacation Exchanges

[Debbie Behrens (debbeh]

> From cohousing-l [at] uci.com Tue Jan 30 13:09:33 1996
> From: MelaSilva [at] aol.com
> Subject: Summer Vacation Exchanges

> In the past year, members of our community have gone to Mexico, Ireland,
> China, Russia, Germany, England, India. Travel inside the states has been
> even more extensive. The one thing we have in common is - we like to go see
> other places!
> Since we first formed our group we have had visions of doing vacation
> exchanges.( I come stay at your home while at the same time you come stay at
> mine.) With the internet the arrangements would be greatly simplified. Many
> of us want very much to visit other cohousing communities, but also want to
> visit everything an area has to offer. If you think this is a good idea, and
> you would be willing to be the point person for your community, please drop
> me a note.

There's a group called 'Friendship Force' that exchanges home visits around
the world, but I don't have any information about them other than their name.
I gather that it works something like: a group of families in some town/city
in Peru hosts a group of families from Chicago (primarily, but others can 
join), and then sometime later, a group of families primarily from Peru
might visit a group of families in Stockholm, etc, etc.  
It's not a one-for-one swap, you get to meet your hosts, 
instead of going to their home while they're at yours.

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