Meagan Cignoli uses Kindred for affordable, flexible home-swapping travel worldwide. Kindred allows non-consecutive swaps, where you pay a service fee and for cleaning. Kindred's insurance and ...

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Staying in a stranger's home while traveling is a lusty proposition: You get to explore and relax in someone else's sanctuary. Instead of being pigeonholed into tourist zones, you're liberated to ...

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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Meagan Cignoli, a sculptor based in Los Angeles and a member of Kindred, a home-swapping network. Kindred members do direct, one-to-one home swaps ...

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