We are two professionals who between us have many years' experience traveling and house-sitting abroad. Charles was a full-time instructor at the University of Colorado for many years. He is now editing articles for online educational publishers. His poetry appears in literary journals in the US, the UK, and Australia. Sean is Senior Academic Designer and Lead Writer with McGraw-Hill Publications. He has authored more than 50 books and hundreds of articles over the past 35 years.
Experienced as house-sitters:
Full-time year-round house-sitters since 2013, we have house-sat and pet-sat nearly 60 lovely homes and estates in Europe and the UK, South America, Central America, the Caribbean, North America, and the Middle East.
Experienced with animal care:
• We have extensive experience raising, caring, treating, diagnosing, and humoring cats and dogs over many years. We adore them; they grow quite attached to us.
• We have extensive experience with farm animals (chickens, geese, sheep, cattle, horses, donkeys), pet birds, and a variety of other pets (snakes, lizards, tortoises, rodents, even bees). Charles was raised on a quarter horse ranch and has years of experience in all aspects of equine (and some bovine) care.
• We have experience living cheerfully around wild animals. We have worked on scientific expeditions in several remote corners of the planet as assistants for wildlife biologists, geologists, marine biologists, and on archeological digs in wildlife preserves. In Colorado, our rental homes were high and remote, with few people but with neighbor bears, deer, coyotes, mountain lions, foxes, and many many deer, etc.
Experienced living abroad:
• We have traveled in 66 countries, housesat in 14 countries, and have lived on six continents.
• We are confident, well-educated, and experienced managers.
• We are aesthetes, appreciating and caring for others' belongings.
• We love animals and they love us.
• We are educated, open-minded, creative, easy-going, warm, and diligent.
• We are excellent communicators.
• Between us, we can function quite well in Spanish, German, and French.
• Our ongoing online careers allow us to live in any country that has reliable internet.
• Non-smokers.