Word: vacationers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neighbors could hardly help but notice the strange things going on at the home of the Preble Stravers in Bethesda, Md. Two days after the Stravers left on vacation, another family moved into their house, drove about in their car and frolicked on the front lawn with the pets. Meanwhile...
The Stravers and Thackers were merely playing the newest vacation game-home swapping. To enjoy a change of scenery while keeping all the comforts-and savings-of home, they simply traded houses, even leaving each other the second car.
Fair Exchange. Today, hundreds of families who have never met are throw ing their doors open to one another, allowing for long vacations that resort-hotel expenses would place beyond their means. Most of them discover each other through recently created house-swapping clubs such as the Vacation Exchange Club...
Shooing Sheep. In the search for the right vacation home, people occasionally work out triple exchanges. A few summers ago, a farmer from Republic, Ohio, wanted to take his family to Detroit to race a high-stepping trotting horse. But the exchange house the agency had listed belonged to a...
Some swap offers sound too good to be true. A resident of Turtle Cove, Jamaica, is willing to turn over his four-bedroom house with private beach, swimming pool set in a natural garden, car, dinghy and sailboat, plus the services of a butler, cook, maid and gardener. He wants...