Pulling up to a new exchange home after dark isn't like finding a hotel. Our GPS lists every hotel in a given town. After we plug in the address we cruise along until we see a gigantic sign marking the huge hotel building. It's all very easy and pleasant (until we enter the hotel room and have to sleep in the same bed as the previous 17,000 guests. Ewww).
Now try finding a rural swap home on a pitch black country road. The sad thing about the difficulty we had locating the house is the exchanger had actually sent us an email specifying that the driveway is not on the road used in their street address, but around the corner on a different street.
A more organized approach to locating the swap home is to go back to that listing that sealed the home exchange deal for you in the first place. Is there a photo of the exterior of the swap home? Print it! This would have saved us a lot of trips past said house. No exterior photo? Ask exchangers to send you one. Bring it with you. Or memorize it. In our case we had to call the swapper. Luckily she answered the phone and provided remedial instructions. And here we are.
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