As you begin thinking about vacation and wondering if you can make a home swap happen, let me be the first to tell you, "Si se puede!"

Do you want to vacation in a flat in Florence, or a cottage in Canada, or a mansion in Mexico for free? The place to begin is to join a house exchange club. The good news is there are more than 70 clubs to choose from. The bad news is there are more than 70 clubs to choose from.

My family has exchanged our home 14 times in the past 12 years, however yoga flowed into my life only recently. So when my yoga instructor used the term asana, I pondered it for a few weeks and then applied the concept to home swap.

I write a lot about home exchange vacations because they've changed my family's life; I know they can change yours too.

Alone on a hilltop somewhere over the coastal town of Lerici, I prayed that the insanity I felt wouldn't prove permanent. Although I'd never believed in it before, the little bit of Catholic that was left in me was given real consideration to the notion of purgatory.

A Type-A personality obsessive planner/thinker/semi-regular doer, I thought I had considered all potential Italian disasters, feigned or real. Ha.

The world is increasingly accessible and travelers are more and more educated about their destinations.

Today, the United Kingdom will celebrate its first National Sharing Day, established by The People Who Share. This organization is a trail blazing movement dedicated to building a global marketplace of sharing.

If you're thinking of doing a home exchange, there's no better guy to get advice from than the founder of HomeExchange.com, Ed Kushins

UPDATE, 6/25: On Tuesday, CasaHop announced $1.2 million in seed funding from the likes of Lerer Ventures and hotelier Andre Balazs. Former Huffington...

This week, Love Home Swap is launching a brand new Facebook app, which will allow prospective members to browse and join the online community of swappers.