Note: LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO VISIT OUR HOME for 1 week or longer April to late May 2017, IN EXCHANGE FOR OUR LATER VISIT TO THEIR HOME. We are especially interested in Italy, France, England, or Ireland for spring 2017 (could be simultaneous) and for east of Seattle late August/early September 2017 (non simultaneous).
Open to SIMULTANEOUS swap offers for 2018 on.

Our home is well equipped for a pleasant stay in Alaska, offering you space in which to relax when you come home after an excursion. There is plenty to do around here in all seasons, but some guests have been so enchanted with the peacefulness of our setting that they have spent lots of time sitting at the windows or on the deck reading, listening to bird sounds, and watching for moose. We have wireless internet and a large LCD tv, plus lots of Alaskan videos and other DVDs for your leisure time.

Denali National Park is a spectacular place, but not the only scenic spot around. Go another direction from Fairbanks to visit a hot springs resort with cutting edge geothermal technology powering greenhouses plus a large building made of snow and ice and kept cold by the heat of the water. Or take a short walk through the woods from our house to visit a research station with caribou, reindeer, and muskoxen. Our house is surrounded by miles of hiking trails leading in all directions. If you come outside of the summer months, you stand a good chance of seeing the aurora borealis (can't be seen in the summer because the sky never gets dark enough!). Fairbanks is fun all year round.

Our frequent travel makes nonsimultaneous exchanges a strong possibility even though we do not own a second home.

We are not opposed to having older children here, but the two bedrooms are on separate floors and they have a queen bed and a double sofabed, so probably only smaller families with somewhat independent children would be comfortable here. That said, a family with a son and a daughter, both of college age, had a fine time here with the help of a comfy featherbed on the floor of the third bedroom which is used primarily as a quilting room. The house is not set up for children under five.