One Christmas season a few years ago, my daughter, with an expensive round-trip airline ticket to Italy in hand, unexpectedly found her lodging plan falling through, writes Linda S. Haymes in Saturday's Style section.
Turning to her dad for help, he reassured her: “Give me 30 minutes and I’ll find you something.”
Her savior was airbnb, an online venue that connects homeowners with a spare room to travelers looking for a place to crash. See Saturday’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for details on what it’s like for Arkansas homeowners who have joined.