In November of 2019, Stefan and I spent hours reading through HelpX hosts’ profiles to find the perfect stay in New Zealand. One day I found a profile in which the hosts owned a place with farm animals (pigs, chicks, ducklings, horses) and, most importantly, 4 dogs (!). The photos of little piglets on the profile sparked my imagination of my future self feeding baby animals with a bottle, and that was the number 1 thing I was excited about for our trip to New Zealand (you can ask any of my coworkers). So on January 20th, we were picked up by our new farm host, Jim, in a truck…