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Travel Beasts

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Welcome to the Travel Beasts Blog

“I wish I’d traveled less,” said no one, ever.

We’ve all seen those carefree young couples, Instagramming their way around the world, taking selfies in exotic locations, and just living that travel dream. Then you look around at your kids, your home, your abs, and you’re like “Obviously, we can’t do that.”

Or the families who sell all their worldly possessions, stuff their kids in an RV,  and go off-grid in an endless nomadic existence. Again, you look around at your comfy life, the job you need to fund it, and your at least occasional sexy time with your partner, and again you’re like, “Not a chance we’re doing that!”

Welcome to the club!

Is the life you’ve built keeping you from the travel life you really want? It’s an ongoing struggle to balance what are often opposing desires.

We long for incompatible realities, such as:

1. A familiar home AND adventures in the unfamiliar.
2. Stability in our careers and kid’s education AND the freedom to explore the world
3. Familiar friends and stories that root us AND new relationships and stories that broaden our horizons
4. Conventional success AND unconventional accomplishments that stretch our self-concept

Can there be a life that satisfies these opposites? Yes.

We are an American/Canadian family of five who weave epic family travel into crazy-busy established lives. From our home in Toronto and then Miami, we’ve spent 3000 days in the past 18 years living around the world in over 100 countries.

  • We love our home life with our careers, a business, schools, extracurriculars, friends, pets. But we thrive on the unconventional edges of where travel takes us. It is often a messy balancing act, yet we refuse to live in one world without the other. Embracing both a strong family rooting and global exploration has been the sweet spot where we have created our ultimate family life.

Without giving up your domestic bliss, we will show you how we did big trips, with far less planning and preparation than you might imagine.

-plan a summer adventure in SE Asia, Central America, the Baltics, Scandinavia

-live like a local anywhere in the world from 2 weeks to 3 years, from Tokyo to Guatemala to Paris.

-take an epic trip around the world – 32 countries in a year or 11 countries in a summer

Yes, even with a teenager or 3 in the mix. Even if they’re all girls.

For our family, being good at life includes being good at travel. Because we love it and spend lots of time doing it. We’ve tried a lot of different kinds of travel.

This podcast will focus on 3 things:

1. The Whys, the deep benefits of travel, especially for your kids

2. The Hows, all the tips and tricks we’ve learned from decades of world travel

3. The Stories, from places that may already be or should be on your travel dream list

We can’t promise that living and traveling on the edge of convention will be easy all the time, it surely isn’t. We can promise it won’t be boring and you’ll never forget it. But you’ll need another coffee.

Podcast Description

Many of us struggle with lives that are far from magical. We are overworked, over-programmed, and overwhelmed. Our lives have never been more full, yet somehow still feel empty. Something is missing. Is the life we’ve built keeping us from the life we really want?

With over 100 country stamps in their passports, this American-Canadian family of 5 have placed transformative travel at the center of their family culture. While staying rooted in their suburban life, they pulled-off 10 summer sabbaticals, 2 round the world trips, and even lived a few years in a developing country.

Because they have traveled around the world with their kids for 20 years, their unique perspective enables them to reveal the personal, career, and financial advantages these experiences have given them and their children.

At the very least, travel is the best way to inject magic into your family life without giving up your domestic bliss. More powerfully though, travel can transform you, your relationship, your kids, your family culture, and your legacy. As a travel beast, you will become the most interesting person you know.

We are all captivated by stories of an ordinary person who embarks on an epic journey, filled with adventure, exotic locations, fascinating characters, and emerges with the deep satisfaction of a life well-lived. Now, imagine this is your story…

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