“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.