Travel + 5 Kids + Real Life
Reading Time: 11 minutes Airbnb For Family Travel Internationally Thinking of taking your family on an international trip? One of the hardest questions to solve is where to stay. Over 25 months of full-time travel as a family of seven we have visited over 30 countries and stayed in 33 Airbnbs and 18 hotels. […]
Reading Time: 30 minutes Thinking of traveling the world and wondering how to educate your kids at the same time? I’ve got your homeschooling how-to. Staying home from travel but sick of the rigid structure of traditional school? Let me introduce you to a homeschooling option. Forced home from traditional school by COVID and […]
Reading Time: 16 minutes You may have encountered certain buzzwords around family travel such as nomad travel, full-time travel, and travel forever. It sounds like a fantasy, right? Nope! Our family set out to travel the world over two years ago and we haven’t been back since! Often the first question we are asked […]
Reading Time: 11 minutes In a world of so much uncertainty, when will travel resume after coronavirus? Has COVID-19 killed the travel industry? What will travel look like in the future? Such big questions with uncertain answers. We’ve been isolating in New Zealand for over eight weeks now. Overall, we’ve been in New Zealand […]
Reading Time: 10 minutes Did we find what we were searching for in our two years of full-time travel? Five kids, 30 countries, dozens of flights, trains, boats, taxis, cars, and more. To say it’s been a lot of work is an understatement. How have we changed? What have we learned? Where Did We […]
Reading Time: 10 minutes Full-time travel results in many mishaps. We document some of ours for you to enjoy! As always, remember to be kind. We share our embarrassing moments to show you travel with a big family is real, raw, and often hilarious. Babysitting Fails in Asia We love to date. Traveling full-time […]
Reading Time: 6 minutes What a whirlwind, huh? This crazy virus is literally changing the world overnight. We are waking each morning to find more and more closures, border closures and crazy pictures from back home of empty store shelves and grocery store pandemonium. Meantime, things are pretty calm here in New Zealand. We […]
Reading Time: 7 minutes Why in the world would I write a post about something we all try to avoid: public bathrooms? Well, in case you are new to the blog, we have five kids! Our oldest is currently 12. This means lots of toddlers, one in diapers, and lots and lots of bathrooms […]
Reading Time: 9 minutes The close of another year. This is a special year for us as it is the close of a year traveling as a family full-time. We actually just celebrated our 19 month anniversary on Christmas! As a celebration of the new start of 2020, I want to share a recap […]
Reading Time: 12 minutes So you want to take the plunge? Join the crazy world of full-time travelers? You are lost on how to prepare to travel? What do you do from deciding this life is for you to heading out to your first destination? I’m going to do my best to give you […]