Travel + 5 Kids + Real Life
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 […]
Reading Time: 11 minutes Thanks to our IG followers for voting this week on the blog post! Sometimes I need a little inspiration on what to put to paper for the week, so I appreciate the votes and love that you all are interested in our hopes of moving abroad! (In case you don’t […]
Reading Time: 6 minutes Current month 13: Location: Tokyo, Japan One of the big issues we face is learning how to deal with homesickness while traveling. How long does it take you to start to feel homesick when you are away from home? How do you deal with the homesickness? What do you start […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Here is my packing master-list of everything you need for full-time family travel. From the luggage we love to the everyday essentials, this list has it ALL! Our Luggage: Mama’s List: Clothing: Shoes: Hygiene and Makeup Products: Technology: School Supplies: Medical Supplies: Happy Traveling!! -Leslie
Reading Time: 8 minutes My heart bubbles with emotions and spills over at the thought of what the last year had brought our family. We’ve been so incredibly blessed, so protected, so stretched. We’ve been pushed to our max in many ways. We morphed and changed and grown and loved more deeply. Trying to […]
Reading Time: 14 minutes One of the frequent questions we get as a full-time travel family is how to deal with medical emergencies abroad. What do we do for travel health insurance? What do we pack for medical needs? (For a list of my medical kit, see the blog post here!) How do we […]
Reading Time: 7 minutes A Letter To Our Children: To my children Lucy, Grant, Lincoln, Harrison and Grace, We love you. Period. Yes, we dragged you away from what was a comfortable life. You had SO MUCH! A huge home that sat on a river, nearly an acre of land, a phenomenal community with […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our most important and difficult category: tech! This is what keeps us traveling because it is how we make money. We carry a lot of tech and probably always will. We have at least half of a checked bag just for tech items and we carry a lot in our […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes Let me preface that you could be FINE traveling without this at all! You can find all the things you need wherever you go (if you are in a touristy-enough or populated area). However, I carry a medical kit for a couple of reasons. I also included a couple of […]
Reading Time: 9 minutes Alright moms, let’s be honest for a minute. As excited as I was for full-time travel and all the adventure, I had a few big hesitations. One of them: leaving my closet behind! I know, that sounds vain. It is vain. However, I’ll bet in your closet right now you’ve […]