Over and over, before we even set foot on this trip, I wondered, “Should I even go to Bali? Bali’s just not me.” I’m so stoked that you stuck around for part 2 of this blog because part 2 is so much better than part 1!
Over and over, before we even set foot on this trip, I wondered, “Should I even go to Bali?” Bali’s just not me. We knew better. I’d already learned this lesson (4 years ago in Nicaragua) and I didn’t feel the need to learn it again. On April 23rd we traveled from New Zealand …
November 2, 2017… I have a motto (one of many)… “Wake up excited to start each day.” Today, I didn’t abide by that motto because we were headed to Barcelona. I know what you are thinking, Who wouldn’t be excited to see Barcelona? Well, me.
We’ve been traveling the world for 8 years now. My husband doesn’t (or at least didn’t) like to travel. It caused a lot of stress on our relationship because I wanted to travel and he didn’t. Now, he loves it. In this blog I am sharing steps you can do when your spouse doesn’t want …
Before I was a nomad I was a “regular homeschooler”, which meant my mom made me learn about traditional subjects like English, math, science, history, and my favorite—geography. I was intrigued by geography and still am to this day. I liked learning about different places and what they were like. I was interested in …
We sleep on forest roads as often as possible. We get stoked upon finding a huge pullout to sleep at. We get lost in the middle of nowhere, with not a person in sight, blazing a campfire, and staring at the stars. We drive our rolling home down bumpy dirt roads for miles on end …
Oh, you poor thing, you live in an RV with your kids, I’m so sorry is certainly a thought that pops in people’s mind when I tell them that our family of seven lives in a thirty foot RV. Little do they realize that this conscious choice to live life as a nomad is driven …
Hell ya! I was thinking as I banked around the last bend of the paved bike path and saw the bar on the opposite corner. I was so excited to finally be to the bottom of the hill. As I come to a stop my cohort, my 16 year old daughter, Gabi, comes to a …
Living a nomadic lifestyle has its merits. No two days are ever the same, I see parts of the world at one time I only imagined existed, and the freedom of not being tied to material possessions leaves me with energy to nurture my own mind, body, and spirit. However, being nomadic can also …
When we first started traveling in search of sport climbing destinations, my youngest two kids were four and six years old. Old enough that they no longer required being carried in a backpack but not old enough to hike up steep hills or hike an hour straight to get to a climbing area (not that …
Is raising your kids to be healthy and happy important to you? It was one of our top priorities in raising our 5 kids. These 5 tips are simple, yet effective, in raising healthy kids. It’s not easy to raise healthy kids today. Between all the bad ingredients the food industry adds to our foods, …
Our family of 7 has been living out of our RV for the past 3 years. For the most part, we try to free camp on forest service roads and travel quickly from crag to trail. For a few months of the year we sit still in an RV park and enjoy the comforts of …
A dirtbag nowadays means someone who knows what they want out of life and will do whatever they have to to live that lifestyle. I want to raise my kids to love their life even if it means being dirty and having no creature comforts or security and here’s why.
We’ve been living in an RV for 8 years now and we are still huge fans of all the pros of living in an RV, but we’ve also discovered some cons to living in an RV, especially with all the changes in the world since 2020. Updated 2023. Eight years in and I still love …
We spend a lot of time on our road trips hiking with our 5 kids. At the start of each trip it was easy to get 4 miles out of them, but towards the end, the novelty of hiking starts to wear off and we have to get creative, especially with our then 4 and …
