Tag: family travel
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Solo Parent Travel Tips and Tricks
We survived! In fact, this trip with my son was the easiest solo parent travel I’ve ever done, despite a few delays and setbacks. See below my high level takeaways and a few specific tips on solo parent travel. Read our next installment for the play-by-play, or our first installment for packing and preparation. Solo Parent…
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Traveling Alone with a Toddler: Preparation and Packing
Will you be traveling alone with a toddler? Are you starting to freak out? Well, here’s how I do it: the preparation, packing (one carry-on bag), and the reasons why. See our upcoming post to find out how well I did. It’s not my first long trip alone with my son, but it’s the first since…
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How to Convince Your Partner to Travel
“I really want to be a digital nomad, but my wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend isn’t convinced. What do I do?” This is one of the questions I’ve seen most often in nomad forums, and I’m answering it from the perspective of the partner who needed some persuading. David was raised in a military family, and the mobile lifestyle comes…
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How to Sell Everything You Own
Selling everything before we left South Africa was a long, exhausting, and informative process. If anyone is facing the same task, here are a few nomad selling tips that worked well for us and a few things I wish I’d known beforehand. Start Selling Early Yes, duh. But there are more benefits to starting early than just preparation.…
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Podcast Spotlight – Family Travel Resources
We’re featuring ourselves, as interviewed on Epic Education Radio. MORE IMPORTANTLY, we’re featuring the awesome family travel resources you can find on Epic Education Radio. Podcasts like these, more than anything else, convinced us to go nomad. Listening to current nomads talk about their lives helped us to put ourselves in their shoes and imagine what this…
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Two Unexpected Perks of Traveling with Kids
Our toddler is your average imp/angel combo. On a good day he gives kisses on demand, parrots everything we say in adorable toddler-ese, and helps smaller kids climb the stairs to the slide. On the same day, he might decide it’s a good idea to collapse in the checkout line and refuse to move, or slap me in the face for…
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Nomad Trade-Offs: One Day, Two Ways
You’re a middle class stay-at-home Mom. What is a typical spring day like for you, at home and on the road? What are the nomad trade-offs? It’s interesting to me to compare the benefits and difficulties of both lives–the trade-offs, habit changes, and general trends. This is my entirely personal comparison of the ups and…
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A Nomad Family Pack List – Mom and Kid [Video]
What does a nomad family pack list look like? Good question. Digital nomad pack lists abound, but nomad family pack lists are hard to find if you’re looking for actual product recommendations and not just “sun hat, toddler sandals,” etc. Sooo, here’s ours if you’re interested. We’ve found some bags and products we swear by. We…
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Digital Nomad Family Packlist – Dad [Video]
What does a digital nomad family pack for long term travel with a toddler? Not as much as you’d think. We’ve been expats for four years, but living a digital nomad lifestyle for three weeks and are living comfortably out of three carry-on bags – an eBags TLS Mother Lode Weekender Convertible, an eBags TLS Professional Weekender…
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Giving Up the Script: Selling our House to become Digital Nomads
We were done living lives crowded into the corners of Saturdays and Sundays. But how exactly were we going to disentangle ourselves from the script and become digital nomads? What kind of effort was it going to take write our own plot line through long term travel? Between September 2014 and September 2015, we sued someone to get…