You might be looking through these pages, listening to these families, and thinking to yourself: “That’s great for them, they already had: ______, they already knew: _____, that’s how they were able to make this family travel thing happen.”
There are most likely a million, probably more, excuses of why it is next to impossible to overcome the doubt and the naysayers, and simply stay on the path you’re on. I won’t argue with you there, it certainly is easier to continue doing what you’re doing. Chances are you have built a pretty comfortable life, a community, and you’re mid-swing in your career, what’s going to happen to that?!
I also won’t lie to you and tell you family travel is easy. There is simply no way that anyone can convince me that family travel is easy. It is anything but easy. If you are looking for easy, you may as well navigate to another website right now, because that just isn’t the case. Family travel is tough. It’s tough from the first steps, and there are parts all the way through where you a re wondering, “What was I thinking?!”
So what’s the point? Why bother with family travel at all if it’s so hard, so out-of-the-box, so risky? Because it comes with such an amazing REWARD! Because it is so rewarding to look back on what your family will be able to accomplish, how you were able to experience amazing adventures, see amazing people from around the world, and how you became something larger than yourself! That’s why, that’s what all of our 20-some-odd episodes are about. Families who reached high, had to jump a bit to get something off the shelf, and it paid off in enormous dividends that are really hard to measure.
“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” ― Pat Conroy
If you weren’t already different, at the very least curious about something different, you wouldn’t be on this page, and certainly not have read this far. So the fact you’re here says something about what you have planned for your family. for that I congratulate you.
This site isn’t designed to give you every travel tool you will need, nor do we want it to be, there are tons of sites that do that! We are simply a ‘nudge site’! We want to show you what’s possible and once you have been nudged, there will be no stopping you from your goal. You will overcome every obstacle, and dig and research and find the information to make your dream a reality. The best I could give you here, is what our episodes used to make their dream a reality. My goal is to show you what is possible and to try and encourage you that you are on the right trail. Family travel is incredibly amazing, life changing, and will turn your world upside down, and the point of the interviews is to show you that normal families can do incredible things.
Imagine your kids saying to you one day: “Thanks for being bold enough to have the dream!”
