“How do you do it?”

It’s the most common question asked:

• By young mamas pregnant with their first, hoping hard that their days of adventure aren’t drawing to a close
• By new parents with dark circles under their eyes, taking their first flight to visit Grandma
• By a Dad whose toddler is bouncing through a quiet museum
• By families feeling locked into their school or work schedules with only two weeks off each year
• By folks with teenagers who feel time slipping through their fingers and long for one last hurrah
• By families engaged in international adoption
• And people who’ve lost sight of their dream

But what they really want to know is…

• How we travel as much as we do with newborns through teenagers
• How to manage the logistics of travel with kids
• How to keep a toddler happy on a long flight
• How we get our kids to eat fried grasshoppers or tongue meat tacos when they’re served
• How to talk their kid’s school into an extended field trip
• How to turn their kids into FUN travel companions
• How to unplug their kids from a gameboy and plug them into real life adventures
• How to inspire their teenagers to love family adventures
• How to take that kernel of a dream and turn it into reality

Everyone has a dream

Many parents share the dream of traveling with their children:

• Climbing around Etruscan ruins in the hill country of Italy
• Snorkeling with your five year old and listening to him yell, “Hi Nemo!!” through his snorkel
• Wandering the halls of Europe’s great museums over a long summer holiday
• Driving across your own continent and back with all seven of your children
• Touring with Daddy’s band and being his biggest fan at every concert
• Sampling sausage at German street fests and mustards in Dijon, France

Everyone has a dream with their children. Then, somewhere along the way they trade their dream for the “reality” of life with kids and before they know it, they’re filling out college applications and have missed it. Too many people miss it.

You don’t have to miss it.

You can live your dream!

How do we know?

Because we are!

Keri Wellman is exploring Europe with her four kids from their base in Germany. She’s a fiction writer, a marathon runner, a laughing mother and has the soul of an adventurer.

Jenn Miller is in the fourth year of an open-ended world tour with her four kids, across three continents and fifteen countries, so far! She writes for the travel and home education markets, bakes a lot of bread and loves to climb things with her kids. She’s a second generation Gypsy Mama.

We’re here to tell you that you can travel with your kids and love it!

We’ll show you how!

You’ll learn the secrets!

Bottles to Backpacks: The Gypsy Mama’s Guide to REAL Travel With Kids is a book you’ll return to again and again as your kids grow, the adventures change and the dreams just keep getting bigger!

You’ll learn:

• The 7 P’s
• The One Bag Rule (and exceptions!)
• How to prepare for health care & emergencies away from home
• How to deal with jet lag, temper tantrums, picky eaters and scheduling difficulties
• To navigate taxis, ferries, trains, buses, planes & long lines gracefully
• Games to play at home to prepare for airport scanners, third world bathrooms & more
• How to develop a safety plan
• To talk the educational powers that be into granting you a long term field trip
• To quantify the learning that takes place outside the box in a way that the schools will credit
• To inspire your teen to LOVE family travel and invest in it
• To work up the guts to let your teenager travel alone for the first time

And SO much more. It’s 140 pages of travel wisdom, resources and encouragement from those who’ve “been there, done that” with every age group.

If you dream of travel with your kids, you NEED this book!

Are you ready for adventure? Get the book!

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Angela & Jason and their son Bode make up the team behind the site Bode’s Well.

This intrepid little family is off an an open ended adventure pursuing health, education and the life of their dreams!

We caught up with them and asked them to tell us a little bit about their life on the road.
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Sometimes, the most fabulous things that happen in life, in a family, happen beneath the surface. They aren’t loud, or showy or obvious in any way; and yet, they’re earth shaking.

Justin & Heidi Mussler and their kids eagerly hosted us for a lovely day in Jamaica Plain a couple of weeks ago. They took us to a street festival and we marched in a parade. It was perfect in every way, even the spring downpour that sent us all running for their house and a board game and to sample the chocolate they’d made after watching our chocolate podcast.

On the outside, they look like the average family, two kids, two parents with two jobs and a delightfully funky flat in a charming section of Boston.

But on the inside? There’s a revolution going on. They’re the force behind The Great Family Escape and they’re quietly revolutionizing their world. (more…)

A friend introduced me to Stephanie, in the virtual world, some time ago. I instantly loved her heart as a Mom, her zest for life and her passion to make the world a better place through the influence of her little family.

Then, when I found out what their “next big thing” was, we became instant friends.

Imagine renting your house, walking away from everything you’ve known to live in a camper and travel the continental USA for a year… with two toddlers, and a mission!

Tim & Stephanie Shaeffer and their girls, aged two and four, are the one family dynamo known as “Give Every Day” and they’re on a mission to do just that as they move across the country. (more…)

Awhile ago I had the great fortune to run across the website of a very interesting mother and son team: Raising Miro.

I read their blog, watched their podcasts and fell in love!

Hopefully you’ll be as inspired by their journey as we were: (more…)