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Family Road Trip Checklist: What to Bring and What to Leave Behind

We’ve been traveling as a family full-time since 2018. While we have made international trips by plane, we spend most of our time RVing in North America. We’ve learned that road trips offer invaluable experiences that bring our family closer together. Family road trips provide a unique opportunity for family members to spend quality time […]

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Life Lessons Save Money RVing

Traveling As a Family: The Good, The Bad, and the Snuggly

Whether you’re planning to travel on a budget abroad or take a road trip a few cities away, traveling as a family can be a lot of fun, but along with the process can come some challenges. While we see plenty of Instagram-worthy travel moments online, we don’t usually see the lineups, change of plans, […]

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Life Lessons Save Money RVing

5 Ideas To Save Money And Have The Best Family Vacations: Summer 2023

If 2023 inflation is hitting your family’s summer vacation budget like the price of eggs at the grocery store this spring, you’re considering some ways to save money on your summer family vacations. A week at Walt Disney World, flights to Jackson Hole, the Ocean Edge Resort in San Diego, or an expensive stay at […]

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Family Travel Challenges: Continued (#5-#9)

Family Travel Challenge 5: The “Please, Please, Please stop talking about Pokemon” Challenge <insert your kids favorite thing to ramble about here – Minecraft, Frozen, Roblox… you get the idea> This one is more of a challenge for me than Celine. She’s easy going. I just need to have some silence in my life to […]

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9 Challenges to Family Travel (and how we pretend we don’t mind)

It’s time to explore the great outdoors with your kids, see the world, hike a mountain, learn some history, experience a dip in an untouched lake, or taste the world-renown delicacies of a new city, but so far, it’s taken 28 minutes to “Get your shoes on and get in the car,” and you’re now […]

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Life Lessons Visiting Europe

A Better Conversation Starter Than “What was your favorite part of Europe?”

I love that people ask our boys this question because it shows that they are really interested in seeing the trip through our boys’ eyes, but I’ve seen how this conversation starter question usually leads to silence.

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Life Lessons From RVing: Lesson 1: Always Put Gas In The Tank

It was a dark and stormy night… well, not really. I think it was actually a sunny clear afternoon the day we crossed from British Columbia, Canada into a National Forest in Washington state. We were heading to visit friends we hadn’t seen since college. At this point in time, we’d been on the road […]

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