S07|18 - Travelling on a Budget with Kids: Worldschooling the Globe

Our family is off on a crazy school-year-long adventure of world travel! Travel has always been a big part of our life and journey… but we are now taking it to the NEXT level. We have spent the last couple of years living in several different locations and loving life but have always wanted to travel internationally with our family of 6… and we’re finally doing it!

Tune into this week’s adventure as I talk all about the last few years of semi-nomadic life, what got us started, and how we are *trying* to travel at around the same price as life would be back home. 

On this episode: 

• My travel origin story and the launch of my first ever TRAVEL BLOG
• 2017 is the year that everything started to shift for us, how we got started
• Travelling the world with our 4 kids, and how we are attempting to do it on a budget
• Tips and tricks for budget travel with kids: Airbnbs, flight trackers, and food

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Welcome to today's podcast episode, traveling on a Travelling on a Budget with Kids Worldschooling the Globe. 

Today, we talk about what got me started in traveling – kind of what my origin story is, and all you can read on my travel blog as well; we talk about our plan and what we're doing for the year, and I also give you some cheap travel tips for kids…I talk all about trains, planes, everything about Europe.

And I will also be adding a next episode, next week, all about how to regulate yourself…and find centeredness and peace and groundedness as you're traveling with kids. So, make sure to check in back next week for that much anticipated episode that actually a client asked me to put on, and I think is a great idea. So, I'm excited for that one as well.

 

So, welcome to today's podcast episode. I am excited to share this with you. I have had a travel blog in the works for a while. If you don't already know, I am worldschooling with my family. 

Worldschooling means traveling full-time as you travel around the world and homeschool. I guess it doesn't necessarily have to be full-time; I know some people that just kind of travel on-and-off that are worldschoolers as well, but traveling is the main basis of how you're homeschooling your kids. 

I have wanted to do this for a long time. I've been on this Facebook group about worldschooling for, I don't even know how many years, probably five or six years. And I've always kind of--   

This is even before coaching; and I remember like reading what people were doing and I remember thinking like, 'Well, how did they do it?' And I didn't understand like the logistics of it or how I could even get a job that would allow me to be able to do this. And it always seemed like this kind of distant far-out future thing that I never really thought was going to happen. 

So, I'll kind of tell you how we got into it, and then I will give some budget travel tips for how we're doing it as well. 

 

My origin story: What made me start traveling

So, years ago – we'll back up, back up – when I was a little girl…I loved to travel, I loved to explore. My favorite thing to do when I was little was just to be outdoors, doing something, anything – even if I wasn't with anybody else, even if it was just myself…I loved to be biking and feel the wind through my hair, be going through the forest, be walking, be outside building forts and climbing and running and playing. I just loved to be outdoors. 

I really wanted to travel, but we didn't do a lot of travel. There is 10 people in my family growing up, which is a lot. My dad was a full-time school teacher; he was really busy. So, we didn't do a lot of travel, for sure. 

We did some camping; we would usually do like a bigger trip once a year, but a bigger trip usually was still just within the same province that we lived in. We did do the occasional bigger trip, but they were few and far between and I always wanted more. 

In fact, at one point, my dad found some opportunity to apply for a position in Japan; and I was like, 'Please do it…please do it.' And he actually looked into it, I think just because I was convincing them so much – because I wanted to move out of my hometown so much because I just loved change. And anyways, it didn't work out in the end. But my dad always tells people that he was almost convinced to move to Japan because I wanted it so badly. 

But I've always just had this part inside of me that wanted to travel, that wanted to explore; it was almost as soon as I became an adult and had a car and was old enough to drive and to leave the country on my own, it--

Actually, I don't even think I was old enough; I think my mom had to write a letter because I was going with some friends of mine and I wasn't quite 18. I graduated when I was 17, so that I could cross the border into the US and go with my friends on this trip. But I just always, always wanted to travel. I always just loved the idea of road-tripping and traveling. 

If you know anything about personality type testing, I love all the personality type tests; I take them all the time because I think they're so fun – that's why I created the Parenting, Find Your Parenting Personality Quiz you can find on my website, all over the place. You can also find it in the show notes here because I just love personality, everything. 

So, if you know the Enneagram test, if you've heard of Enneagram, you can either just self-identify; you can read about the different Enneagram types and kind of figure out what you are yourself, or you can find a free test online. 

I'm an Enneagram 7; and if you know about Enneagram and you're like, 'Yeah, I love it,' go look on Spotify under Atlas, Sleeping at Last…and look up their songs about the Enneagram, and listen to your number song. 

And if you want to learn more about me, all you have to do is listen to the Enneagram 7, Sleeping at Last Song on Spotify…and every single word is me. I've never felt so described or explained or understood by a song before. It's wild, and I love listening to it. 

So, something about Enneagram 7s, which is what I am like, is that being stagnant or being unchanged feels kind of like slowly dying inside. I don't mind having roots, for sure, but I just love change. 

And so, when I was a young mom and an older mom-- I'm not guessing, I'm not that old – but like less not as young of a mom, I loved to just change things up in my house. We'd like renovate, we'd totally overhaul an entire bathroom or our whole basement or we'd paint stuff or we'd change around furniture. My husband would often come home, and I would've like redesigned everything because I just love change – travel being one of them.

So, when I was growing up, it often felt like I just wanted-- there was something more inside of me that I wanted, and I just didn't know how to get to that because we were always in the same hometown. 

And then I moved to another university, which felt like a breath of fresh air for a while – but then after living there for a few years, I was like, 'Hey, I want some change.' 

But when I married my husband, he really wanted to go to that same school that I was about to graduate from. I had a couple years left – I think one-and-a-half years left – and he was like, 'No, I really want to go here too.' So, we ended up living in that town for such a long time. And it's not that I didn't love that town; I did, and I loved my friends. I loved being close to my family. 

 

How we started traveling

There were so many great things about it…but I also just really craved something more, some more changed. And so, for most of the years of our married life, I really made travel an important part of our life. I wanted to teach my children from a young age how to travel well. 

And so, I would go on road trips with them even when they were babies, like little babies; and we would just get used to traveling. We would get used to traveling without screens. We started before screens; but even when they came up, I was like, 'No, we're just going to get used to having nothing because that's just how I want to travel. I want to just listen to music, I want to talk, I want to play games.' 

And I just really felt like if I trained my children to be able to travel well without always having to need like a device or something external to keep them happy, that they would be really good travelers; and it has worked. I've been doing it for years, and they're great travelers now. 

So, anyway, even when they were little, we would go on these big huge road trips. I remember one of them, we were living in Alberta at the time when we drove all the way down to the Grand Canyon for my 30th birthday. And we stopped at a bunch of places, stayed for a long time; I think we were gone for three or four weeks. 

Another time we bought one-Way tickets to Hawaii and we stayed there for a month. We only had two kids at that time. It was in between my husband graduating and getting a job. And then came back again once we found a good seat sale to come back. 

We did all the way along down the coast, the Pacific coast…the western side. And I guess the Pacific Coast is the western side, there you go. And we've done just a lot of really big trips like that. 

In 2017 is when we really started being a little bit more transient. I always wanted to travel; I talked about it a lot. I talked about like renovating a school bus, and traveling around in that – or traveling around in an RV, or traveling around the globe. 

Like I said, I was a part of these Facebook groups for a long time, so I talked about it a lot with my husband. By 2017, he was also itching for something different; he wanted a change. He didn't love his work; he was a commercial account manager at a bank at that time. He was just kind of fiercely loyal, and so sticking to it anyways even though he didn't enjoy it.

And I started homeschooling our kids. I'd been homeschooling for a while, and I followed this philosophy called Leadership Education. And one of the bases of it, is you inspire your children to want to learn by you following your own learning path and being an example of what's possible for them. 

And when they see that from you, they are inspired and they want to figure out what they love; they want to figure out what they want to uniquely do. And they want to change the world in whatever their own unique way is. 

And so, as I'm discussing learning and teaching the kids about this homeschooling philosophy and I'm starting to change my life doing this…my husband is like, 'But I don't like what I'm doing, why am I the one that's just like here at this job that I don't feel passionate about?'

And I was like, 'Hey, well, change it up…what do you want to do?' 

And so, he decided to go back to school again. He decided to get his Master's. He chose a school that was on the other side of Canada; we moved over to Quebec. If you have been listening to my podcast since the beginning – you can go listen to Episodes One, Two, and Three, where I talk a lot about this story and about us moving over to that side of the country. 

And so, leading up to this, I convinced him, over the course of a while, to buy a RV and a truck. I planned on renovating the RV also, and to travel around the US for as long as possible before we were moving – because I was like, 'We already have to move to the other side of the country…we're already going to go there, this will be a really easy way to do it.' 

So, we sold most of our belongings, we bought an RV; we did not do as much renovation as we thought. We actually taped up around the cabinets where you would paint. We were just about to put the paint on them, and we were like, 'This is going to take a really long time, and we're leaving in not very long and we have a lot to do still.' And we took the tape off and we're like, 'No, we're not doing it.' 

So, we did change some things…change up the upholstery, added some décor. It wasn't a huge trailer; it was kind of a little older trailer, but it suited our needs. Packed up all our belongings, traveled around the US. 

We loved that first stint of travel because we didn't really have a lot of plans. We had a couple places we needed to be a few different times – but for the most part, we could kind of just drive wherever we wanted and stay there for as long as we wanted. And if we found a spot that we loved, we'd stay there for longer. 

We did a lot of-- There was a-- There was an app, I think it was called Free Camping…no, it was called AllStays, that's what it was called. And you could like see where there was like Walmart parking lots or Cabela's where you could sleep in overnight. I know not a lot of Walmart parking lots let you do that anymore, but Cabela's I think still do. There's a lot of rest stops you could stay at overnight. And then it would also give you reviews on campgrounds so that we would know which ones to stay at.

And so, we could usually do three, four days without having to plug in our battery with our RV. So, we would kind of just go on the road, stop whenever we'd want to stop, get lunch whenever, or sleep over wherever…and then just kind of go until we find an awesome campground, and we'd stay there.

Fast-forward a while, I actually asked my kids what their favorite place to live was of all the places that we'd lived in. And every one of my kids at this age, this was a few years ago, said that the RV was their favorite house. Out of like living in a big house, living out in the country, living in the city…They were like, 'We loved it.' And I did too. It was awesome. So, that was kind of the beginning of our journey. 

 

The changes and opportunities we experience in our earlier years of travel

We moved to Quebec, we moved a few places around there due to internships and a couple other things. So, there was a lot of change that was happening over there. And then we came back again to Alberta when we were done. 

My husband got an internship in Alberta, and that was when he decided to start his own online business. He works at the platform called Kajabi. They pronounce it Kajabi in the US. So, he works with them doing people's websites and landing pages, and we are affiliates for them; and we love that company and that platform. They do our website, email, a bunch of different things. 

So, that's what he does now. And that kind of came because he was like, 'You know, I have this idea and I think this idea might work…and I know that you've always wanted to travel, and the only way that we can travel is if I figure out how to do something online – and this might be it.'

And I was really nervous. I was worried about it, especially because, for a time, I was going to be the primary breadwinner off my Parenting Coaching business that had only been up for a couple of years. 

And I was like, Ooh. I was feeling a lot of pressure, which is interesting because I'd never really felt that before. It was the first time that I felt really a lot of compassion and understanding for what he had gone through for so many years in feeling that pressure to be the sole provider financially, physically. 

So, anyway, that's kind of the transition that we went through. We started out really glamorously in my parents' basement. My parents called us and were like, 'We hardly saw you during COVID.' You know, we weren't really allowed to go anywhere, so we didn't really visit anyone during that time.

They were like, 'We'd love to have you-- we just bought this house and we're going to be renovating it, come and stay with us.' 

So, we went and lived there in their basement for five months while they were renovating, and it was so fun. We loved being there for the summer; it was a great experience, and we honestly had no idea where we were going to go. 

But we just wrote down a list of like where all the things we'd want to visit, want to travel; and pretty much all the countries in Europe were the first thing that came up for me. He wrote down Southeast Asia. He went there in high school, and he's always wanted to go back. 

But as we looked at that list, we were like-- This was still deep in the throes of COVID – things were starting to come out and be a little bit more normal, but they still really weren't yet.

And so, we were like, 'I don't know what we can-- what we can do…and if we can even do this, what if we go to another country and then it's totally shut down.' We had a friend that that had happened to where they couldn't even leave their apartment, and they were in another country. 

And so, we were a little bit nervous about that; and we hadn't really made a decision, but we had written down this list of places we wanted to see. 

And the very next morning my aunt and uncle called and were like, 'Hey, we have this Airbnb house, we need some help renovating it…do you want to come rent it from us? Help us renovate, live in it over the winter; we don't get a lot of guests over the winter, anyways.' 

We looked it up, we're like, 'Yes, this is beautiful…it's on Vancouver Island, it's amazing, we love it.' And we thought it was a perfect spot to start our traveling adventures. So, we went over there for seven months. We hung out in their house, helped them renovate. 

It was still very COVID-y…especially in BC, things were still pretty shut down over there. But it was beautiful. We did a lot of hiking, and we just did a lot of exploring outdoors and nature…and we had a lovely time. 

Same thing; we're there, we're needed to leave at the end-- at the spring that year. And we didn't know where to go. And we, again, we took out our little list and we're like, 'Where should we go next?' Still not sure if we really wanted to travel internationally yet. We had it in the back of our minds, but we were also just not sure logistically if it would work very well yet.

And so, we got this opportunity through a friend's parents who were moving out of their house, and they were going to be gone for a year-and-a-half…and they wanted somebody to rent it fully furnished. And it was out by Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta; and if you've never been there, it is beautiful. And we were like, 'Okay, we'll go there.' 

So, it was a little bit longer than I had wanted. I was hoping to just stay somewhere for like six months, and they'd wanted somebody for that whole time; and I was like, 'You know what, that's fine.' And it ended up being just a beautiful, magical, lovely place. We loved being there. 

I'm glad we were there for that long; we were really able to work on our businesses, work on our family relationships. I spent a lot of time outdoors, which is definitely what I needed at the time. So, it was just really perfect timing for us.

 

Our plan, and what we're now doing for the year

So, then fast-forward to what we're doing now…again, we're in the same position where we're like, what do we do next? And we were kind of looking at potentially buying a house. 

In Canada, as an online entrepreneur or an entrepreneur of any kind, you need to be working for two to three years minimum in order to get a mortgage. And so, we weren't quite at that together. 

And so, we were like, 'Hmm, we might need to wait a little bit of time, not sure.' And we also couldn't agree on where to move next. So, we'd printed off this map of North America, and we had circled like all the things that were important to us…like we wanted to be close to a homeschooling community, we wanted to be not too far from our family, we wanted to be close to a Costco because we really like Costco. 

And we were like, 'Hey, what else do we need?' 

You know, we want it to be beautiful, nice weather. There was just so many options that it was kind of hard to narrow down; and the more that I looked at it, the more I felt confused. 

The more I know about intuition, especially how I work intuitively, is that my answers never come to me logically from my headspace. They don't come from thinking about them, and thinking out all of the options and looking at all the pros and cons, which is how I used to make decisions. 

That's not where they come. They come from this like gut instinct feeling. And there was something just confusing that kind of just felt too much out there every time we thought about it, and it just didn't feel like it sat right. 

In the meantime, we had planned this big trip to Hawaii with our kids for a month; and so, we went there…spent some time there. It was the first time that we had all flown anywhere together. And so, it was the first time that we'd taken all of our kids on a flight, and it went pretty well. 

And we were like, 'You know what? I think we could actually do this a little bit more long-term.' And at some point, I remember considering travel and what we were going to do the next year and thinking, 'If we don't go do this like big world, kind of, worldschooling global adventure now, we're going to do it without our oldest son,' because this was his Grade 12 year.

 

Budget travel tips & general travel advice

And so, we decided to take the leap and start looking into it. But we also knew we don't have loads of funds. It's not like we can just go wherever we want, whenever we want. So, we decided we were going to travel with our four kids around the globe on a budget. 

And by on a budget, I mean we wanted to keep it fairly close to what our cost of living would be if we were to stay in Canada. We were probably looking at rent at around $2,000 a month-ish, maybe a little bit more. We wanted to keep that--  

I don't know exactly what all of our expenses would've added up altogether. I'm sure my husband has a spreadsheet for that because he always does. But we kind of wanted to keep like, 'Okay, this is kind of what our accommodation would be ish, can we live in other countries for around that or less or maybe a little bit more but not like totally blow our budget?'

And obviously, our airplane tickets are going to be a little bit more but not like flying all the places all the time. And so, we decided to give it a go; and, here we are. I will give you some of our-- some of our cheap travel tips. 

We knew that we wanted to try and make it all the way around the globe. We initially started with Southeast Asia because it was less expensive than other countries. But the more we looked into it, the more the prices have actually increased. 

So, at the time of this podcast, which is in 2023 – fall, winter 2023 – the prices are not too much less than what they are in places like, in the countries we were looking at in Europe…like Greece and Italy and Spain and Portugal. 

In the past, they have been much cheaper, which is why we started there. So, we were like, 'Maybe we'll go other places as well.' 

And then it kind of ballooned into this, why don't we circumnavigate the whole globe? Why don't we start here and end here, and go all the way around in one direction? 

So, as I was looking for flights, one of my tips is, look out from other places. And so, New York has a big hub; they travel all over the place. And my sister and brother-in-Law live in New York. And so, we started looking out from New York because the flights we were finding at Calgary at that time weren't great. 

We also could have waited because there were some seat sales that came up since then. But I hadn't really looked at travel as intensely as I had done before so I didn't really know the ups-and-downs of flights. And so, I really believe that if we had not been so trying to book things so quickly, we, for sure, could have found a flight out of Calgary as well.

But fast-forward, we found our flight to New York; it was about 230 Canadian, which is like 170-ish American. And then our flights over to Greece from New York were around 300, so it was pretty inexpensive for our flights. 

And we stayed for a week in New York. That one was definitely not as budgety as another place would have been, but we wanted to go visit family as well. We went for a couple days in England, and this one we kind of just did like a longer layover. 

We just contacted the airline company and for an extra, I think it was 100 euros (€100), they let us extend the layover for a few days instead of a few hours. And then we just toured around there. 

We actually just rented a van; we were able to find a pretty good deal on a big van. We just googled like cheap rental cars, and were able to like get it through a secondary company, I think it was called Discover Cars. 

So, anyway, so we were able to get a pretty inexpensive deal there with that company. And then we flew to Greece; and the reason we started in Greece is because through the Worldschooling Community, we were able to find a private rental for 400 euros a month…she just rents it out to worldschooling families. 

It's fully furnished, again. So, we were like, this is perfect. 400 Euros (€400) is like 700 Canadian, so it was a really good deal for us. We went over there; we toured around, kind of had that be our home base. 

When we were planning our tours, we would try to do them pretty inexpensively. So, instead of like joining a tour bus, we would rent a car; and instead of renting a big huge van, we would rent like two smaller cars so that we could get out-and-about a little bit more easily.

Another, kind of, travel hack as far as finding accommodation is that we look for a place about an hour outside of a big city so we can easily get to an airport without it taking too much time for us, but that we can have it be a little bit cheaper because it's not right in the city. 

So, for instance, right now, we're in Italy; and we're about an hour outside of Rome instead of being in Rome, so it's cheaper. 

Also, if you stay somewhere for a month, I always look on Airbnb for places that are going to give me a huge monthly discount. Some people don't give you any discount for staying for a month; some people give you 5 or 10%; some people will give you as much as 50, 60, 70% if you stay there for a month. So, I just looked around on Airbnb until we found a place that, kind of, fit in those parameters.

And then, we also decide just to take public transportation as much as possible. We only rent cars if absolutely necessary, and we try to avoid things like Uber as well as often as we can and just learn the public transportation metro system in whatever area we are going. 

Another thing that we've looked into is train passes. And if you are not picky about what time of day you're going on the train, you can usually get some pretty cheap passes. We found one's for as cheap as 9.90 euros (€9.90), like 9 dollars and 90 cents euros to get to-- get to get from Rome to Florence and Rome to Venice, which is really great. So, we'll probably do some day trips out-and-about also, we haven't planned everything there.

We're doing a little out trip to Paris because we were able to find tickets there for 20 euros each way. And we're not going to be bringing all our luggage so we don't have to pay for extra. 

So, the budget airlines are really cheap, but it's quite expensive to add things like luggage for most of the places. We did just find a company called Pegasus that was a little bit cheaper, but most of the places…it's quite expensive to add your luggage, and so sometimes it can be just as much as a regular airline. 

And so, when we're going to Paris, we're just going to leave all of our stuff here, take a little bag-- We got these Osprey Daylite packs, and they fit right in front of the seat in front of you so you can just put a few pieces of clothing in them and do a quick overnight trip. So, that's working well for us too. 

 

The other-- The last travel tip that I will give is that if you use things like Google Flight Tracker or Skyscanner, you can just track the flights that you want and wait for them to be less expensive. And if you're willing to be flexible – flexible in where you're going and when you're going – a lot more options will be open to you. 

So, for instance, we were planning on going onto this big like, kind of European rail trip. We were going to go to Florence and Venice and Budapest and Turkey, and then we were going to fly from Turkey to Southeast Asia. 

We're only going from Turkey to Southeast Asia because that was the cheapest flight that we could find going to Southeast Asia from anywhere in this general area. 

So, we knew we needed to make it to Turkey by December, and so we started looking into our options; and as we looked more and more into that, it was looking less good because if you add like a sleeper coach or if you add first class so that your luggage can be with you kind of locked up in your own little area, instead of just being out-and-about…then it just keeps adding and adding and adding fees.

And so, it ended up being a lot cheaper just to fly directly from Rome to Turkey. And so, we have to skip Budapest, which I'm sad about. But I also feel like flexibility has been the way that we're able to keep our budget down and to be open to other things. 

So, if we had found a more expensive place in Rome or in Greece, we might not be open to flying for just a few days to Paris because we are spending a lot on our Airbnb in Paris. 

And so, doing little things like that has been able to keep our expenses pretty low; we haven't had to spend too much. 

We're trying to eat out a lot less. We ate out a lot in Greece because food was so inexpensive. But it definitely still adds up. And so, we're starting to eat a lot more at home. It has been easier here; there's a lot of markets really close by. The kids have really liked the food in Italy, and so things have really worked out well for us here in Italy so far. We've only been here for a week. 

Besides that, I got pickpocketed, that did not work out well. I thought I was good; I had like this front zipper, kind of, pouch container thing with my wallet inside of it. But they were able to unzip it, grab my wallet; and I didn't even notice. 

So, in just a few minutes, like I just used it and went to check a couple minutes later…and it was gone. So, I don't even know how that happened, but they were really good at what they do. 

And so, my tips for that, now that I did not do this, would be to just use your cell phone and just use like your Apple Pay on your cell phone. And then have your cell phone on one of those cell phone carriers, like in front of yourself – or to just use one of those like underbody cover pocket things. Like you can get one if you Google it, they actually go underneath your clothes…like next to your body, and only bring what you need to bring when you when you go out. 

Luckily, it was only me that got pickpocketed, so we still have some credit cards and money that were not in my wallet, which is nice. And we will figure everything-- figure everything else out.

One other thing I'll add because I was not able to find the answer to this when I was looking for travel, is that you can easily get sim cards in other countries. I can't keep my same cell phone number, but I parked my cell phone plan. 

And then when I'm in a country like Italy or in Greece, I just go find like a really cheap sim card; and I've been able to find one's for as cheap as 10 to $30, including almost all unlimited data…and also some minutes within that country, and sometimes within Europe. That's something that I didn't know about before we got here, and I was like looking for the answer for. So, hopefully, that helps you. 

So, that's our plan. We're headed to Southeast Asia next; and we are still going to try and do the same thing, staying within an hour-ish of more touristy big spots…and trying to do public transportation, and just allowing where we're going to be really flexible based on the accommodation we're able to find that works well for us – and we're going to keep at it. 

So, if you have any travel questions, I would love for you to ask them to me; you can email me at [email protected] or you can reach out on Instagram. I already launched a travel blog, by now. 

By the time this episode is published, the travel blog will already be published; and I'm going to be sharing tips like Doing New York with Kids and what to do in Athens. And we'll be talking about Zakynthos in Greece and all the different cool places that we went to, and tips for each of those because I can't talk about every single one of those on the podcast – but I would love to answer your questions. 

So, check out my travel blog; and also check out next week's episode where I'm going to talk all about Emotional Regulation for yourself, how you can find a sense of groundedness as you're traveling with kids. And I especially find this really helpful if you're traveling long-term with your kids. So, make sure to check that out next week, and we will see you soon.

 

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