Family Adventure Podcast With Erik Hemingway

You already know we interview cool people right? If not, you have 29 other episodes you need to go back through and check out some of these radical family travelers. Today is no different! Today we get to hear from an extremely adventurous family who popped by to tell us how they wound up in the Dominican Republic (or the DR) building houses for less fortunate, and deciding which direction they are sailing off to in a few months. 

Get ready for an action packed episode! We are joined by Jen and Marc Konesco and they are super passionate about family travel! They had a long time dream to check out of suburbia, and ended up buying a cruising sailboat and heading out of Florida. They spent a season in the Bahamas, getting to know their boat and the family travel lifestyle and are currently in Costa Rica, volunteering at an orphanage. Good stuff!

This week we are joined by Sara and Michael, originally from Puget Sound in Washington. In 2011, they decided enough dreaming, let's start doing! They sold everything and climbed aboard their boat: Wondertime! They also left when their two girls were almost 3, and 6!  

This week's episode is incredible. There, I said it! We get to hear how Lyndy and her family made the leap after many years of dreaming. They now live aboard a sailing catamaran in Eastern Australia, and have plans to head out soon and sail abroad with their two girls.

This week we hear from Alyson Long from World Travel Family. They left for a 12 month, gap year adventure, and had such a fantastic time connecting and exploring, they decided to continue on! They are currently in London, re-grouping and refilling the travel savings account, and will be heading back out in a few months.

Today's show is a great example of how travel connects families! Melissa Frassoni was at a crossroads in her life. All the arrows were pointing for her to try something new. During that time, her dad, Bill, was heading out on what he thought was going to be a solo sailing adventure. He invited her along, she accepted, and their relationship was never the same!

On this week's show, we are thrilled to have Marina Kuperman Villatoro with us to talk about her life abroad. She left the US for a one year trip to Mexico, and now 14 years later, she and her husband live in Guatemala and run a consulting business for couples and families who want to travel to Costa Rica, Guatemala, and all throughout Central America.

Kimberly Travaglino joins us this week to talk about what their life has been like living and criss-crossing the United States by RV for four years. They left Florida on an open ended adventure and haven't looked back. In this episode, Kimberly talks about how she has adapted her road schooling to fit their lifestyle, some of the incredible sights they been able to see and more importantly, how it's impacted their family living a nomadic lifestyle!

In this episode, we are thrilled to be joined by Jamie and Rick Goodman, a father and daughter, who have a great story to tell. Through some family hardships, including cancer, Rick and Jamie were reminded how fragile life is. They made the choice to spend a month together, traveling through Europe and really trying to re-connect with each other. It worked! Travel seems to have a mysterious way of bringing people together through something as simple as getting out of your normal routine, your comfort zone and being forced to think and focus on another person. One of the best things they learned through their experience was how to be flexible! Through jet-lag and things not always going according to plan, they learned how to adapt to stressful situations.

Driving and camping from Argentina to Montana? Why not?! Listen in this week as Dylan Drake tells us how her family did exactly that. She and her husband Thomas had been living in Argentina, and when they decided to move back to the US, they thought the best way was to spend a year and camp their way through South and Central America!

Ever look at the horizon and wonder what it would be like to sail away? Today on our show, we talk to two self titled "academics" who did exactly that. They choose a lifestyle that was radically different from the normal to raise their kids and experience world cultures!   They will be the first ones to point out that it isn't always easy, it is in fact a LOT of hard work, but they can't imagine living any other way. One of the benefits they talk about traveling this way, is the chance to spend quality time in different cultures and countries, and really immerse into what's around them.

On today's show, we hear from the Hiller family and their unique way to live and work abroad. Jacob started an online business shortly after college which provides income as they wander the globe in a slow, deliberate way, soaking in the local sights from where ever they happen to be. They like to savor the countries they visit and since 2008, have been able to visit and explore 40 countries! Since having a baby in 2012, their travel has not lessened, but in fact Kalli tells us how she enjoys the travel that much more and how it's added an incredible dimension to their travels.   Good stuff!

We're excited to bring you this week's episode! Ruth Johnston and her son have taken a plunge that strikes fear into most single parents:   world travel.    alone.   with a 9 year old.   Ruth pulls  it off with a great sense of humor and light touch, as she truly tries to make the most out of the years she has raising her son.  Are they rich? No. Are they grabbing life with both hands and making memories with no regrets? Absolutely! They've been to able to see some incredible sights and even more importantly, spend some amazing time together building a bond that will last a lifetime.

On today's episode, we hear from Paige Conner Totaro about how her and her husband John, and twin daughters, took a step off the treadmill, and headed out for a year on the road, plane, train, you name it! They planned the first 6 weeks, and made up the rest as they went, not a bad way to go!

Here's a really cool family simply doing it......travelling through Europe by an RV that they'd sent over from the US!  Vincent and Martha have spent the better part of a year traveling Europe for a gap year and making memories and experiences that their children will never forget! We were able to interview them while they took a small break in Croatia, and they has some really practical advice on how they met, started their family and how they wound up adventuring together as a family.

Talon Windwalker made the decision to take his son and show him the world. What started when planning a 3 week trip to Africa, has turned into a lifestyle of travel. They've been able to share some incredible experiences all over the world, and took a break to talk to us about them. 

In 2012, Josh and Erin Bender made a life changing decision....since it's cheaper to live and travel than to stay in one place, why wouldn't we travel full time? Great question, and one they are not too interested in answering! They are currently preparing to start their second trip around the world, and they took some time with us before they leave and filled us in on how they make it possible. 

Elizabeth joins us from the campgrounds of Europe and from the family travel blog: "12 Months 2 Go". They have been living an epic journey all throughout Europe and into Eastern Europe for nearly a year! She and Kay shipped a US s"5th wheel" and Dodge diesel truck over to Europe and have been learning how to make it all work with twin 13 year old teenagers: Noah and Madison.

What an honor to have as our guests this week: Lainie and Miro from "Raising Miro"! This single mother and son have been adventuring and traveling throughout the Western Hemisphere for the past 5 years in a lifestyle they call: slow-travel. It's all about sinking in where you are and letting the culture and surroundings sink into you!

Sometimes people wind up in situations in life where they have to pinch themselves every morning to make sure it's real. Rough, huh? but someone has to do it! Listen as the Mariotti's tell us about their European adventures. Colleen & Ron, and their children Bianca, Max, and Henry, had a simple plan to travel to Italy to obtain their kids dual citizenship (Ron is a dual citizen) and it grew into an open ended epic journey that no one wants to end!