We've had 5 Christmases on the road in the last almost 6 years of full-time family travel. Another one is coming up fast and this one will be "at home" for the first time. Did you know we're almost home? I'm going to count this one as a Christmas while travelling too because returning to an empty house just days before Christmas, fresh off the plane with only the contents … [Read more...]
A Nomadic Family Lifestyle. What’s it Really Like
We left Australia over 5 years ago to travel the world. We never wanted to go back. We became nomadic travellers, a digital nomad family if you like and the lifestyle worked well for us. We visited around 50 countries, several of those 4 or 5 times. We've been to 5 continents and flipped between the hemispheres. We have two boys who became full-time travellers at 6 and 8 … [Read more...]
Living in Hoi An
Everything on living in Hoi An after almost 6 months here.This post started out in 2017 as a bit of a whinge about how dull it was sitting still for a couple of months but in our second month, after starting this post in the wee small hours, we went out for breakfast and a bike ride and I found myself falling under a car. Being alive and content in an ultra charming little … [Read more...]
Scraping By, Backpacker Mentality, Living Hand to Mouth, Digital Nomads
Time for another one of those rant posts. I love to rant and I love that you all pay attention. So stuff SEO and making money today, this is real, this is me. This morning I was checking my Facebook notifications, it's my job and I do it several times per day. I happened upon a post by a woman who shall be named Audra ( for that is her name, real or otherwise) wondering why … [Read more...]
The Hardest Parts of Being a Digital Nomad Family
This will be a short post. I'm having one of those unsettled days where I think far too much. I find it's often best to put troublesome ideas down in writing and share them. That way they're easier to acknowledge, process and move on. If I were to ask you what you thought were the hardest parts of being a digital nomad family, what would you answer? Would you think it was lack … [Read more...]
Living Differently. New Ways in Chiang Mai
We're loving this city in strange and unexpected ways. I'm loving the Thai environment sure, the Old City of Chiang Mai with its ancient walls, stunning temples and teak houses, the amazing Thai food and it's abundant availability, the clear blue skies and tropical heat, but I'm loving it in more than a tourist-sort-of-way. I'm loving living here and working here. I'm in … [Read more...]
Travel Doesn’t Change You, You Find Yourself
I get ideas for posts in all kinds of ways, sometimes I want to tell a story about some cool place we've been, sometimes I want to help or inspire, sometimes ideas just pop into my head and sometimes, like today, I get ideas from other people's words. Earlier this week I read a post about how this thing travel has changed somebody. It was a great post, but I didn't agree … [Read more...]
Living Differently, Uncertainties, Stories and Bookings
My husband (Chef) was on the phone to his sister. She asked where we were, what we were up to, where we were going next, "Well right now I'm eating breakfast in a hostel in Kuala Lumpur, but tomorrow? No idea" Yesterday our great-grand-nanna asked where we'd be next week. I said I didn't know. "And Alyson, are you OK with that?" "Totally." Does that feeling of … [Read more...]
Living Differently. Nomadic Travel With Kids.
This is an old post. It was written when I finally woke up to what we'd achieved, it was the moment everything changed for us and our website's following and monthly views started going through the roof. It was when I first came up with the concept of " Living Differently" and was meant to inspire and help others do likewise. Back then, 2016, I wrote: How many years have I … [Read more...]
Location Independent Family, Solopreneur, Digital Nomads….Freedom!
Things gradually changed here at World Travel Family, our blogs started to follow a new course and we're starting to truly be that thing, a location independent family. I thought I'd share with you what happened, how we made them earn for us and support our lifestyle. Maybe you'll take inspiration from our experiences, maybe you can pick up a few tips, maybe you can help us … [Read more...]