The Negatives of Long Term Travel
Can you believe that in December 2026 it’s been 7 years to the month since our almost 7 years of ...
Solo Female Travel – Finally!
I just got back from my first trip as a solo female traveller. My first since I met my husband ...
Do We Ever Get Bored Of Travel?
Do we, did we, ever get bored with travel or the necessities of a travel lifestyle? No. Travel is always ...
We Don’t Sell Links or Take Sponsored Posts on this Travel Blog (T&Cs)
On this travel blog, we no longer consider accepting sponsored posts. These are posts written by somebody else, or by ...
Digital Nomad Visas, With Kids
We were a long-term travelling family with kids for almost 7 years. During that period, digital nomad visas were just ...
Kung’s Cafe Laos, Vientiane, & Google Maps Restaurants
Finding a place to eat as we travel seems easy today using Google Maps with the attached reviews and photos ...
Scared to Travel the World?
I originally wrote this post back in 2012, weeks before we set off to travel indefinitely with our two children. ...
Overcoming Travel & Packing Anxiety
I overcame packing anxiety and travel anxiety in the last year or two. Through 7 years of travelling full-time, anxiety ...
14 Years of Travel Blogging – Lessons
I read a fellow travel blogger’s post this morning called “Lessons learned from 6 years of travel blogging“. It inspired ...
Travel or Stay Home? Decisions
I booked flights yesterday. We travel again very soon. The plan was for this to be a short trip. But ...
Why I Stopped Being a Digital Nomad
I stopped being a digital nomad after almost 7 full years on the road, quite a while ago now. I’ve ...
Not Giving Away Your Biometric Data at Airports
We’ve all been through airports as we travel and we all know what they’re like today. Photos, fingerprints, full body ...
Prepping (With a Travel Twist)
We went through Cyclone Jasper a while ago. We were fairly well prepared, but we should have been better prepared. ...
Where To Buy Books, That Isn’t Amazon
We stopped using Amazon in March 2025 and haven’t missed it at all. A lot of you out there will ...
Do We Regret Homeschooling Our Kids? Homeschool Regrets
We chose to homeschool over a decade ago. Today (2025) I have young adult kids. One attended school to just ...
How Much Money Can One Blog Post Make
How much money can a single blog post make? Some of mine have made thousands, some may have made tens ...
Parenting and Travel
This post is about learning to be parents on the road. How we handled parenting children while travelling for almost ...
Travel Blogging Today. What’s Working
After the Google apocalypse of 2024, traffic to this DA52 site, with no AI, no spam (maybe, wink emoji), and ...
Why Do People Travel?
People travel for many reasons. Individuals may love or dislike travel for diverse reasons too. Some people don’t enjoy travel, ...
Who are World Travel Family?
World Travel Family is the name of a website or blog belonging to the Long family, that’s us. I’m Alyson, ...
How To Make Travel Educational
On this site we talk a lot about “worldschooling“. It’s how our kids were educated on the road, learning from ...
World Schooling Travel Essentials
If you’re setting out on a world schooling adventure what are your travel essentials? Travel essentials are the things we ...
Worldschooling Mistakes Not To Make
Worldschooling is a wonderful way for kids to get an education, and it’s a wonderful lifestyle for the whole family. ...
Is Google Destroying Blogging?
It’s been a very tough few months in the blogging world. At the end of 2023 the HCU (Helpful Content ...
How Can I Make Money And Travel?
There are various ways in which you can make money and travel at the same time in 2025, blogging, any ...
Homeschooling on the Road. What Gear Do You Need?
Which things do you really need to homeschool on the road? (Some call this form of homeschooling travel schooling, road ...
HOW TO GET AROUND IN THAILAND
Thailand is a fantastic, easy, and cheap country to travel around. Thousands of backpackers, travellers and holidaymakers travel within Thailand, ...
Our Family Lifestyle, on the Road
This post is hard to write because our family lifestyle has very little consistency, nothing is fixed and the sands ...
2021 Blogging Income Report
This post tracks our blogging income for 2021, the second year of the pandemic lockdowns. I’ve been a full-time blogger ...
10 Things Kids Hate About Travel
My kids are big now. Bigger than me. Young people with minds and opinions of their own. I think it’s ...
14 Problems of Travelling With Kids
Problems of travelling with kids, oh yes, there are a few. Some consider them major problems, others, tiny inconveniences outweighed ...
How Much Money We Made Travel Blogging in 2020
I have never, in the 9-year history of this website, posted income reports. I find it uncomfortable to talk about ...
Is Travel Self Indulgent?
An anonymous commentator dropping their venom under a fake email address felt the need to call our travel lifestyle self-indulgent ...
Family Travel Trivia Quiz Questions
Quizzes, be they online, Zoom, virtual, or real-life are all the rage lately for a family game night involving adults, ...
What is Worldschooling?
Have you heard about worldschooling (AKA world schooling)? All the cool parents are doing it, it’s the latest buzz word ...
School Days Are the Happiest Days of Your Life – Is a Lie
My dad used to say that to me when I was a kid. ” School days are the happiest days ...
A Nomadic Family Lifestyle
We left home over 5 years ago to travel the world and we never wanted to go back. Becoming a ...
Options to Earn Money While Travelling
Travel can be one of the most important and incredible things you can do in your lifetime, opening you up ...
Nomadic Lifestyle (Living Hand To Mouth)
This is a post about what a modern nomadic lifestyle actually means. We enjoyed this lifestyle of freedom for almost ...
Digital Nomad Family Destinations- Choosing is Hard
If I were to ask you what you thought were the hardest parts of being a digital nomad family, what ...
Best Things About Travelling the World as a Family
A lady in our Living Differently group was telling me yesterday how a photo I shared had stuck in her ...
Living Differently. New Ways in Chiang Mai
We’re loving this city in strange and unexpected ways. I’m loving the Thai environment, the Old City of Chiang Mai ...