Six months into our family gap year, I reflect on the things that have surprised me the most about long-term travel and how our family has adapted (or not).

Halfway into our family gap year, we reflect on how we’ve grown, how we’ve failed, and what’s ahead.

We are documenting our journey with this interactive map. Read more about how to use the map to see where we’ve traveled.

This is a summary of our family gap year. Here we give an outline of our itinerary, our philosophy of travel, and what might lay beyond this special time.

In the second part of the “trifecta” series I discuss what we miss most about home after two months abroad on our family gap year.

In the first part of my “Trifecta” series, I discuss the three things I’ve found most beneficial about our family gap year and long-term travel.

Enjoy our first dispatch on the road. Here I talk about wrapping up our home life and doing a bit of domestic travel before flying to a new continent.

As we approach our departure, each family member’s unbridled enthusiasm for our year of travel becomes clouded with sadness for what we leave behind.

Taking a gap year required quitting my job. After fifteen years building a unique career, the experience promised to be surreal. This is how it went…

Our familiar life will end in 3 months when we kick off our year of travel. I reflect on staying present and engaged in this “lame duck” phase of our life.