Frequently Asked Questions

I have so many questions where do i start?

So many answers, where do we start? These are the most frequently asked questions with the short answers. We’ll go into more details about these as the year goes on.

Where are you going?

We don’t have the whole year planned yet, and there are more places on our list than we can visit in a year. We are starting in South America and working our way up to Central America in the first 3 months. Our European leg begins in April. From there, who knows?

Are you going to be working remotely?

No. This trip will be focused on our family adventure. Larson was philosophizing a few months before our trip and said, “One year feels like forever while you’re in the middle of it, but so short when you look back on it.” This will be our year.

What About School?

Technically we will be “home” schooling. Others who have done this call it “world schooling”. We will be teaching the kids to the best of our ability and believe this experience will teach them so much more than we can even anticipate.

How do you Pack for this?

We each have a travel backpack. We are planning our route to stay in moderate to warm weather and with the kids along, we won’t need to pack any formal wear!

What are you doing for Insurance?

I’m very surprised how many of you were concerned about this! We are getting world medical insurance. Our credit cards come with travel insurance.

What are you doing with your house/Stuff/Car/Plants?

We are renting the house furnished. After a decent amount of decluttering, the rest of the stuff was put in storage. Storage in this case was family basements - Thanks, Fam! The trusty old van was sold and we hope some new kids are feeding her as many snacks as ours did. Lastly, some very nice friends are plant sitting for us.

How long will you be gone? You are comIng back, right?

Our friend Dan said it best, “There is no end, but it isn’t infinite.” We have said we are going for one year, but we are open to the possibility that plans change and we may need or want to return sooner.