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Travel or Stay Home?

I booked flights yesterday. We travel again very soon. The plan was for this to be a short trip. But ...
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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 ...
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The Negatives of Long Term Travel

Can you believe that in 2025 it’s been 6 years to the month since our almost 7 years of full-time ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Parenting and Travel (2025)

This post is about learning to be parents on the road. How we handled parenting children while travelling for almost ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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What is Worldschooling?

Have you heard about worldschooling (AKA world schooling)? All the cool parents are doing it, it’s the latest buzz word ...
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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 ...
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A Nomadic Family Lifestyle

We left home over 5 years ago to travel the world and we never wanted to go back. Becoming a ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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What is Enough Socialisation? – World & Homeschooling Socialisation

I received an e-mail from a reader recently. He and his wife were thinking of taking their child on a ...
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Travelling with Less Clothes and Dumpster Diving

Hi guys, greetings from London where we’re sweltering in the final throws of summer. We made the mistake of taking ...
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Does Travel Change You, Finding Yourself

I get ideas for posts in all kinds of ways, sometimes I want to tell a story about some cool ...
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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, ...
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Living Differently. Owning Less, Living More

4 amazing years of seeing the world, somewhere between 35 and 50+ countries each, an amazing education for the kids ...
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Living Differently

This post, and entire “Living Differently” series, was written when I finally woke up to what we’d achieved, and realised ...
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Who Reads Blogs?

Who reads blogs? Why do people read blogs and what is the point of blogging? A look at the blogging ...
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Hijabs and Sri Lanka

This morning at sunrise I sat down to my computer to start my work for the day. It’s what I ...
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