Family Adventure Podcast With Erik Hemingway

A family who had enough of the '9-5' and only seeing their kids on the nights and weekends, took some radical steps and transplanted themselves in Europe! The Wagoner Family: Alan, Heidi and their kids, Lars and Anya decided to move abroad and are currently living in Spain. 

Want to take your kids into the global classroom?! That's what Jennifer and Tony decided to do in 2008 and haven't looked back. What started as a one year bike-through-Europe has turned into a lifestyle shift that has allowed them to travel virtually full time for the past 6 years. How epic is that?!  They have given their kids some seriously cool educational experiences, and through it all, grown closer as a family and definitely have no shortage of stories for the grand kids. 

Neil and Ronel and their two sons, Peter and Emile, were able to accomplish a dream that started for Neil many years ago in South Africa. He wished to one day taking his family on a sailing adventure around the world, and after many years of planning, saving, and sheer guts, he and his wife Ronel,  made it happen, and made a lifetime of memories in the process!

OK, so we get to interview cool families right? Their website says it best: "We are pilgrims on unpaved roads, living creatively, openly, frugally, outrageously to bring peace to the global fringe!" Andrew and Debbie Jones, have traveled extensively across Europe, North Africa, New Zealand, USA, Asia, and all places in between.

This interview was jam packed with useful information for inspiring traveling families! Jamie and Behan Gifford have been living aboard their sailboat with their 3 kids for over 5 years! They were kind enough to share some time with us from Thailand, and give us some insights on how they've been able to live a life millions only get to dream of!

In this episode, we get to meet Sean and Angie Shanks, who are some of the luckiest people I know! They sold their home and have been living in a converted motor coach, modified as their home, for nearly a year. They are traveling around the United States for an open ended adventure with their 4 children! We caught up with them in Austin, TX. and had a great chat. I really appreciated hearing what they had to say, and hope you will too! Enjoy!

These people know how to live! Steve and Cheryl planned for a long time, but instead of 'someday' they made radical steps to make their dream a reality. They bought a sailboat in Turkey and spent 2 years sailing it 17,000 miles back to Australia. They took some time with us and relived their trip from their home in Adelaide Australia.  They nailed it on the head so many times of why people should consider traveling in unique ways with their kids.  They have some very cool stories to tell about their favorite things from the trip.

Amazing.....I'm not sure there's another word to start describing what these people have done. Over 17,000 pedal-powered miles from North Alaska to the bottom of Argentina. Incredible! The Vogel Family: Nancy, John, Daryl, and Davy have ridden their  bikes through the entire Western Hemisphere.....the long way..... Nancy took some time to rap with us about the trip, how it all began, and some of the steps they took to make it a reality. Not easy, but nothing worth doing usually is. She tells about some of their highlights as well from the trip, and how her twin boys are adjusting to "normal" life after such a trip. She also is putting together a book called "Road Schooling" which will be packed with practical advice about educating your children abroad or while traveling for open ended adventures!

Ready to hear a cool family adventure? In this episode, Marc and Jane Adams explain how they left it all and took their family on an amazing round the world adventure by sailboat. They tell about the highs and the lows of their trip and how they were able to make it happen. Great stuff!

In this episode, Erik introduces himself and gives a brief history of how he and his family traveled abroad by sailboat, with NO ocean sailing experience. The Hemingway family thought they were only going to spend one year in Greece, sailing between a few islands, and call it good. 3 years, 17,000 miles, an ocean crossing, and a baby born abroad all added up to a much larger, epic adventure of a lifetime!