You may have heard of this new way of education called worldschooling, but who is actually doing it? Here is a list of amazing families who have been blogging or vlogging about their experience.
- Travelynn Family
- Sailing Trio Travels
- The Bumfuzzles
- Crazy Family Adventure
- The O’Briens
- World Travel Family
How do they travel? Where are they now? Why and when did they start travelling? Read more to find out in detail who is worldschooling, how they’re doing it and who helped start the movement.
Worldschool Families
| Family | Travel by… | Years traveling for | #of family members |
| TraveLynn Family | Road, Plane | 7 | 4 |
| Sailing Trio Travels | Boat | 5 | 3 |
| The Bumfuzzles | Boat, Camper | 10 | 4 |
| Crazy Family Adventure | RV | 5.5 | 7 |
| The O’Briens | Road, Plane | 2 | 3 |
| World Travel Family | Road, Plane | 6 | 4 |
TraveLynn Family
Jason and Jenny had always been adventurers, they travelled at every opportunity for 10 years before they had kids. Even once they had kids they kept going. Their kids, Arthur and Ezra, now 6 and 4 have traveled the first few years of their lives! They currently have a home base in the UK, but still travel a lot. They are exploring Germany right now. As a family they’ve been to over 22 countries!
TraveLynnfamily is the name of their great blog, and they are in the finalists of the brilliance in Blogging awards 2019 for it. They have also recently started a YouTube channel which is worth checking out. The family has lived in India, trekked in the Himalayas and travelled through Africa in a land rover and the kids are still so young.
Sailed Out Trios
Sailed out trios is a family of 3, who travel around the world on a sail boat! In 2015 the parents decided to homeschool their son Cole, sell everything so they could have a simpler life, and sail on a catamaran sailboat. This family has a very successful YouTube channel where they post vlogs and drone footage about what they’ve been doing and informational videos about boating. It has over 55 thousand subscribers!
They are sailing nearby Panama and Costa Rica right now. Even before they started their adventure this family of 3 had backpacked through Southeast Asia and traveled to Oceania. You can find all of their adventure on their YouTube channel.
The Bumfuzzles
Before they had kids Patrick and Ali Schulte, packed up their condo in Chicago because they wanted to go on an adventure, sailed around the world for a few years and have been traveling for about 17 years now. Their blog dates back to 2003 when they started their journey! Even when they had kids, that didn’t stop them from traveling.
Their Daughter Ouest is now 10 years old and son Lowe is 8, they were both born in Mexico and have spent their childhood on the road…or ocean, worldschooling. The Bumfuzzle family travels mostly around North and South America by boat or camper. They have a blog and Patrick has co-written a book called Live on the Margin. Their current adventure is boating around the Caribbean in a 1986 Grand Banks boat.
Crazy Family Adventure
This family started off having a normal life, living in a big house with lots of stuff, but then one day they decided to sell it all, move into an RV and worldschool their kids. They have traveled in an RV throughout North America with 4 kids, and 1 dog (used to be 2 dogs) for about 5 and a half years now! When they started their kids were only 2, 4, 4 and 6.
They had a hard time at the beginning with their RV because it was so big plus they towed a car behind it as their city vehicle. In total when they parked the RV plus the car was about 50 feet long. So after more than a year they got a smaller RV that was only 23 feet long. This family of 7 now has a successful blog, YouTube channel and podcast. They are currently in Florida spending lots of time learning about dolphins and turtles.
The O’Briens
The O’Briens, Suz, Ben and their 6 year old son Whit, have traveled to 21 countries over the past 21 months! In 2011 Suz started a business of selling decorative things on Ebay, and it became a big success. They started traveling in 2017 when Ben quit his job to help run the business. Since then they’ve traveled all around the Americas, Asia and Oceania.
They’ve got a blog and YouTube channel where they talk about their travels. The O’Briens prefer slow travel where they get to stay in one country for a few months and even enrol Whit in school there. Their most recent adventure is exploring South America.
World Travel Family
Alyssa and Chef, parents of sons Boo and D, were inspired to change their lives, so when they learned that travel is cheaper than staying home they decided to sell their stuff and go on an adventure. For the next 6 years they traveled around the world and worldschooled their 2 boys. They stayed longer in some places, and Chef would sometimes find a job to continue to afford their traveling.
Their blog is the go-to place for anyone wanting to learn more about worldschooling or traveling with kids. It’s got tons of great tips about everything from travel gear to homeschooling resources to their expenses. The family settled down in Australia now which is where they lived before they started full time traveling.
Worldschoolers that started the worldschooling movement
Here are some of the worldschoolers that I’ve come across that helped start the worldschooling movement. The Dennings, Lainie and Miro, the Pearces, the Millers and the Kings.
The Dennings are a family of 9 (7 kids) who spent over 12 years worldschooling. They’ve been in many interviews, and helped spread information about worldschooling across the world. They now have courses and meetups that help parents with worldschooling and for kids wanting to meet other worldschoolers.
Lainie and her son Miro, the founders of their website raising miro started their worldschooling journey in 2009. They have recently started their own business called project worldschool, where they plan trips for worldschool families or teens to help grow the worldschooling community.
The Pearces started traveling also in 2009 with their 3 daughters. They wanted to travel when had a wake up call and realized life how short life can be. Brandon (dad) is the founder of Family Summit Adventure, which has been very successful bringing worldschoolers together.
The Millers, started worldschooling when they sold all their stuff in 2008. The family of 6 were just planning on taking a gap year, but evidently it turned into much longer than that. The Millers have done lots of interviews, and Jenn (mom) is one of the co-founders of Family Summit Adventure.
The Kings are have been worldschooling since 2016. They started Worldschooling Central Travel which is their company that helps get worldschoolers together. They’ve planned lots of trips, and met lots of worldschoolers along their journey.
There are so many worldschoolers out there who have helped grow worldschooling and these are just the ones I know of, and follow.
Can Anyone Worldschool?
A lot of people can worldschool, and some can’t, but it all depends how you define worldschooling. Worldschooling can mean taking your kids out of school for a month to travel, and it can also mean traveling full time and , homeschooling or unschooling them, or putting your kids in schools around the world.
Deciding to worldschool and live nomadically is also committing to a new, different lifestyle. It’s a big change and will most likely change your life in many different ways. Worldschooling is a possibility for most families if it’s what they really want to do. If you don’t really want to then you’ll just come up with excuses for why you can’t do it.
Whether you’re a family of 2 or 10 you’ll need to find a source of income. Maybe you just save up or you can find work online, start a blog, YouTube channel or business. You will need to commit to working though. Selling most of their belongings and house, is the most common way worldschoolers can afford their first little bit. You’re going to need money to afford full time travel but then again you need money to live where you do now anyways. A lot of nomadic families have found that traveling full time is cheaper than living at home.
It’s a lot harder to be a full time worldschooler, especially if you have lots of kids but you still need to work. Being a single parent may be more challenging. Maybe you don’t want to leave family or friends, although you will always make new friends. You might find it easier to slow travel and enrol the kids in school where you are, then you can work when they aren’t home.
Worldschooling with a home base is also a possibility, in fact a lot of families do this without even knowing they’re worldschooling. This one is much more common and most people can do it. You have to save up some money for a trip and take your kid out of school. It is hard too though, maybe you can’t go on a month vacation because your job only lets you have a few weeks off every year. Both types of worldschooling have its challenges.