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Welcome to my blog about traveling the world with our two young girls!

I share the ups and downs, good and bad – all right here.

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travel with us

Welcome to my blog about traveling the world with our two young girls!

I share the ups and downs, good and bad – all right here.

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Meltdowns

ugly cries

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We are the crazy family that sold everything and headed off on a once-in-a-lifetime travel adventure.
This blog is about what it’s like living as a young family on the road. The real deal. Some travel blogs make everything look and sound fantastic, but I’m more interested in the reality of what we’re doing. It’s amazing, awesome, exciting, and enriching… it’s also exhausting, difficult, stressful, and full of self-doubt at times. I try to capture it all.

I explore what it’s like to parent and raise young children through this experience. I document our attempts to travel in a minimalist way through packing, budgeting, and getting creative. We eat a plant-based diet, so I also share how we “keep it vegan” on the road and my favourite travel-friendly recipes and tricks.

Follow me on Instagram and Facebook for quick updates and fun photos as we travel around, as well as all my latest blog posts.

Or, if you have in-depth questions or want to chat, you can email me at havekidswillwander@gmail.com

Thanks to Megan Muir from Muir Image Photography (www.muirimagephoto.com) for the great family photo!

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Packing Light with Kids: a Minimalist Travel Experiment

by | July 18, 2018 | MINIMALIST TRAVEL, PACKING, Thailand | 4 Comments

    33 days, 2 adults, 2 kids, and 1 type of weather. One 40 litre backpack, one 16 litre backpack, and one stroller. “Wow! How did you do that?!” is the refrain we’ve heard a lot when we describe how we approached packing light with kids for our inaugural...
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First Three Weeks on Isla Mujeres

by | August 22, 2018 | Isla Mujeres, Sunday Night Dinners | 0 Comments

Three family updates that encompass our first three weeks on the island of Isla Mujeres, Mexico. From the photo above, you might think that getting vanilla jelly rolls was the most exciting thing we did! April 19 After surviving an ice storm in April and the return of...
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First Week in San Pedro, Belize

by | August 11, 2018 | San Pedro, Sunday Night Dinners | 2 Comments

The first week of our full-time traveling lifestyle took us to the island of Ambergris Caye and the town of San Pedro, in Belize. It brought a lot of highs and lows, including starting a new school, loving our golf cart, discovering the seaweed, and meeting new...
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Vegan Life

by | June 19, 2018 | VEGAN LIFE | 0 Comments

  Our family loves what our vegan eating does for our health, the animals, and the planet. But it is a huge extra challenge, trying to "keep it vegan" when you're living on the road! Language barriers, lack of options, and not knowing the local food scene are all...
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Minimalist Travel

by | June 15, 2018 | MINIMALIST TRAVEL | 0 Comments

    Minimalist travel has transformed so many aspects of our life. Life is simpler, cheaper, less stressful, and more fulfilling - and my kids say "I'm bored" far less often despite having FAR fewer toys! Funny how their creativity serves them far better...
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Meal Planning + Slow Traveling: Top 10 Ways to Stick to your Food Budget

by | July 13, 2018 | BUDGETING, EATING VEGAN WHILE TRAVELING, MEAL PLANNING | 0 Comments

Budget meal planning while traveling: it's a constant priority for us to find ways to eat healthy and cheaply while we slow travel, without wasting too much, and also keeping it plant-based.  It’s probably no surprise to those who know me that I am constantly meal...
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Flowing in Vietnam – but not the yoga kind!

by | September 18, 2018 | TRAVELING WITH KIDS, Vietnam | 1 Comment

One of the biggest adjustments to living in Vietnam for a few months has been getting around. We have learned from experience that we don’t thrive nearly as well in places where we don’t have our own transportation. We have stayed in places where we had to rely on...
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The Absolute Worst Part of My Life Right Now

by | July 13, 2018 | PARENTING, TRAVELING WITH KIDS, Uncategorised | 0 Comments

    WARNING: graphic post ahead. If you are or recently were the parent of a toddler, you will likely find it somewhat familiar. Otherwise, I would finish eating before reading. There are lots of ways that this traveling life isn’t easy or perfect (I will...
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Sickness

by | August 7, 2018 | Isla Mujeres, TRAVELING WITH KIDS | 0 Comments

Sickness. So much sickness. 18 separate things in 7 weeks for 4 people. Plus a teething toddler. Life on this paradise island wasn't exactly paradise for us! I’ve barely written anything since arriving on Isla Mujeres almost two months ago. There are many things that...
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The Wisdom of Five Year Olds: How a Bad Day Turned Into a Lesson on Generosity

by | June 19, 2018 | PARENTING, San Pedro, TRAVELING WITH KIDS | 2 Comments

    This was one of those days that most blogs don’t talk about. This was one of those days that make you question your decision to uproot your life and travel the world. This was one of the Bad Days. One of the days that starts with the toddler waking at...
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Goodbye Isla, Hello Houston

by | October 19, 2018 | Isla Mujeres, Sunday Night Dinners, TRAVELING WITH KIDS, Uncategorised | 0 Comments

Saying goodbye to Isla Mujeres was harder than expected, but we are excited to be on our journey to Vietnam and back to South East Asia, where this whole crazy adventure really began! So, we left Isla Mujeres - and it was such a whirlwind, I’ve barely processed it. We...
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Traveling with Kids

by | June 19, 2018 | TRAVELING WITH KIDS | 0 Comments

    A lot of people questioned the wisdom of our decision to travel with our kids when they were this young. We questioned it ourselves! But there is so much to be gained by exposing kids to new cultures and experiences. Since we have young, active kids who...
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