So what if the parents are the type to lie on a beach all day when they go on holiday. Is this still travel in your opinion? It’s certainly not an active lifestyle. I’m just wondering how you define travel? Holiday, vacation, or more?

There is a huge difference Stephanie, between a 1 year gap year or RTW and a nomadic lifestyle. I’ve done both, they are not in any way the same thing. One feels like an extended holiday, prepaid, no work, the other is just ” life” but in different places. You are forced to slow down and live in a far more boring way because sometimes you just have to get stuff done, you have to spend days getting new passports, or go to xyz place ( Bangkok) to buy something like a new laptop, or spend days working to earn the cash to keep your lifestyle possible, or pop back home to visit somebody or check on your property, They’re very different things. A 1 year holiday is, for most people, just a holiday. My kids have never had any interest in routine, people tell you hey like routine, and I guess some might, mine don’t. They like doing what they feel like doing.

I noticed that this was over 2 years ago — do you feel that your concerns were valid or do you feel that your kids fared just fine?

I have a 4, 9,9 and 13 year old who we will be taking out of traditional life and throwing into a nomadic lifestyle late this summer. Im not concerned about the big kids. But im a tad worried about how the little one will do in not having his “home” — not having the comforts that come with that and the familiarness and his pop pop (grandfather) and the park he is used to and you know — just all the norms that little ones really appreciate.

Hi Tara! Are you currently on the road traveling? Im interested in knowing how long you have been gone from home if so and your kids perspective.

Sometimes we make decisions for our kids that they wouldn’t choose themselves because we know it will be best for them in the long run. Do you feel that despite them missing their friends that the benefits traveling is superior to the benefits of settling down in one place?