Wander Worldschool: Helping Families Plan & Fund Slow & Long Term Travel
Here we share inspiring travel, educational and worldschooling journeys of lots of different families! Looking for actionable tips? Practical advice? You're in the right place!
We explore the stories of:
- slow and long term traveling families (including van life, gap years, summer camps abroad and more!)
- worldschool leaders and hub creators (like self-directed learning, cultural immersion, play-based and more!)
- unique ideas to travel and educate on the road (think international schools, online options, unschooling, homeschooling, language learning!)
- financial planning and money-saving travel tips (remote work, lifestyle design, financial freedom, digital nomad life and more!)
I'm Suzy and our family lives between Colorado and Spain. I support families to fund & plan long term travel!
- Email pod@suzymay.com!
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Episodes
53 episodes
52. Van Life, Boundless Life and Spanish Schools: Six Years of Travel with Sol and Camilo
🌎 Sol Velasquez and Camilo Campuzano share how their family of four traded their high-powered legal and restoration firms in Miami for a life of slow travel and international immersion. From pandemic homeschooling to living in Col...
51. Full Time Travel Doesn’t Fix Your Problems (And What It Does Instead) with Astrid & Clint from Worldschooling Q&A
🌎 Astrid Vinje and Clint Bush join the show to deconstruct their four-year journey as a full-time traveling family. From a travel conference in Canada to navigating the pandemic in Southeast Asia, they share how they transitioned fro...
50. Study Abroad in Germany in 1969 to Around the World in 1975: What World Travel Looked Like 50+ Years Ago with Grandma Marcia
🌎 My mom Marcia joins the show for the 50th episode to share the origin story of our family's travel legacy. She takes us back to a pre-digital era of exploration, from her 1969 study abroad in Germany to an around-the-world ga...
49. Roadschooling Teens: Full-Time RV with Older Kids while Remote Working
🌎 Tasha Martin shares how her family of four to traded their suburban life in Arkansas for a 37-foot travel trailer and a multi-state odyssey. She dives into the realities of full-time RVing with older teens, proving that you do...
48. Place-Based Learning and Building Portfolios: Navigating Alternative Education in Southeast Asia and South America with Harmony Alternative
🌎 Natalie and David transitioned from international school directors to building a global classroom called Harmony Alternative for worldschooling teens. They share how the project provides the community, consistency, and academic dept...
47. How to Swap Your City Expenses for a European Summer: Maddy Novich’s Guide For Parents
🌎 Maddy Novich share her secrets for summering abroad with three kids. A New York-based professor, Maddy explains how her family spends up to 9-11 weeks in Europe every year (and her database of over 400 international camps!)....
46. Forest Schools, Planned Possibilities and Basoa Summer Camp in San Sebastian, Spain with Dara and Melpo
🌎 Dara Epstein and Melpo Toundas dive into the magic of Basoa, a forest school-inspired summer day camp in San Sebastian, Spain. They share how a chance meeting sparked a mission to create a community hub for traveling families....
45. How To Rent Your Home Out While Traveling! Fund Your Adventures!
🌎 Out today, I’m celebrating the launch of my new e-book about how to turn your home into a travel asset! I share the exact roadmap our family used to ensure our home base funds our global adventures rather than acting as a financial anc...
44. Accessible Travel, Make A Wish and Japan Condos: The St. Clair Family from Learners and Makers
🌎 Anthony and Jodie St. Clair and their kids aged 14 and 11 have been traveling full-time since August 2022, after a transformative exchange in Edinburgh and a life-changing Make-A-Wish trip to Hawaii. Now split between their...
43. Raising Citizens of the World: The Turnkey Solution for Digital Nomad Families with Boundless Life Co-founder Elodie Ferchaud
🌎 Elodie Ferchaud and her family of six are currently based in Japan and she shares how she transitioned to a nomadic lifestyle to prioritize deep cultural immersion and family connection without sacrificing professional...
42. 2 Moms, Twins and a Global Gap Year: Why This Primary School Teacher Took a Worldschooling Sabbatical with Laurie Bevan-Jackson from Reality of Adventure
🌎 Laurie Bevan-Jackson and her Leeds-based family of four are currently on a year-long sabbatical exploring Southeast Asia, Nepal and Japan. A decade of financial planning and a commitment to family attachment helped them take a sabba...
41. Summer Travel Planning: Starter Guide to Budget, Use Points and Worldschool in 2026!
🌎 In this short and sweet end of the month episode, I share our recent adventures, a sneak peek at my upcoming e-book and reveal the historic city behind this month’s opening trivia.👍 We cover a recap of recent guest highlig...
40. Business Class for $35: Standby Travel, Online Schooling and Adapting to Diverse Kid Needs with Chris and Robin
🌎 Chris and Robin are a Denver-based family of five currently blending airline industry perks with a flexible, intentional approach to global education. After three years of RV living, they transitioned back to a home base in Colorado, u...
39. How an 18 Month Road Trip Fosters Family Resilience (Lessons from the Pan-American Highway) with Justin Vorel
🌎 Justin Vorel and his family of five is currently navigating an ambitious 18-month family road trip from the US to South America in a Honda Pilot. After a decade spent building a rug manufacturing business in Morocco, Justin and his wif...
38. Outdoor Naps in Norway and Holistic Nature Retreats: How Monica Built WanderWild Family Retreats
🎉 All about slow living, global careers and finding wellness in the wild! Monica Virga Alborno discusses her journey from global engineering to building a life in the mountains and fjords of Norway.🌎 Monica gives us a loo...
37. How to Raise Multilingual Kids: A Worldschooler’s Guide to Language Learning
🎉 All about language learning! I share about Mark and my language backgrounds and what has worked for raising trilingual kids. 🌎 After highlighting the best of this months episodes and our Listener Location trivia, t...
36. Stop Traveling Like a Tourist: Adding Purpose and Intentional Trip Planning While Keeping a Home Base with Cassidy
🎉 Cassidy Crowell tunes in from Colorado to inspire you to travel with purpose while maintaining a home base. Their family of 5 spends 3-4 months a year exploring new areas for 4-6 weeks, the 'sweet spot' for their family. This ba...
35. How Co-Living Cohorts Combine Worldschooling and Community with Cohli
🎉 Lauren and Tiago join us from Costa Rica as they explore their remarkable transition from a whirlwind international romance to a life of perpetual travel with two young children. Tiago traces his origin story to rural Africa w...
34. Sourdough Lifestyle: Slow Travel, Second-Tier Cities, and Saffron Bread with Brett and Christina
🎉 Christina Cann and Brett Wiewiora join us from Italy as they share their family’s journey from selling their bakery business in Florida to worldschooling with their two daughters ages 12 and 8 and their sourdough starter, Gandalf!🌎 The...
33. Moving to Taiwan: Fitness Franchising and the Gold Card Visa with Maxwell Lee
🎉 Maxwell Lee joins up from Taipei, Taiwan to share his family’s journey from Florida to Taipei, where he successfully overcame his fears of moving abroad. He shares the worldschooling journey they took before moving to Taipei and how th...
Bonus! 2025 Reflections and Best Of with Mark!
🎉 In this special bonus episode, I invite my husband Mark to reflect on our favorite parts and best of´s of 2025 and we share a bit about our 2026 plans!🌎 What was our most memorable view to wake up to? Favorite meal? Most difficu...
32. Wander Roundup: Top Holiday Memories from the Worldschooling Community!
🎉 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and your worldschooling family!🌎 Our special episode today brings Listener Location trivia, our family adventures this month and my favorite parts of this month’s ep...
31. Worldschooling with Courtney Orgias: Full-time Travel, Language Learning and Creating Community
🎉 Courtney Orgis, mama of the O.Family.Adventures family, details her family’s 3+ year full time travel journey while working remotely and raising kids who are now 3 and 6!🌎 She details how they sustain themselves financially<...
30. Inside Out Money: Balancing Budgets + Teens on Multi-Week Family Travels with Maggie Tucker
🎉 Maggie Tucker, an early retiree and co-host of the Inside Out Money podcast, shares her blended family's approach to traveling with three teenage daughters!🌎 A major theme is balancing the privilege of family travel ...
29. 2+ Year Worldschooling & Finding Cultural Immersion in Peru and Mexico with Stephanie Tolk
🎉 Meet Stephanie Tolk, founder of Deliberate Detour hubs, who discusses her family’s two-and-a-half-year worldschooling journey, how they navigated learning on the go and re-entry to public school.🌎 She shares how th...
