EER019: World Travel Family & Simple Life Romania

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Alyson Long is part of a truly World Travel Family. In June 2013, she and her two young sons left her adoptive home of Port Douglas, Australia with one-way tickets to Malaysia. Her husband caught up with them soon after, and since then the family has been through Southeast Asia, India and Sri Lanka, the Americas and Europe, using London as a place to sort out various work and family obligations.

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World Travel Family & Simple Life Romania

Now building a house in Romania, Alyson and company will soon have a base, but that doesn’t mean they’re staying still. In this Epic Education Interview, Alyson talks about homeschooling, travel gear, their views on electronics and travel and more. She blogs at World Travel Family.

About

• Names: Alyson Long, her husband and their two boys 11 and 8 years old.
• Hold passports from: UK & Australia
• A few places they’ve been: Southeast Asia, India, North America & Central America. Just bought a house in Romania.

Find Them On: World Travel Family  |  Facebook  | Twitter  | Instagram  | Pinterest  | Youtube  |  Simple Life Romania

EPIC RULES & ROUTINES

• No electronics outside of the house: don’t use phones or other smart devices once they step outside.
• Walk a lot with the kids

EPIC ECONOMICS

• Started trip with $30,000 and used that the first year
• Renting house in Australia
• Working on building income through World Travel Family
• Husband is a chef, who now picks up work in London, saves the money “and off we go again.”

EPIC ESSENTIALS

• 3 Acer Laptops (their old ones — didn’t buy new ones before traveling)
• Lowe Alpine Travel Trekker Backpack
• Olympus PEN & Lenses

EPIC INSIGHT

• Oldest son homeschooled since he was around seven.
• Youngest son has been homeschooled from the start.
• They have practiced unschooling, but have now integrated more bookwork.

EPIC RESOURCES

Education:

• Reading Eggs
• Study Ladder
• Miamiopia
• Textbooks by Carol Vorderman: English, Maths, Science, Spelling & Grammar

Travel:

• Agoda
• Skyscanner

EPIC ADVICE

• Get on with it: if you want to go, then make it happen
• Put the kids first

EPIC DESTINATIONS

• Sri Lanka
• Koh Phangan, Thailand
• London, UK
• Romania

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