Whether you landed here from a search, a recommendation, or just followed your curiosity, welcome.
Parenting and Passports is a website for parents who travel full-time (or long-term), worldschool their children, or are seriously considering a location-independent life.
Not holiday travel.
Not two weeks away.
The kind of travel that reshapes how your family lives.
Here is a quick overview of the site and where to go depending on what you are looking for.
Where it all began
Learn more about why this site exists and who created it by clicking the links.
Passports: Destination guides and travel planning
This is the biggest section of the site, built on years of slow travel across multiple continents and growing with every family that joins the conversation. If you’re looking for things to do and want to know how to spend weeks or months in a foreign country with your kids, this is where to start.
Browse destination guides and family travel planning
Parenting: The reality of raising children on the road
This section covers the practical and philosophical side of full-time family travel. With two key subcategories:
Learning covers worldschooling, unschooling, and how long-term traveling families keep their children curious, connected, and thriving without a conventional school environment.
Living covers the harder questions most travel sites skip over: how families fund this life, what work they do, where they live, and how they manage the various logistics and legal realities of location independence.
Resources: Tools and recommendations
A curated collection of the various products, services, and digital tools that can support a family’s location-independent life, covering accommodation, transport, education, health, and the practical side of working from anywhere.
Your biggest challenge?
If you are not sure where to begin, or if there is a specific question or obstacle holding you back, this is the place to tell us.
Tell us your biggest challenge
This is not just one family’s story
Parenting and Passports is not about a single family’s story. It is one part of a much wider movement of parents who have chosen to travel full-time or long-term, worldschool their children, and choose paths that are uniquely different from the ones they were expected to follow.
Those families come from all over the world. Their routes, their reasons, and their versions of this life are all different. And the more of them who share what they know, the more useful this website becomes for every family that follows their own unique paths.
If you have been there, done it, and have something real to share, you are welcome here.
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