Wander Worldschool: Helping Families Plan & Fund Slow & Long Term Travel

Suzy May | Worldschool & Family Travel Money Coach
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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! - Follow and support the show at https://beacons.ai/suzymaywander

  1. 40. Business Class for $35: Standby Travel, Online Schooling and Adapting to Diverse Kid Needs with Chris and Robin

    6D AGO

    40. Business Class for $35: Standby Travel, Online Schooling and Adapting to Diverse Kid Needs with Chris and Robin

    Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🌎 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, using Chris’s career in the airlines to unlock international adventures including 6 weeks to Australia and New Zealand. 👍 We cover the logistics of flying standby as a large family and navigating online public school. Chris and Robin share how they accommodate neurodivergent learning needs and how they use financial transparency to teach their kids the costs of adventure. ✨ 5 Questions Answered: How can families fly business class for just $35? Chris explains the standby space available system for airline employees and how almost any professional (from IT programmers to ramp agents) can access airline travel benefits that make international family travel incredibly affordable.What is the budget for a traveling family of five? The family breaks down their $5,000 monthly RV budget and how they aim for a similar $5,000–$6,000 range for international travel.How do you navigate education with neurodivergent learners? Their family transitioned from homeschooling to a hybrid online public school model that provides specialized support for dyslexia and autism while allowing for flexible live classes.How do you handle sensory and food challenges abroad? Robin shares her pro-tips for traveling with a child with food selectivity!What is the secret to staying resilient when travel plans fail? Robin’s book, Yucky Weather, and her pilot’s perspective—knowing the sun is always shining above the clouds—helps their family stay calm when they are forced to change course.CONNECT WITH CHRIS AND ROBIN: BGBarnstormer.comYucky Weather bookFB/Instagram: @BGBarnstormerPreply connects you directly with tutors from around the world at all times + prices! Start speaking TODAY in your target language! Book a trial lesson at Preply now! Join us for the virtual worldschoolers meetup on March 19th at 7 am (PT), 8 am (MT), 10 am (ET), 3 pm (CET), and 10 pm in SEA! Add to your calendar: https://calendarlink.com/event/40sB7 Support the show CONNECT WITH SUZY: My family lives in Spain, Colorado and soon Japan. 🌞 I help families financially plan for slow + long term travel! Need help making a travel budget? Saving for a gap year? How to rent your home out? Book a FREE 30 MIN DISCOVERY CALL! No pressure! 🚀 The info provided is for general info purposes only. It is not intended as financial, investment, legal, or tax advice. ❤️ Follow + review! 📧 pod@suzymay.com 📲 All the links!

    51 min
  2. 39. How an 18 Month Road Trip Fosters Family Resilience (Lessons from the Pan-American Highway) with Justin Vorel

    FEB 12

    39. How an 18 Month Road Trip Fosters Family Resilience (Lessons from the Pan-American Highway) with Justin Vorel

    Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🌎 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 wife transitioned to a remote-work lifestyle to provide their three young children with a hands-on global education.  👍 We cover travel budgets, logistics of traveling in a car to the children's approach to learning along the way. Justin highlights the resilience required to travel faster (moving locations nearly every week), while balancing business management, exploring cities and nature and language immersion. ✨ 5 Questions Answered: What is the budget for a 18 month Pan American road trip? Justin breaks down their initial daily budget of $135 and explains why they are increasing it to $155 for 2026.How does a family of five manage education on the road? The episode explores their worldschooling mix of Khan Academy, IXL, and heavy independent reading, alongside a focus on life skills like financial literacy and agriculture.What is the logistics and cost of crossing the Darien Gap? Justin explains the necessity of shipping their vehicle from Panama to Colombia, noting that while it is expensive and time-consuming, it is safer than buying a new car in South America.How to fund the adventure? Justin shares the evolution of his Moroccan rug business, moving from an art gallery concept to a manufacturing operation with 20 employees that he now manages remotely with 10-15 hours of work per week.How to maintain safety and community while moving fast? Awareness is important to navigating geopolitical shifts, as well as the importance of seeking out local worldschooling hubs and public parks to find community.CONNECT WITH JUSTIN VOREL: Instagram (@nomadbluetravel) Illuminate Collective Rugs (www.illuminatecollectiverugs.com) Preply connects you directly with tutors from around the world at all times + prices! Start speaking TODAY in your target language! Book a trial lesson at Preply now! Join us for the virtual worldschoolers meetup on March 19th at 7 am (PT), 8 am (MT), 10 am (ET), 3 pm (CET), and 10 pm in SEA! Add to your calendar: https://calendarlink.com/event/40sB7 Support the show CONNECT WITH SUZY: My family lives in Spain, Colorado and soon Japan. 🌞 I help families financially plan for slow + long term travel! Need help making a travel budget? Saving for a gap year? How to rent your home out? Book a FREE 30 MIN DISCOVERY CALL! No pressure! 🚀 The info provided is for general info purposes only. It is not intended as financial, investment, legal, or tax advice. ❤️ Follow + review! 📧 pod@suzymay.com 📲 All the links!

    38 min
  3. 38. Outdoor Naps in Norway and Holistic Nature Retreats: How Monica Built WanderWild Family Retreats

    FEB 5

    38. Outdoor Naps in Norway and Holistic Nature Retreats: How Monica Built WanderWild Family Retreats

    Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 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 look at the Scandinavian Barnehage system and how a nature-first approach to education can build incredible resilience in our children. 👍 Tune in to hear about the realities of life in Norway, the importance of decadent spaces for parents, and how you can incorporate Wander Wild principles into your own family travels. ✨ WHY YOU SHOULD LISTEN: Learn why Norwegian kids nap outside in sub-zero temperatures and how foraging excursions are part of their daily curriculum.Hear Monica’s inspiring story of leaving a Fortune 500 career to follow her intuition and launch a wellness-focused travel business.Discover why elevated, intentional spaces are essential for parents to combat the mental load of modern motherhood and fatherhood.Get an honest look at the logistical and emotional challenges of moving abroad, from high tax systems to the isolation of being an immigrant during a pandemic. Get the details on the 2026 retreat schedule and why animal-integrated experiences, like goat therapy, are transformative for families.AND MORE! LISTEN NOW!Resources: Upcoming Wander Wild Family Retreats at wanderwildfamilyretreats.comThe WandHERwild PodcastInstagram: @wanderherwild and @wanderwildfamilyretreatsPreply connects you directly with tutors from around the world at all times + prices! Start speaking TODAY in your target language! Book a trial lesson at Preply now! Join us for the virtual worldschoolers meetup on March 19th at 7 am (PT), 8 am (MT), 10 am (ET), 3 pm (CET), and 10 pm in SEA! Add to your calendar: https://calendarlink.com/event/40sB7 Support the show CONNECT WITH SUZY: My family lives in Spain, Colorado and soon Japan. 🌞 I help families financially plan for slow + long term travel! Need help making a travel budget? Saving for a gap year? How to rent your home out? Book a FREE 30 MIN DISCOVERY CALL! No pressure! 🚀 The info provided is for general info purposes only. It is not intended as financial, investment, legal, or tax advice. ❤️ Follow + review! 📧 pod@suzymay.com 📲 All the links!

    42 min
  4. 37. How to Raise Multilingual Kids: A Worldschooler’s Guide to Language Learning

    JAN 29

    37. How to Raise Multilingual Kids: A Worldschooler’s Guide to Language Learning

    Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 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, the deep dive includes a comprehensive guide for family language learning.  👍 Tune in to the reasons why you should still learn another language even if English is a major world language, five considerations for multilingual families and tons of resources! ✨ WHY LISTEN: Hear our candid ‘lesson learned’ about a medical emergency before a flightGet a curated list of the best tools for language learning including Preply, tailored for kids and adults.Discover how monolingual parents can effectively raise multilingual kids.Understand the four pillars of language learning (future-proofing your kid’s careers?!)Enjoy fascinating facts about our Listener Location!Resources:  Tutors: Preply (use this link!), italki, Verbling, Lingoda, Outschool (use this link!) Apps: Babbel (use this link!), Lingopie, Dreaming Spanish 1-5+: Little Pim, Studycat, Minis, Simple Espanol, Eat Spanish, Maus 5-10+:  Seis Minutos, FabuLingua, Culture Kids, Ninos& Preply connects you directly with tutors from around the world at all times + prices! Start speaking TODAY in your target language! Book a trial lesson at Preply now! Join us for the virtual worldschoolers meetup on March 19th at 7 am (PT), 8 am (MT), 10 am (ET), 3 pm (CET), and 10 pm in SEA! Add to your calendar: https://calendarlink.com/event/40sB7 Support the show CONNECT WITH SUZY: My family lives in Spain, Colorado and soon Japan. 🌞 I help families financially plan for slow + long term travel! Need help making a travel budget? Saving for a gap year? How to rent your home out? Book a FREE 30 MIN DISCOVERY CALL! No pressure! 🚀 The info provided is for general info purposes only. It is not intended as financial, investment, legal, or tax advice. ❤️ Follow + review! 📧 pod@suzymay.com 📲 All the links!

    33 min
  5. 36. Stop Traveling Like a Tourist: Adding Purpose and Intentional Trip Planning While Keeping a Home Base with Cassidy

    JAN 22

    36. Stop Traveling Like a Tourist: Adding Purpose and Intentional Trip Planning While Keeping a Home Base with Cassidy

    Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 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 balanced approach allows for slow travel and deep immersion without the potential for burn out from full time travel. 🌎 They fund life and travel with rental properties and they prioritize worldschooling hubs in Peru, Dominican Republic and Montenegro, while also finding ways to connect educational offerings between locations. 👍 Cassidy helps parents navigate the worldschooling landscape with the Worldschool Hub Map featuring over 200 locations and sharing their travels online, inspiring others to live unconventionally.  ✨ ACTIONABLE TIPS: Take test trips, such as a 3 week experimental trip, to see what speed and length of travel works best for your family. Define a family mission, quest or goal for a trip to give purpose to avoid feeling listless on the road.Prioritize support, such as strong customer service, when using travel booking portals.Hybrid schoooling and understanding enrollment policies in your school district allow families to navigate longer trips away.AND MORE! LISTEN NOW!Resources: Find Cassidy on Instagram (@livingunconventionally) and Living Unconventionally.com and YouTube (@LivingUnconventionally). Worldschooling Hub Map and more! Preply connects you directly with tutors from around the world at all times + prices! Start speaking TODAY in your target language! Book a trial lesson at Preply now! Join us for the virtual worldschoolers meetup on March 19th at 7 am (PT), 8 am (MT), 10 am (ET), 3 pm (CET), and 10 pm in SEA! Add to your calendar: https://calendarlink.com/event/40sB7 Support the show CONNECT WITH SUZY: My family lives in Spain, Colorado and soon Japan. 🌞 I help families financially plan for slow + long term travel! Need help making a travel budget? Saving for a gap year? How to rent your home out? Book a FREE 30 MIN DISCOVERY CALL! No pressure! 🚀 The info provided is for general info purposes only. It is not intended as financial, investment, legal, or tax advice. ❤️ Follow + review! 📧 pod@suzymay.com 📲 All the links!

    37 min
  6. 35. How Co-Living Cohorts Combine Worldschooling and Community with Cohli

    JAN 15

    35. How Co-Living Cohorts Combine Worldschooling and Community with Cohli

    Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 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 while Lauren had a traditional US upbringing. 🌎 They discuss how the pandemic lead to three different wedding ceremonies and how they leaned on community in Portugal and Spain during their early parenting days and the isolation they felt when they ventured on their own. 👍 This community-driven co-living experience of Cohli is designed to create 1-3 months retreats for families to live, eat, learn and share together, all combined with local cultural immersion and authenticity.  ✨ ACTIONABLE TIPS: Perpetual travelers will want to be aware of what constitutes tax residency in a new country, often by staying less than 182 days per year.Even with slow travel, there is benefits of purging items on moving days to increase mobility.Unconventional learning opportunities abound (listen in to how they 'paid' for their children's attendance at a rural public school in Colombia.Co-living cohorts and long-term hubs help share the mental load of traveling families and avoids travel burnout. AND MORE! LISTEN NOW!Resources: Join Lauren, Tiago and other families at an upcoming Cohli co-living retreat at https://cohli.com!  Community at https://community.cohli.com/ and Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/heycohli/! Sacred Valley, Peru (Apr-Jun 26) Sumapaz, Colombia (Jun-Aug 2026)  Costa Vicentina, Portugal (July 2026) Preply connects you directly with tutors from around the world at all times + prices! Start speaking TODAY in your target language! Book a trial lesson at Preply now! Join us for the virtual worldschoolers meetup on March 19th at 7 am (PT), 8 am (MT), 10 am (ET), 3 pm (CET), and 10 pm in SEA! Add to your calendar: https://calendarlink.com/event/40sB7 Support the show CONNECT WITH SUZY: My family lives in Spain, Colorado and soon Japan. 🌞 I help families financially plan for slow + long term travel! Need help making a travel budget? Saving for a gap year? How to rent your home out? Book a FREE 30 MIN DISCOVERY CALL! No pressure! 🚀 The info provided is for general info purposes only. It is not intended as financial, investment, legal, or tax advice. ❤️ Follow + review! 📧 pod@suzymay.com 📲 All the links!

    44 min
  7. 34. Sourdough Lifestyle: Slow Travel, Second-Tier Cities, and Saffron Bread with Brett and Christina

    JAN 8

    34. Sourdough Lifestyle: Slow Travel, Second-Tier Cities, and Saffron Bread with Brett and Christina

    Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 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! 🌎 They incorporate local flavors into their baking and have adapted to kitchens without ovens to bake. They prioritize second-tier cities to reduce costs and immerse themselves in local cultures while blending worldschooling for their daughters. 👍 By blending their professional passion for baking with global exploration, they demonstrate how families can trade traditional routines for a flavor-filled life on the road.  ✨ ACTIONABLE TIPS: Taking test trips with your kids while they’re younger can get them ready to take on longer worldschooling later on!Spend less time in major cities and more time in smaller, lesser-known cities like Lille, France instead of Paris, in order to find walkability and affordability. Packing even a few comforts, like earplugs, blankets and a Dutch oven, can make long term travel more sustainable!You can bring your hobbies with you! Learn how they travel with their sourdough starter!AND MORE! LISTEN NOW!Resources: Take a sourdough class from Brett and Christina at www. sourdoughlifestyle.com! Follow on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/sourdoughlifestyle/) and Substack (https://sourdoughlifestyle.substack.com/) 01:03 – Travel Origins and Meeting in College 05:00 – Trading the Bakery for the World 12:00 – The Reality of Worldschooling 17:17 – Sourdough on the Road 24:43 – The Finances of Slow Travel 28:26 – Challenges: From Rural Barns to Mooing Cows 35:32 – Lightning Round & Wrap Up Preply connects you directly with tutors from around the world at all times + prices! Start speaking TODAY in your target language! Book a trial lesson at Preply now! Join us for the virtual worldschoolers meetup on March 19th at 7 am (PT), 8 am (MT), 10 am (ET), 3 pm (CET), and 10 pm in SEA! Add to your calendar: https://calendarlink.com/event/40sB7 Support the show CONNECT WITH SUZY: My family lives in Spain, Colorado and soon Japan. 🌞 I help families financially plan for slow + long term travel! Need help making a travel budget? Saving for a gap year? How to rent your home out? Book a FREE 30 MIN DISCOVERY CALL! No pressure! 🚀 The info provided is for general info purposes only. It is not intended as financial, investment, legal, or tax advice. ❤️ Follow + review! 📧 pod@suzymay.com 📲 All the links!

    45 min
  8. 33. Moving to Taiwan: Fitness Franchising and the Gold Card Visa with Maxwell Lee

    JAN 2

    33. Moving to Taiwan: Fitness Franchising and the Gold Card Visa with Maxwell Lee

    Send us a text! Q's? Text now! 🎉 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 the kids have adapted to new languages and school in Taiwan. 🌎 Maxwell moved on the Gold Card visa to Taiwan due to his musical background which he shares more about in the episode (including the opening and closing songs which are original songs by Maxwell!)  👍 He shares their business endeavors and what lead them to expand on the Anytime Fitness franchise brand in Taiwan and Malaysia.  ✨ ACTIONABLE TIPS: If you know you’re moving somewhere, use time in between to take slow and long term travels to family, friends and new places before you move.If there is a brand you love in your home country and you are living somewhere new to you, the opportunity to franchise that brand could be an option to starting a business!Early exposure to language is a great basis but sometimes kids need extra help to learn languages even before they arrive in a new country.There is always time to go back to your favorite hobbies!AND MORE! LISTEN NOW!Resources: Maxwell Lee website, Instagram and Facebook https://projectmaximusmusic.com/ Original songs by Maxwell Lee! Opening song: Because of You Closing song: Someday You'll See Preply connects you directly with tutors from around the world at all times + prices! Start speaking TODAY in your target language! Book a trial lesson at Preply now! Join us for the virtual worldschoolers meetup on March 19th at 7 am (PT), 8 am (MT), 10 am (ET), 3 pm (CET), and 10 pm in SEA! Add to your calendar: https://calendarlink.com/event/40sB7 Support the show CONNECT WITH SUZY: My family lives in Spain, Colorado and soon Japan. 🌞 I help families financially plan for slow + long term travel! Need help making a travel budget? Saving for a gap year? How to rent your home out? Book a FREE 30 MIN DISCOVERY CALL! No pressure! 🚀 The info provided is for general info purposes only. It is not intended as financial, investment, legal, or tax advice. ❤️ Follow + review! 📧 pod@suzymay.com 📲 All the links!

    41 min
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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! - Follow and support the show at https://beacons.ai/suzymaywander

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