Broadening global understanding while bridging the people and cultures of the world.

A WorldTowner is someone who is living and changing the world through travel – one hometown at a time.

Once upon a time…we were a family who said to heck with “normal," the American Dream, the rat race, or whatever you want to call it. We called bullshit. Our life was overscheduled, overextended and frankly going by on fast-forward with limited truly present moments. We had careers we loved in Boston, an amazing school and community, a house and everything we aspired to have as Americans. But, it was just not enough. What we were lacking were deeper connections as a family and with the world-and the opportunity to create all the memories that go along with living life on our terms. One rainy day in October 2014, we boarded an airplane for a one-year adventure in Costa Rica. That was almost six years ago, and we are still at it.

We realized we only had nine summers out of 18 left with our eldest, and we were not living our biggest dream.

We can sit here today, almost six years later and tell you that jumping in was the best decision we have ever made. Frankly, it is right up there with breastfeeding and no tv-but that is a conversation for another time. The highs have been incredibly high and the lows debilitatingly low, but somewhere along the way (possibly in Nicaragua), we found us, WorldTowning the lifestyle. Changing the world, one hometown at a time.

When we set out on this journey, we had a vague roadmap of what we wanted the next decade to look like, but we were not quite sure how it would all play out. There were a lot of unknowns. Since then, we have lived for a year at a time in Costa Rica, Ecuador and the south of France. Then the kids wanted to take it to the next level. As a result, we bought a 21.5-foot RV and traveled to every country in Europe, plus Morocco and Turkey for 2.5 years. And, if all that was not enough, we decided to walk the Camino de Santiago for 44-days through northern Spain, which probably saved us during a very trying time. Currently, we are spending one month at a time in select Asian countries. There have been grand discoveries along the way, trauma has surfaced, our health has been challenged and so much more. But guess what? These things can happen anywhere. We are glad that when all seems at a loss, or when we feel like king/queen of the world we are experiencing life in front of an ever-changing backdrop learning about our family and about the true goodness of people all over the world.

When you remove yourself from all barriers and routines, the one thing you realize most is how much you don't know and how much more there is to learn.

The million-dollar question. Each time we accomplish a grand adventure it seems a new one gets added to the list and the ante has been upped. In no particular order, we want to: learn to sail and circumnavigate the world, explore the Middle East, Africa and more of South America, find our way to Antarctica, take another big hike, remodel a chateau in France and much more.

From a business standpoint our goal is to become the #1 family-run group travel company, specializing in deeper connections to off-the-beaten path experiences and intense engagement with locals. We have a couple other items up our sleeves, but you will have to wait for them to unfold.

We are just a (somewhat) normal family who decided to create a new “normal” before it was too late. You get one life to live, experience part of it with us.

A day that will go down in our family history. To commemorate it, we made it an official family holiday: Dream Day. To say our adjustment to the travel life was hard would be a gross understatement. It plain sucked, but the happy ending is that we survived and thrived. Each October 6th, we buy ice cream and as many crazy toppings as we can find wherever we are in the world. We create our “dream” sundae. It can be crazy, unrealistic, not "normal," whatever meets the individual's fancy. Then, we sit around and discuss our big, outlandish dreams for the next year and long term. We celebrate how far we have come and that, if we can do THIS, we can do anything. We encourage the kids to dream big and strive for what makes them happy, regardless of what society wants from them. We never want to forget what brought us to where we are today. It was a Rocky Road with sticky, melted marshmallows and topped with some very sour patch (kids). There were some rainbow sprinkles along the way, and we swear we saw a unicorn one day. You get the idea. We are proof it can be done. You don’t have to be in your 20s, rich or a brain surgeon. It just takes grit, and an “I will never give up” attitude. Steal this holiday, embrace it and celebrate big time. Share your sundae pics, and tag us on social media.

Celebrate the small and not so small accomplishments, but give yourself a reason to celebrate.