Comments on: Are You Ready to Declare Your Independence?

By: Chishikoff

Chishikoff — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:04:32 +0000

Good article, thanks. Good Design

By: bluegreen Kirk

bluegreen Kirk — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:06:41 +0000

Nice post both my younger brother and I celebrate the 4th of July as birthdays!

By: Coolmon's Blog

Coolmon's Blog — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:59:30 +0000

Good article, enjoyed reading it.

By: Regine

Regine — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:45:20 +0000

Hi Marc! I come from the Redpath website and followed the web trail of traveling families.
I love what you wrote about independence day, it is clear, strong and so true!
thank you.

By: Nadine Hudson

Nadine Hudson — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:43:12 +0000

Dear family of four suitcases. I found your blog link on some other site and felt very inspired with your above words. I have written a similar blog post on our blog about the price we travellers pay and about choices we all have to make (I haven’t put it on the blog yet, as I have got to translate it into English first…, it will be on there soon). It’s a very interesting topic. We have travelled for over two years with our boys mostly by public transport through the Middle East and Asia and have lived in rural China for the last two years. We are planning another long trip through Europe, Africa, the Middle East (?) for next year. We have given up a lot (as you say, too much safety can be dangerous for the kids, I love that add on your blog), but we have never regretted it at all. On our website we publish a lot of stories about our very simple lives in rural China and other stories of travelling as a family. If you like, check it out on http://www.hudsonfamily.ch/en (or without the “en” for the German version). Maybe one day we’ll meet on the road.

By: Mike & Luci

Mike & Luci — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:15:03 +0000

Love the post! We went on a fam vacation to DC. I was so impressed with how much the kids knew and appreciated the monuments and individuals that started the USA. Thanks for the post.

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:34:47 +0000

Thanks Christine! I’ve been checking out your blog – you guys have some great stories, too! Enjoy the rest of your trip!

By: christine

christine — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:46:54 +0000

I love what you said about quit worrying and start living….so true indeed….we are still on our 13 month adventure and have packed so much into 11 months that some times looking back it doesn’t even seem real……we will be settling soon and I know, like adam, we will be scheming about how to get back on the road permanently…..i admire you for taking an entire family on such a long trip–wow!! we met a very cool family in ho an, vietnam who have web-based businesses and thought, if they could do it at home, they could do it in vietnam and have really made quite a lovely life for themselves and their kids….really liked reading your stories.

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:36:55 +0000

Adam, we’re in exactly the same place! Our trip completely changed our outlook on all those things, too, and we are sooo ready to take off again and see more of the world. Unfortunately, due to a certain lack of foresight on my part when we started this adventure, the road to our second world tour is going to be longer and harder than I’d like it to be.

But you’re right, having done it before, we know can do it again – and we will! Now that we’ve both expressed that INTENTION, it’s become inevitable, you know?

Enjoy the ride!

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:50:07 +0000

Great post!! My wife and I left it all to go on a year long RTW, but now we’ve been back since October and don’t know what to do. We know that corporate jobs and 1-2 weeks of vacation a year just isn’t going to cut it for us. We thought that our trip was going to “get it out of our systems” and we would return to our home, our jobs, and continue our lives. We did that, but now we are just different people with different needs. We don’t need stuff, the cars, the house, the toys (all great things, but just not at the top of our priority list). We need more experiences. We need to get out on the road again. We need to see more of the world. The trip only fueled the fire.

We don’t have a clear cut plan yet for what we want to do, but we know that we’ve done it once, so we can certainly do it again. It’s funny that we are more nervous about taking the plunge this time than the first time though. Not sure why, exactly, but there’s something hanging over us that’s preventing us from coming up with a legit, smart plan for getting back out on the road.

Thanks for the words of encouragement though. It’s great to read these to get our butts in gear again and make it happen.