FamilyLifeOnTheRoad

A family adventure with a twist…

Follow our steps as we travel through South and Central America in a camper van with our two young children.

A passion for family travel & adventure

Waiting for the “perfect time” to leave your job and travel long-term with your children?

Holding-off until the kids are the “right age” to take them out of montessori or school?

Bad news (or good news), there is no perfect time or right age.

Now is the best time…always!!

Want To Travel With Your Kids

We share our first-hand experience of family life on the road, travelling overland in South and Central America with our two young children.

Preparing For The Big Adventure

Getting ready for departure is one of the most challenging aspects of long-term travel. We detail our experience with family, friends, schools and much more…

Education

How our children are educated is such an important topic for each parent. We share our thoughts, experience and learnings in depth.

Where To Go & What To See

We share detailed travel itineraries covering all our favourite places, sites and experiences in South and Central America.

Personal Development

Extended travel is about more than simply sightseeing. We learn more about ourselves planning & during such a trip than most people do over the course of a lifetime.

Travel Coaching

When you are truly happy, those around you will feed off this positive energy. Let us help you become the best version of yourself, for your next big adventure and for your day-day life.

An array of resources

Our comprehensive suite of travel, educational and personal growth resources will help you make the next big steps in your life for you and your families.

FamilyLifeOnTheRoad Blog Posts

  • Weekly posts about our latest adventures.
  • Experience the world of South and Central America travel in a motorhome.
  • Learn about a 24/7 life shared with our two children.

FamilyLifeOnTheRoad Travel Guides

  • Periodic updates about travel essentials.
  • Get to know the places, things and cultures of South and Central America.
  • Including travel itineraries, sites to visit, country & city guides etc.

FamilyLifeOnTheRoad Travel Coaching

  • Coaching for people eager to set off on an amazing life-changing adventure.
  • 1-1 sessions aimed at practically and emotionally preparing you (and your family) for the big trip.
  • Coaching to unearth what really makes you happy and how you can plan your trip to make this your daily reality.

“Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.”

Oscar Wilde

Irish poet & playwright

Blog posts: read, view & be inspired!

  • Vegan Life On The Road

    Vegan Life On The Road

    Having made the personal choice to change to a plant-based (vegan) diet four years previously, our decision to travel South America in a camper van brought with it plenty of dietary-related challenges and concerns. The most common asked questions were always: Before answering, I think it is pertinent to briefly detail the transition I made…

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  • Education On The Road

    Education On The Road

    Many people have asked us how we have managed the education of our children during the year on the road. A year is a long time, certainly a long and crucial period in the development of two kids less than 10 years old. We fully appreciate the importance of learning and so have tried to…

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  • Our Vehicle

    Our Vehicle

    Our beloved camper van, christened “Grandullona” by the kids, has taken us the length of South America this year, covering a distance of 25,000km. It has brought us to the end of the world in Ushuaia, through the majestic Andes Mountains, across the Argentine pampas and across the Altiplano in Bolivia at altitudes close to…

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  • A Day In The Life

    A Day In The Life

    Lots of people have been asking me what a typical day looks like for us. Well it is certainly different to our life before we started this adventure! There we used to rush out the door most mornings, juggle school and creche drop-offs and collects, ferry kids to after-school activities, throw a dinner together as…

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  • Fun At The Port

    Fun At The Port

    Having decided to continue our family adventure into Central America, we had the not so minor logistical task ahead of arranging shipping for our house-on-wheels. As previously mentioned, while Colombia and Panama share a physical border, there is no road connection due to the dense jungle separating the countries. As such, shipping would be our…

    Read more: Fun At The Port
  • Stick Or Twist…

    Stick Or Twist…

    As we travelled north alongside the immense Pacific Ocean and through the majestic Andes Mountains, a relatively important decision loomed larger and larger in the background. It was something we had discussed both prior to beginning this family adventure and along the way at various stages. But as time and kilometres ticked by, this was…

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  • Flooding In Cartagena

    Flooding In Cartagena

    Arriving in Cartagena de Indias (to give it its full name) could best be described as arriving in the middle of a raging inferno, just without the actual flames. We have been to many hot places on this adventure, but a combination of the heat and humidity made the city as challenging as we had…

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  • A Change Of Scenery

    A Change Of Scenery

    Having spent ten days in the hectic capital city of Bogota, proceeded by a couple of months of fairly full-on tourist activity, we felt that a change of dynamic was required for us all. We could see that the kids had been having too much stimulus via tours, trips, sights and attractions. We had been…

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  • Do Something That You Love

    Do Something That You Love

    While travelling through Peru and Ecuador, we had met quite a few fellow travellers. Often we would share details about where we had been, stories of life on the road, and future plans for the upcoming weeks and months. Two things that we kept hearing were about; the amazing Moroccans and their beautiful campsite and…

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  • Cauca Roadblocks

    Cauca Roadblocks

    In many places in South America (and the world over for that matter), indigenous people often struggle to get their voices heard with local and national authorities. Try as they might, those in power frequently fail to engage and help resolve the issues of the people living there the longest. As we are aware in…

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