Wander Worldschool: Slow & Long-Term Family Travel

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

Send us a text! Questions? Feedback? Shoutouts? Text here!🎉 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 and prices! Get speaking TODAY in your target language! Get 70% off your trial lesson and support the show by confirming your first plan! Go to Preply now!https://preply.com/en/?pref=MTAyMDY4NzQ=&id=1768937994.039059&ep=w1 Support the showHost: I'm Suzy May and my family lives between Spain and Colorado. 🌞 🌎 We feature traveling families + worldschool creators taking learning global. 🚀 The information provided is for general informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended as financial, investment, legal, or tax advice ✔️ ❤️ Follow + review! 📧 pod@suzymay.com 📲 All the links!

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

Send us a text! Questions? Feedback? Shoutouts? Text here!🎉 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 and prices! Get speaking TODAY in your target language! Get 70% off your trial lesson and support the show by confirming your first plan! Go to Preply now!https://preply.com/en/?pref=MTAyMDY4NzQ=&id=1768937994.039059&ep=w1 Support the showHost: I'm Suzy May and my family lives between Spain and Colorado. 🌞 🌎 We feature traveling families + worldschool creators taking learning global. 🚀 The information provided is for general informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended as financial, investment, legal, or tax advice ✔️ ❤️ Follow + review! 📧 pod@suzymay.com 📲 All the links!

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

Send us a text! Questions? Feedback? Shoutouts? Text here!🎉 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 College05:00 – Trading the Bakery for the World12:00 – The Reality of Worldschooling17:17 – Sourdough on the Road24:43 – The Finances of Slow Travel28:26 – Challenges: From Rural Barns to Mooing Cows35:32 – Lightning Round & Wrap UpPreply connects you directly with tutors from around the world at all times and prices! Get speaking TODAY in your target language! Get 70% off your trial lesson and support the show by confirming your first plan! Go to Preply now!https://preply.com/en/?pref=MTAyMDY4NzQ=&id=1768937994.039059&ep=w1 Support the showHost: I'm Suzy May and my family lives between Spain and Colorado. 🌞 🌎 We feature traveling families + worldschool creators taking learning global. 🚀 The information provided is for general informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended as financial, investment, legal, or tax advice ✔️ ❤️ Follow + review! 📧 pod@suzymay.com 📲 All the links!

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

Send us a text! Questions? Feedback? Shoutouts? Text here!🎉 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 Facebookhttps://projectmaximusmusic.com/Original songs by Maxwell Lee!Opening song: Because of YouClosing song: Someday You'll SeePreply connects you directly with tutors from around the world at all times and prices! Get speaking TODAY in your target language! Get 70% off your trial lesson and support the show by confirming your first plan! Go to Preply now!https://preply.com/en/?pref=MTAyMDY4NzQ=&id=1768937994.039059&ep=w1 Support the showHost: I'm Suzy May and my family lives between Spain and Colorado. 🌞 🌎 We feature traveling families + worldschool creators taking learning global. 🚀 The information provided is for general informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended as financial, investment, legal, or tax advice ✔️ ❤️ Follow + review! 📧 pod@suzymay.com 📲 All the links!

Bonus! 2025 Reflections and Best Of with Mark!

Send us a text! Questions? Feedback? Shoutouts? Text here!🎉 In this special bonus episode, I invite my husband Mark to reflect on our favorite parts and best of´s of 2025 and we share a bit about our 2026 plans!🌎 What was our most memorable view to wake up to? Favorite meal? Most difficult destination to reach? Tune in to find out!👍 Don´t miss Flow with Connie into 2026, a gentle and welcoming way to ease into the new year! Sign up here!Resources:Thank you for sharing this journey with me this year! So many amazing stories to come in 2026! Click 'All The Links' below to support this show and book a free 30 minute Discovery Call!Support the showHost: I'm Suzy May and my family lives between Spain and Colorado. 🌞 🌎 We feature traveling families + worldschool creators taking learning global. 🚀 The information provided is for general informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended as financial, investment, legal, or tax advice ✔️ ❤️ Follow + review! 📧 pod@suzymay.com 📲 All the links!