Couple Sold Everything to Travel & Homeschool their 3 Kids | Family World Travel

Hey guys. Hey. We are Angel and Kaylee. We're from When in Rome Travels. We sold everything about seven months ago. We're originally from Montana. We own a house. We bought a house three years ago and we own two restaurants there. Just the overload of work that we're doing, over 100 hours a week, owning two restaurants, between the two of us trying to manage a staff of 15 plus people. It just got to us and one day we just pinched the idea to Kaylee and told her we're going to sell everything. I said no way. He wanted to travel around in a motorhome and I said no way. That's a horrible idea. That doesn't sound great at all. But the more we researched, the more we looked around, we found other vloggers who were doing something similar. It looked pretty good. Yeah. Downsizing, taking, getting rid of all the junk that we've accumulated for the last eight years we've been together. Well, 11 years at the time we've been together, but in the same spot we've been for seven years since we opened the restaurant and we just keep dragging things all over the country and just accumulating more stuff that we didn't need. Tough deals. We sold everything, our house, our three car, four cars that we had and decided to buy an RV and hit the road. And that's what we did. We left our home in Montana in September with our motorhome. It's a 38 foot class A, um, nice and spacious, which is what we thought we needed. Um, but seven months later we feel like we could go even smaller, but we started in Montana. We went all the way down the West coast, um, had a few side tracks. We broke down a couple of times, but we ended up getting all the way to California. We went all the way through the South across Texas, Louisiana, down to the tip of Florida. Um, and then we started back up the East coast. And so we are currently in the Washington DC area, kind of exploring the area around DC, Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay. It's beautiful. It's where we are now. We're right on the beach at the Chesapeake Bay with our kids. We have three kids, Fiona, Hugo, and Remy. They're ages 11, six and three. Um, it's probably such a big RV. Uh, and so we're heading up the East coast now, uh, all the way to Maine. And then we had just about two months left in our trip before we start getting all the way back to Montana to plan for our next trip. For our next trip, um, around the we're leaving end of July, hopefully. Um, and we're going to travel first in Europe. We're going to do Asia after that. And then South America and maybe New Zealand, Australia. If, uh, we have money and time left, that's our plan. Uh, originally wanted to do this in Airbnb style, but we decided that it's cheaper to just rent a van. So we're going to go from a class a into a, like a sprinter van, like a class B type deal motorhome, uh, where we can park anywhere and go anywhere. We're looking to, um, either buy one here or buy one when we get over to Europe. Angel's a European citizen. So that cuts some of the, some of the hecticness out of it for us. So we're going to buy a sprinter van. Maybe it'll already be remodeled. Maybe not. We might do it ourselves. And then, um, it'd be kind of wild with three kids, but we're going to travel around Europe for three to four months in the van, trying to see as much as we possibly can see. Um, we really want to not just see the touristy things. We really want to get involved in the culture, um, which is part of why we're doing this trip because Angel is a chef and I'm a sommelier. Uh, and the big impetus for this trip, uh, other than spending time with our kids and getting out of the hundred hour work week was for us to explore and, um, explore new avenues to learn about food and wine, to go to the places, uh, to eat at great restaurants, to go to wineries, um, all over the world. And I think the ultimate goal is to be able to publish some sort of cookbook at the end, um, as kind of a, an amalgamation of all the cultures and the recipes and the people we've met. Um, that's the kind of the, the final goal. What's the favorite place you've visited so far? I like Orlando and I like Disney World. I really liked being, um, in the white sands in New Mexico. That was lots of fun. Yeah. Uh, we slid down the dunes with sleds that we rented. How's it different from when you lived in your house and we were at the restaurant all the time? We never got to see, uh, mom and dad and they were always gone, just like always gone. Well, now we see them all the time and we're always in the same room. Uh, we used to get up early in the morning. We would put, get our kids off to school, free school, all kinds of things like that. And then we would get, get to work maybe 10, 10 30 in the morning. We had two restaurants, um, 30 employees. We would spend all day working. Um, usually had a full-time nanny. We would get home. Yeah. We get home 11 o'clock midnight, uh, go to sleep, see our kids the next morning for a few minutes and go back to work. We did that straight for seven years. Um, and about six years into it, we decided enough was enough. We weren't spending time with our kids. Um, so we decided that it was time to, to downsize and to, to do something else that let us spend time with our kids. The lifestyle is really exceptional. We get to go where we want, when we want, um, see the things that I think we've been wanting to see for a long time. We just went to Washington DC yesterday. It's really, it's really great. And we get to introduce the kids to, um, American history and they get to see it firsthand and really experience. Um, you can read about Virginia in a book and the American revolution, or you can go to the American revolutionary museum in Virginia. And I think it really puts it all in place for them and gives them good perspective. Um, and the next year as we go around the world, um, you know, you can read about India or, you know, Thailand, but to be there is, you know, really changes everything for you. So that's part of, part of it, um, for us about food and wine and then taking the kids around the world to really give them firsthand experience on what other people live like. It's becoming more common in the younger generation too, because this lifestyle traveling around RV, it's mostly when you've done everything and you retired. So for us, in the United States and stuff. So we've been, uh, lucky enough that we work hard and we're able to save money and be able to do this lifestyle at such an early, we're both of us 33. Well, I'm 33, she's 33, almost 33 and we have three children. So we started life at 21. We had our first kid, Fiona, and, uh, we started a little bit young. So a little bit ahead of the game. Uh, but we were working so much. We just, we got, we were very successful. The restaurants were, um, really successful. We were making a lot of money. Um, and it didn't, it didn't feel like it was, it didn't feel like it was the right path for us. We were, you know, buying more things and we had more debt and we were accruing more stress more than anything. And it just didn't feel like that's what we were meant to be doing. Cause when we met, we met in Italy, we met in Rome. Um, he was working in restaurants and I was a student and we had nothing. We just had each other and life and all the experiences it threw at us. Um, and somehow like sort of amassed into this big stressful, um, way to make money. Yeah, it was definitely the road to like a secure lifestyle and like, uh, retiring pretty much. Like we could see, but we're like, is this it? We could take that yearly trip. Like we were, we went to Greece a couple of years after we were on the restaurant for two weeks, but we couldn't, uh, we didn't bring the kids. And, uh, there's this pressure to, to be successful. Um, and I think success is often defined for you in particular United States by having money, having security, having material possessions. Um, and I'm not just us, but there is a culture of people who are stepping away from that. Um, and really looking for experiences to fill the voids rather than, um, material things. Um, and I think we found just in a short time in seven months that, uh, we made the right choice. I don't, I don't regret anything we sold. I don't regret the loss of possessions or the house or the cars. I don't miss any of it. In fact, I can't remember most of what we sold. After we sold, it was like a big revelation. It was like we're missing, we had been missing part of our life. Uh, now we wake up in the morning at a regular time and we get to make breakfast with the kids. And, uh, after that Kaylee started homeschooling with them. Um, so we'll do lots of bookwork, math, things like that. Uh, we'll do Italian, we'll do Greek mythology, we'll do, um, you know, computer, you know, things, typing, stuff like that. And then we'll, uh, stagger that with museums and parks and the beach and all of it kind of counts. And it's, uh, interest led. We let them sort of pick and choose what they're really interested in. Um, right now they're really interested in astronomy. They've learned a lot of things about constellations and moons and stars and planets. So they're really into that. They're into, uh, rocks. They have got a monstrous rock collection. So it's been really fun for us. Um, and I think it's been fun for them. I think the only hard part for them is maybe that, um, they miss their friends. What's one of your favorite things about traveling full time? Uh, we get to see new good places. Do you guys like tasting new food? What are some new things you've tried? Um, I like pesce. Pesce in Italian, which is what in English? Fish. Any types of fish that you've tried that you really enjoyed? Um, uh, oysters. Oysters. Should other kids travel full time in an RV? Yeah. Yeah. You have to be able to like your family a lot. Do you like living in the RV? Yes. Yes. Remy, what's your favorite color? Red and blue. What's your favorite food? I forgot. Red and blue and green. The best thing about the traveling full time for us has been the, uh, you know, the, the proximity of each other. And sometimes we drive each other crazy and being in such a, uh, going from like a 3,600 square feet home to an RV, which is 250, uh, has been, you know, but the whole point about this is spending time outside and seeing things and there's been straight weeks or rainy days and stuff. That might be the worst part about it. Maybe it's just, um, not having your own private space and your own time to be on your own. Um, cause I think everyone needs just, you know, an hour here and there just to sort of relax. But even the house, the kids will find you. Everything was thrown at us, like the restaurants and everything. And now we gave all that up for something different and who knows what our next step is going to be. Watch how we learn both through books and by actually seeing and doing. The world is our school. The world is our oyster. So join us as we discover the sights, sounds, and beauties of the world around us.