Who We Are:
We are a married couple with a shared love of travel who left our corporate jobs to travel the world with our young son, Wolf, and dog, Casey. Bariloche, Argentina is our current home base, where we are in lockdown for the coronavirus.
Our Mission:
Promote the benefits and life enriching experience of world travel, especially with children and pets.
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The first annual snapshot of Matt’s journey to musical virtuosity.
Ancient wisdom found in tales passed down through the ages is now updated - Kid•Dog•Travel style.
How do we balance adventure, risk taking, and safety? Jane talks all about it in this video - with a demonstration from Wolf!
Life is made up of moments. Travel can produce moments that are spectacular. In this post, Matt shares one of those.
This cautionary tale is a must read for all dog owners. Love of a persistent dog leads to the first fateful step down the slippery slope.
With all the social upheaval happening now, Jane shares a few thoughts on how both travel and reading can develop open-minded, tolerant, inclusive kids.
After an entire year of full-time travel and adventure, it's time to reflect on the experience.
How did we possibly go from a large house to a vehicle with a living space about the size of our master closet? Well... it wasn't easy.
How does travel impact kids? Jane goes right to the source. In this interview, Wolf gives his perspective on his many travel experiences.
You want to visit art museums when you travel, but…what about the kids? Here are some creative strategies to help you navigate these outings with ease.
There are a lot of reasons that people use for leaving their kids behind when traveling. Jane makes the case to take them.
Travel can have significant impacts on a person. Especially, a little person! Wolf has been to several foreign countries since he was eight months old. We’ve noticed something about these trips…
Traveling and living abroad is full of experiences, some more challenging than others. But those prepare us to handle whatever comes our way..
You may be wondering how to lead your kids through this pandemic. Jane has a few thoughts on this topic, drawing on her background as head of leadership development for a 5 billion dollar company.
The Coronavirus has made for difficult times. Living in Argentina has raised the stakes for our decisions. We are making the most of an otherwise bad situation.
On our way from Quito to Bariloche, we spent a week in beautiful Buenos Aires. As newly arrived gringos, we were struck by several things different from the United States.
Friends, family, adventure - what more can you need! We got that and more in our week in beautiful Wrangell-St. Elias National Park in eastern Alaska. So much goodness, it will take two blog posts.
After our initial foray into life in an overland vehicle, we have decided to shift our setup. This post explores the why, what, and how of this big development.
While roving all over the northwest, Jane takes a moment to appreciate, well, moments. Whether it’s an amazing beach, surprises from nature, or just hanging out, it is important to recognize how important and precious these moments are.
Breaking down on the road is an ever present worry. And even though you are prepared for it, a breakdown is bad experience. Now imagine that you are in the middle of nowhere and there are serial killers in the area.
After being in our new lifestyle for a few months, Jane finds some insight into how she can best have a healthy and active life.
As parents, we have always been on the less screen time side of the spectrum. However, Wolf does have a tablet where he can watch educational oriented shows. Until, at least, until his behavior changes.
Wolf has always been an active little boy. Especially when it comes to climbing. From the zoo to the park, we would get disapproving looks and sometimes intervention from other parents who apparently felt it was not safe. But is it safer to be “careful”?
There we were… taking a leisurely hop over to town to send some documents to close on the sale of our house. An easy errand for sure. It didn’t quite turn out that way.
Creativity, free expression, writing, drawing - a four year old’s journal truly has it all!
This may not be the most important mystery out there (at least while DB Cooper is still out there), but it should be solved none the less. What is going on with my dog’s butt?
Vehicle dependent travel comes with innumerable decisions. One that confronted us upon our test drive to Overland Expo West was what to use to heat our vehicle. Decision #78 is the result.
A vehicle is chosen and the fun begins! Well… actually, what begins is the somewhat difficult process of transforming it into the truck we wanted.
Overlanding presents limitless possibilities of roads you may travel. As does the approach you take. By defining our mission, we take out first steps.
Kid • Dog • Travel is:
Jane: After growing up in Kansas, Jane has spent most of her adult life living in different parts of the world - Japan, France, India, Dubai. Her insatiable love of travel has brought her to over 70 different countries, including Borneo where she and Matt were engaged. Jane has made perhaps the biggest sacrifice in embarking on our new life - that is, giving up her truly fantastic scarf collection. It's been worth it, and Jane’s passion for seeing the world and learning about different cultures has been supercharged.
Matt: Matt caught the travel bug when he was attending the Naval Academy and took advantage of opportunities to travel to and study in Europe. His time in the Navy brought him to several places in the Pacific rim and cemented travel as part of life and living. His ruggedly handsome appearance should not imply a lack of superior intelligence or cuddly sensitivities. As a trained karate black belt, degreed engineer, and aspiring banjo player, he is well-prepared to trailblaze the world. Notably, he has only crashed the truck once.
Wolf: By the time Wolf turned four, he had four different countries stamped on his passport. When we noticed that significant developmental jumps coincided with our trips, we decided that a life of travel and adventure was the greatest gift we could give him. Fortunately, he is well suited for the lifestyle. He loves to talk to people, makes friends very quickly, and is always eager to explore and learn.
Casey: Casey is a male Rhodesian Ridgeback. Bred to hunt lions in southern Africa, Ridgebacks are built for running fast over long distances. Casey is no exception. He loves to run. He also loves to not listen very well, but we are working on that. He is now a 100 pound puppy and is figuring out how to manage his Usain Bolt-like speed.
Our Rig: After first hitting the road in an LMTV based overland camper, we shifted to a more flexible setup that better fit our approach to travel. We are traveling in a Ram 3500 and an Eagle Cap truck camper. We pull an 8x5 off-road capable trailer for all of our gear. The pickup is a Laramie crew cab with duallies. The Eagle Cap is a model 1165 with three slide outs providing a large kitchen, dinette, and, yes, twin recliners! It has all the standard amenities of a camper plus a dry shower and a propane generator. The trailer has a fully articulating hitch, axle-less suspension, and off-road tires. Outfitted with shelves and tie-downs, it provides enough space for our e-bikes, camping gear, and lots more.
Our Favorite Overlanding/Travel Sites
Overland Bound has loads of adventures documented on their site and youtube channel. Always interesting and very good production. One of my favorites is their video on how to use Light Room to improve the look of your photos.
Let’s Not Panic is a podcast that chronicles the adventures of a San Fran couple who left their jobs, gave up their lease, and traveled through South America and beyond in their Toyota Forerunner. They are trying not to panic!
Bliss or Die is one of our favorites since they have an LMTV too. We looked into Bliss Mobil before getting our rig so we closely followed their progress as they started their travel adventures. Darrell is a fellow cancer survivor too.
Other Favorite Places
Expedition Portal (of course!)
Graeme Bell and Family
Expedition Overland
The Mad FIentist
One of the highlights of living in Bariloche is world class skiing. This video is from our first visit to the mountain and Wolf’s first time on skis.