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14. The World Classroom: How Rachel's Family Found Community on the Road

14. The World Classroom: How Rachel's Family Found Community on the Road

Update: 2025-08-21
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🎉 Rachel Carlson and her family have been traveling full-time for over seven years. Despite initial challenges and a period of loneliness, they found a solution by creating the World School Pop-Up Hub, a community-focused initiative that brings traveling families together for shared experiences. 

🌎 This move addressed their children's need for consistent peer interaction and allowed them to continue their travels while building lasting friendships across continents. 

👍 The world schooling experience has profoundly influenced Rachel's children as they launched into adulthood, choosing to pursue their passions and developing a strong sense of independence and problem-solving. 

✨ IN THIS EPISODE:

  • The evolution from homeownership to working online and starting a nomadic full time travel lifestyle with teens and tweens. 
  • Opting for unschooling as the kids became more engaged in learning directly from their environments, such as exploring Roman ruins in Italy or understanding local culture through fishing.
  • Overcoming the challenge of loneliness and lack of consistent community by creating the World School Pop-Up Hub to allow traveling families to connect with each other. 
  • Their financial strategies before traveling and while living on the road including a focus on cutting accommodation and transit costs while not focusing on food and experience expenses. 

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14. The World Classroom: How Rachel's Family Found Community on the Road

14. The World Classroom: How Rachel's Family Found Community on the Road

Suzy May