I can't remember which channel we discussed this in, but ages ago I shared somewhere about my wish to be "location independent" and travel with my family while working remotely, so that we could spend money on experiences rather than housing and tuition. Just wanted to share that we're actually doing it for this year, we just left on Sunday

This is cool. How did you become location independent schooling wise?

Wow! Will you be blogging your adventure?

You are going to travel for a full year? Really want to hear about this. Are you homeschooling + remote working?

so my husband was doing consulting work and is much more flexible than me, so he's cutting back and doing the homeschooling. I'm technically hybrid but was able to get my boss and grandboss to sign off on letting that slide for a year (I'm not based out of the same location as the rest of my team anyway, so it doesn't really hurt anyone if I don't come in)

Keep us updated, sounds like fun!

Amazing! Would love to follow this journey

What a beautiful trip. So happy it worked. A dream of ours I don’t see becoming reality anytime soon.

I'm so intrigued. You don't have to answer any of this but wondering - how old are your kids? How does the homeschooling work or not work? Where are you traveling? Do you have an RV? What do you travel in? Did you keep your house or rent it out?

@bright-restaurant-33087 we have 5 kids -- 12, 11, 9, 6, 4. Don't know yet how homeschool will work out! we're not starting to work on that until August/Sept. From the research we'vedone, the actual material needed to keep your kids on par for the next grade is really not very much. so you can do more experience based learning-- like learning about the things you're seeing or the area you're in, or what particularly interests each kid We don't have an exact itinerary yet. Our basic plan for now is: great lakes area (we're by lake erie right now) for July, Smoky Mountains for August, Dallas for September (we lived in Dallas until a year ago, so we have very close friends/community where we'll spend the chagim). After that, the idea is Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, California. We also plan to go to Israel for pesach. (my parents and in laws live there) We bought a "skoolie" which is a schoolbus converted to an RV. Its actually really nice inside, although of course pretty crowded with all of us. We actually just bought a house (we'd been renting for the past year), and we rented it out for the year, so that will cover the mortgage payments. If this ends up being a huge disaster, we have an airbnb property that we can move into, although we'd still need to homeschool cuz its not near any schools

unreal! are you planning on working out of the skoolie full time? how is it gona work? (genuinely curious not skeptical) awesome!

that is the plan... but we'll have to see. so far i've been spending a nice bit of hte day outside working on a lawn chair. it's not necessarily my most productive work, but not terrible either. We have a great kitchen table which will be an option once everyone is on a more set schedule and I can rely on having the bus be quiet

What do your kids do a whole day? Travel? What about food?

super super cool!! have the best time and hatzlacha!

My kids want to join. Sounds like tons of fun!

so we just got here on sunday night but so far everyones been sleeping late, waking up around 9 (the back of the bus has no windows, so its very dark) then breakfast and davening until like 10 ish, then bike riding or roller blading around until like 12 or 1 , then lunch, and then they've been hanging out at teh beach most of the afternoon (this section of the beach is only for registered campers and there are lots of areas that are basically deserted)

This is so cool! I opened an Instagram account just to follow your journey. Hope you guys have a great experience.

Any updates? I'm so excited.

Call it The Rivian!

Oh that's a nice one 10 points

@thankful-angle-58448 how do you keep the freezer powered all day?

@mysterious-tomato-10057 its going well so far! really too early to tell because we're still kinda in vacation mode. Our first nearly two weeks were in a state park in MI that was literally on lake erie. there was a beach just for registered campers about 30 seconds for our site that was basically deserted most of the time (besides maybe sunday). It was beautiful. we just yesterday came to a state park in OH that's a very different feel. very woodsy, each lot is a clearing in teh woods. our internet device is barely working here, so I had to go to starbucks today which was not cool. so we have to figure something out with that. but here we were ablet o set up the zipline we brought with us because there's so many trees and the kids are having a great time with that. my kids started journaling about the adventures each day, which I absolutely love, and hope that it continues (they're only on their like third day)

our internet device is barely working here, so I had to go to starbucks today which was not cool

What about something like Starlink?

starlink only works with a clear view of the sky which doesn't work in areas with heavy tree cover

Rivy- this is amazing!!! Tell us about your plans. My husband and our 4 kids are working to be in your position within the next 5 yrs (kids will be similar ages BH). We will use our RE income to live off, and we want to do world schooling while traveling with the kids. Can you tell us about your plans for connecting with other frum families - either those who are traveling like you or those in various communities? Also how will you plan for kids’ education? Loose outlines? Will you travel with books? We are thinking to book air bnbs for a month(ish) at a time and do day trips, that way kashering/cooking won’t be a mess and we’ll have a home base.

Rivy we need an update!

See above: @thankful-angle-58448

hey I'm so sorry I haven't updated in forever! We're doing pretty well! We're in sedona, AZ now which is stunning and much warmer than MD 🙂 homeschooling is a pretty big challenge, and we feel like we're not going to really know how it went until next year when we see how the kids do back in their classes @limited-apple-99042 We haven't made connecting with frum families a major priority, since this is a one year thing, not a long term plan. But we do spend a decent percentage of shabbosim in frum communities, and often connect that way. we brought a set of workbooks for each kid for language arts and science. math the kids do online, and we've got some sefarim for judaic studies as well. Please feel free to PM me! I'd also love to hear about you RE stuff, I also invest, but although my plan was to eventually be able to leave my job and live off the RE income, its starting to feel more and more like a pipedream