![]() ![]() ❤️□□ This is our amazing guide/spotter this week on safari. “That’s like the one thing I feel like I’m taking from them with all of this.” “Sometimes we would have friends come out and visit for a week and when they would go home my daughter would just lose it and it was the hardest thing for me,” said Jessica. “We were just excited because Garrett and I both had that and loved it and loved public school, especially the friendship thing,” said Jessica.įriendship is another big reason the Gee family is slowing down a bit. In fact, he started crawling the day the Gees moved into their new home.īut Garrett and Jessica say they never felt pressured to slow down to put the kids in a traditional school setting. ![]() Manilla, 4, began preschool, and Calihan, or “baby Tarzan” as they sweetly call him, is 7 months old and just became mobile. ![]() Their 5-year-old daughter Dorothy started kindergarten this year. The kids can get involved with school and soccer and other activities like that,” said Garrett. “This is home base while we continue to travel, this is a place where we can have some consistency, community. School was one of the reasons the Gees decided to buy a home. And then I got pregnant and it didn’t feel right,” Jessica said. “We highly considered New Zealand, we even applied and got accepted for a visa. While the Gees love Utah and say they will always consider the Beehive State one of their homes, they chose Hawaii because of its location, outdoor adventure, and the laid-back lifestyle in the Aloha State. “She fell in love with Hawaii and I was like, ‘alright, let’s do it!’” “Any island, any island would do,” added her husband Garrett Gee. “Garrett has been trying to get me to move to Hawaii for forever now,” said Jessica Gee. After three years and 63 countries, the full-time traveling family from Utah is now settling down in Hawaii. HAWAII - They’re known around the world as The Bucket List Family with millions of people following their weekly adventures on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook. Reading or replaying the story in itsĪrchived form does not constitute a republication of the story. ![]() She recalls a time when the family were flying from Chile to the Falkland Islands, when the plane was hit with too much wind and had to turn around.Only for your personal, non-commercial use. Courtesy Garrett GeeĮven when plans change, Gee says being prepared to go with the flow allows the family to turn unplanned problems into spontaneous fun. That’s what you hope for, I think, as a parent, finding joy together.” When things don't go to plan, Gee says it's always important to go with the flow. “Every kid is smiling, and the rest of the day, everyone was just like, ‘That was the best.’ Those are some of the best moments as a family, when you all get to participate together and you all find joy in the same thing. “Everybody was surfing, everybody was catching waves,” Gee says. On the same trip in Fiji where the whole family got sick, Gee says she and the family had one of their best moments traveling when they all went out to surf. "Being prepared in a way that when things do go wrong, that you have the financial means and the ability to miss a day, stuff like that. “You got to be prepared enough for when things to go wrong," she tells. She says the whole flight turned into a disaster while everyone was sick. Courtesy Garrett GeeĪnother time, the whole family got sick in Fiji when Jessica and the kids had to leave, while Garett stayed back. The hard part of travel, she notes, "also kind of sweetens the good times.” The family has been traveling since August 2015. "Then I had a realization where I was like, 'I don’t have a home.' A couple of seconds later, it sounds cheesy, I was like, 'This is my home, these people are my home.' It doesn’t matter where I am, right?" ![]()
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