Hi from Anthony and Jodie! We are the Learners and Makers. Traveling the world full time since 2022, we empower families and people with mobility disabilities to travel confidently, their way. Greetings from Warsaw, Poland! We are on the last legs of our Baltic Summer tour of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland—but our thoughts this week are turning somewhere else. A couple of summers ago, we were seeking a place to break up a bigger road trip. With many plans afoot for Illinois,...
10 days ago • 2 min read
Hi from Anthony and Jodie! We are the Learners and Makers. Traveling the world full time since 2022, we empower families and people with mobility disabilities to travel confidently, their way. When you travel full time, you also plan travel full time. That’s a reality we’ve gotten used to over the almost-four-years that we’ve been traveling as a family. Day trips, a sightseeing afternoon, a weekend away, where we might find a vacation rental for a month’s stay in a new-to-us country: that’s...
17 days ago • 2 min read
Hi from Anthony and Jodie! We are the Learners and Makers. Traveling the world full time since 2022, we empower families and people with mobility disabilities to travel confidently, their way. We’ve appreciated waterfalls all over the world. So it is with no undue consideration, that from our thoroughly biased opinions, we assert that the USA’s Pacific Northwest has some of the best, most easily accessed waterfalls in the entire freaking world. In Oregon alone, there’s Multnomah Falls east of...
24 days ago • 2 min read
Hi from Anthony and Jodie! We are the Learners and Makers. Traveling the world full time since 2022, we empower families and people with mobility disabilities to travel confidently, their way. Ah, the push and pull of travel. Over the past month, we’ve been reveling in European breads, cheeses, and charcuterie. I’m going to miss all these delectable Finnish rye breads and crackers, not to mention black licorice fudge. Just typing that, I think I’ve got to run to the candy bins at the grocery...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hi from Anthony and Jodie! We are the Learners and Makers. Traveling the world full time since 2022, we empower families and people with mobility disabilities to travel confidently, their way. Waves lapping against sea islands, birch leaves rustling in a breeze, bread and cheese: We’ve been delighting in Finland these past few weeks. We’re also getting ready for a few weeks of faster travel. Throughout August, we’ll be “travel taste-testing” Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. With only a...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hi from Anthony and Jodie! We are the Learners and Makers. Traveling the world full time since 2022, we empower families and people with mobility disabilities to travel confidently, their way. I know, I know. We haven’t even been out of Japan for 2 weeks, but we’re already talking about it again. That’s how Japan is. You don’t just visit. Japan becomes part of you. We talk about Japan so much not only because of our love for the country, its culture, and its people. Japan consistently ranks...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Hi from Anthony and Jodie! We are the Learners and Makers. Traveling the world full time since 2022, we empower families and people with mobility disabilities to travel confidently, their way. Packing is one of travel’s trickiest challenges. We want to bring enough. But not too much. We need to be mindful of just-in-case scenarios… except they literally weigh us down. We’ve been traveling for nearly 4 years. Our packing is still improving. However, we have learned a lot, including a little...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Hi from Anthony and Jodie! We are the Learners and Makers. Traveling the world full time since 2022, we empower families and people with mobility disabilities to travel confidently, their way. We're about to go back to Europe, and that's got us thinking about our first visit to the grand ole continent in 2024. Our first European country as a family was Portugal (followed by Spain and Italy). On a rainy November afternoon, we made our way to a comfy apartment across the street from a cafe that...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Hi from Anthony and Jodie! We are the Learners and Makers. Traveling the world full time since 2022, we empower families and people with mobility disabilities to travel confidently, their way. So, we’re not quite freaking out… but we are very excited. In less than two weeks, we’ll be closing up our wee Japan condo and leaving Japan for the first time in almost three months. Our condo now feels so much like home. The kids have loved being in their rooms. We’ve gotten more familiar with our...
2 months ago • 2 min read