Family
We Don’t Want Kids Who Know Airport Codes
We want kids who understand the world — not the curated, filtered, tourist-trap version. The real one. The complicated, breathtaking, heartbreaking, sacred one.
— Marae & Roger
What We’re Actually Teaching Our Kids
Not airport efficiency. Not hotel loyalty programs. Not the fastest route from A to B.
We’re teaching them to look at a culture they’ve never encountered and feel curiosity instead of fear. To sit at a stranger’s table and eat something they’ve never seen before. To hear a language they don’t understand and listen for the music in it anyway.
We want Alaska and Atlas to know the forgotten cultures — the ones who didn’t get to write the history books, the ones whose stories live in the faces of their grandchildren and in the food they’ve been cooking for five hundred years. We want them to understand that those stories matter. That those lives matter. That every civilization that ever built something beautiful did so because they loved something deeply.
Love and Hate — Both Are the Point
We want our children to fall in love with this Earth. And we want them to feel the ache when they see it damaged. Because only through that depth of feeling — real love, real grief — do you become someone who fights for it.
Fights for cleaner air and clean energy. For a sustainable future. For the forests and the reefs and the mountain glaciers. For the rights of every living creature that makes this planet precisely what it is: miraculous.
You cannot fight for something you’ve never truly seen. Travel makes you see it.
We’re All the Same
Religion, borders, geography, looks — these are human inventions. Powerful ones, yes. But underneath them, everywhere we have traveled across 90+ countries, we have found the same things: people who love their children, people who are proud of where they come from, people who laugh at the same things and cry at the same things and want the same things for their families.
We travel because it is the fastest way to understand this truth. And once you understand it, you cannot unsee it. That is the gift we are giving our kids. That is what we want for all kids.
Travel is not a luxury. Travel is the education.
Raising Global Citizens
Alaska has visited 26 countries. Atlas, 21. Neither of them chose this — but both of them are already more at home in the world than most adults ever get to be.