During our travels, this section of Five Tickets to Roam housed the full archive of my Travel Stories chronicling our family’s worldschooling adventures — the funny moments, the chaotic mishaps, the emotional highs, and the unexpected lessons discovered across four continents.

But now… the stories that once lived here have been transformed into a full-length book!  So we've hidden the original posts so readers can experience the complete journey the way it was meant to be read — beautifully illustrated, professionally edited, and collected into one narrative.

The book will be available on Amazon very soon.

Once it’s live, you’ll find the Amazon link right here on this page.  In the meantime, here is the book cover image followed by a synopsis. 

Five Tickets to Roam is a heartwarming, humorous, and deeply personal chronicle of one family’s year-long attempt to trade routines for wonder. With three kids, two backpacks, and a wildly optimistic itinerary, Dan and Francesca set off to see the world — and discovered that travel doesn’t just change the places you go, it changes the people you become.

From Greek islands to Moroccan deserts, from Thai night markets to Slovenian mountaintops, every chapter captures a new adventure, a new mishap, or a new moment of connection. Dan’s storytelling blends laugh-out-loud family chaos with tender reflections on parenting, marriage, and what it means to build a life filled with curiosity instead of comfort.

Along the way, they meet unforgettable locals, wrestle with cultural misunderstandings, lose their car keys more than once, and learn that the best travel stories rarely come from the things you plan — they come from the things you survive.

Equal parts memoir, travelogue, and family comedy, Five Tickets to Roam is an invitation to embrace the world with wide eyes and an open heart… and maybe to book that trip you’ve been dreaming about, too.