Hi! I’m Emilie, the voice behind this road trip and adventure travel website.
I usually travel with my husband and our boys, but I’ll sometimes travel solo. We’re a Canadian-American family whose mission is to live a life rich in experiences rather than material possessions through travel and outdoor adventures.
You’ve probably heard this saying a few things when you started talking about having kids “Travel now because you won’t be able when you have kids…” Or any derivations.
Well… We are here to prove to all families that you can still travel when you have kids and be adventurous.
In fact, since having kids, we’ve been so much more active and adventurous in the outdoors. We also made some epic trips, such as:
- visiting National Parks across the USA,
- road-tripping across Canada and Western USA.
- converting a passenger van into a small family campervan.
From epic national parks to little Prairie towns to hiking and everything in between, we wanted to give you a local perspective of the area.
⛰️ We EXPLORE.
⛰️ We spend quality FAMILY TIME.
⛰️ We build our lives around EXPERIENCES.
⛰️ We LEARN along the way
Our mission
Our mission is simple: to inspire and empower families to embrace life’s adventures, whether near or far. Through our travel experiences, detailed itineraries, full destination guides, tips, and insights, we aim to ignite your wanderlust and provide the tools and knowledge to turn your family travel dreams into reality.
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Let’s connect, share, and inspire one another to explore the world and live fully.
Who is behind Love Life Abroad: A bit more about us.
Nathan and I met more than 10 years ago in Italy. We ended up staying at the same hostel on Ischia Island, traveled around together throughout Italy and kept in touch. Later that same year, I visited him in California (We had one of our first dates in beautiful Lake Tahoe).
I’m Emilie.
👩 born and raised in Quebec City (Canada)
📍 lived in Canada, France and United States
🌎 visited 25+ countries
📚 travel guide writer & project manager
This is Nathan.
👩 born and raised in California (USA)
📍 lived in United States, Canada, France
🌎 visited 10+ countries
📚 digital marketer and professional travel writer
These little ones are Noah and Sam.
👩 Noah was born in France, Sam in Canada
✈️ took their first international flight at 3 months old
📚 playground researchers/experts
🎤 They interviewed us:
- Pattons With Passports: The Outdoor-Road Trip Travel Mom
- RV West: A Canadian-American family follows their travel dreams
- Travel Insurance Master: Talking Travel with Emilie, Love Life Abroad
- A Mom Explores: Podcast Episode 6: Calgary & the Canadian Rockies with Kids
✍️ I wrote for them
- HomeExchange → Discover the 11 Best Ski Resorts in Canada
- Sawyer → Why Sunscreen Should Be a Staple for Winter Adventures
- Harvest Hosts → Harvest Hosts With Kids: What to Look for in a Host
- GoWhee App → Best Small Towns to Visit in Canada with Kids
🇫🇷 EXEMPLES EN FRANÇAIS
- HomeExchange → Quoi faire pendant les vacances de la construction 2024
- Tourisme Alberta → Calgary en famille : quand aventure rime avec culture
- Flytrippers → 10 coups de coeur en tant que résidente de Paris: découvrir (ou redécouvrir) la Ville Lumière
Why this blog?
Our mission is to give concrete advice to families who love to travel and the outdoors and to break the idea that adventures stop when you have children.
We specialize in road trips and outdoor adventures with kids. We provide tips, detailed itineraries, destination guides and hope to inspire YOU to try new family adventures.
Love Life Abroad: How It All Started
It all started with a book.
In the summer 2019, I (Emilie) sat down and started to read the book “Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have One”. As cliché as it may sound, this book resonated with Nathan and with me. We had it all, we had our American dream, but a little something was missing.
We were missing outdoor adventures, travel and family time.
Some may say we are intense a little, but we did what we thought was best for our family: we sold it all to travel to the world. But then… covid happened. We changed our plans and started a long road trip across Canada and Western USA.
Our full-time travelling adventure wasn’t all instagramy… far from it. Whining, crisis, doubts, fights. We experienced it all. But we would do it again in a heartbeat because it brought us closer as a family, we visited beautiful places, we learned so much.
Here we are 3 years later, trying to hike every weekend, planning road trips (far & near), and hoping to inspire other families to do the same.
Where We’ve Been Featured
CBC – How to plan a really great road trip this year (February 17, 2022)
Work with us
→ Check our media kit and portfolio here.
As adventure travelers and content creators, we love working with brands that align with our vision: family-oriented, close to nature, and accessible for most families.
We worked with brands on blog post creation, giveaways, and social campaigns. We also coached a few brands on SEO and email marketing. We work both in English and French.