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The Great Wanderlust

The Great Wanderlust

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TGW is a place to find inspiration + connection for diving deeper in travel + life. We celebrate and see beauty in diversity, rather than fearing it. We travel.

On Wed/Fri meet inspiring women who are living out their own great wanderlust + Explore destinations to add to your family adventure bucket-list! This movement feeds on loving others through listening, learning and understanding different ways of life and seeking to understand the human experience across different cultures. We explore. We take risks. We learn. We tell stories - both our own and others. We hope you’ll come along with us.

Photos from The Great Wanderlust's post 03/06/2026

Books have changed my life📚🙌

If it wasn’t for being able to access new ideas and uncover personal growth through books over the last ten years, my life would be drastically different. I’m so grateful for the gift of being able to read and having free, uninhibited access to books of all kinds (and to for agreeing that books live outside the budget😉)

In my opinion, passing on a love for books and seeing them as a way to access a whole world of understanding and enlightenment is the greatest thing I could possibly pass on to our kids. And I’m pretty confident that their passion for reading is partially due to witnessing and I’s obsession with books throughout their life (along with read-alouds of course)💙

Anyway, would love to hear your top favorite books if you wouldn’t mind dropping them in the comments! I could talk about this stuff all day long….

02/02/2026

I believe so fully in seeking freedom in life from social constructs, systems that suppress us, fabricated timelines ingrained in us from early on, limiting beliefs about what we’re capable of and what our life can look like✨

Having risked so much over the last few years to keep moving toward a life that feels aligned to us, having prayed for and manifested a new reality of our lifestyle and to be living in that everyday, still looking around in awe wondering how I really get to live this life. What I still cannot reconcile is this…

🤨why I was born into a life where these possibilities exist, when so many others are fighting just to survive and feel safe?

→ What about the kids who are being taken from their parents?
→ What about the abused and neglected kids?
→ What about the parents who work so hard but still can’t quite put food on the table?
→ What about the moms who lay awake, wondering if they’ll make it through the night?
etc etc etc

How can we all be living on the same planet?🌎 And why me? Why do I get to be one to have so much privilege? And how can I go through life achieving goals, living safely, giving my kids an education and adventures and safety…when so many will never have that?

😐I just can’t reconcile it all in my head…that freedom is both real, and radically unequal.

I hate that it feels like existence hands out circumstances randomly, but so many in society pretend the outcomes are deserved.

I suspect I may never be able to answer the “why me,” so I wrestle with this question instead…

➡️“Given that I am here—awake, resourced, and free—what is asked of me?”

Do you relate to this too? I know so many of us are feeling it, but we don’t know what to do. It’s a much bigger question than can be fully explored in one instagram post…but here are some questions I’m starting with and thought might be helpful to you too…

→ What access do I have that others don’t?
→ What rooms do I get invited into?
→ What stories do I know how to tell?
→ What risks can I take to help others because I have safety?

This is just a start….

Would love to hear from you if you’re feeling this too

Photos from The Great Wanderlust's post 01/30/2026

Do you ever go down the rabbit hole of your own social media posts?🤪

The other day, I stumbled onto an old account that I don’t post on any more, and it quickly sucked me in. The nostalgia was palpable and I got all weepy seeing the kids look so small😭

But also, it was so interesting to read my thoughts on where we were as a family at that time. It was early summer of 2020, and the kids had been home from school for several weeks. God was already working on me to start our homeschooling journey, and I didn’t even realize it yet lol. Here’s a little bit of what I wrote…

“I have found myself happier and more at ease than I’ve ever been before.

I’ve been worried + scared watching what’s happening to people around the world. But just speaking personally, I have shocked myself even at how much I’ve loved and cherished this time. The kids have been so happy, and I have uncovered a LOT of realizations about myself and what I want for our family and future. I can’t even say that without tearing up😢

I’ve found myself feeling stressed/anxious about this ending and things going back to normal...I don’t want to lose this easy, happy pace our family has found. I don’t want to go back to our old schedule + life. I do t want normal anymore.

But the last couple of days, I’ve really been thinking on the fact that it IS in my control...at least to some degree.

As a mom I have let myself give into the pressure to say yes for too long already. It’s not easy to go against the grain. It’s scary. But now that I’ve seen how drastically our family dynamic and our life can change, I realize how incredibly worth it it is to LISTEN to my gut and actually make decisions based on what it’s telling me. Why is that so hard sometimes?!””

Reading that now, it’s so cool to see my thoughts and feelings in real time as God started nudging us to start our homeschool journey, and we didn’t even realize it. I’m so grateful I was open to new ideas and let myself be curious to explore what it would look like to take a risk + change things up in our life, no matter how terrifying it felt.

Have you ever felt a nudge to change something in your life? Did you listen?

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