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Garrett and jessica gee age3/10/2024 ![]() “I had seen ‘Hotel Rwanda’ and that’s all I knew,” she says. Gee was also incredibly impressed by East African country Rwanda, a destination that she was apprehensive about visiting due to preconceived notions. But I took my two-year-old there and he had a blast.” “It’s great for kids who are maybe a little bit older – five and up. “You have the fishing, the wildlife, the whales and the bears,” she says. She also recommends “incredible” Alaska for those seeking outdoor adventures for their children. Gee lists Belize among her top “family-friendly” destinations, describing the Central American country as a good “starter destination” for US-based families who aren’t ready to venture too far afield. The family went on to visit dozens of countries across the world, including Germany, Morocco, Japan, Brazil, Guatemala and Dominica. “The little bit of traveling turned into three years full-time,” adds Gee, who has just released a travel guidebook, The Bucket List Family Travel, in partnership with National Geographic. They had initially planned to spend a few months traveling, visiting Thailand, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia, as well as Pacific islands Fiji and Tonga, but after briefly returning to the US, they decided that they wanted to keep going. “Now I just do it with my own life.”Īfter putting the acquisition money into savings, they sold their furniture and most of their belongings, raising around $45,000, and headed off around the world with Dorothy and Manilla – Callihan was born while they were on the move – in August 2015. ![]() “Honestly, I do think we kind of had this perfect storm of Garrett’s creative skills, and my background in marketing,” Gee says, explaining that she studied product placement in college. They soon began planning an extended trip to Southeast Asia and decided to launch an Instagram page, The Bucket List Family, to collate their adventures. “We still felt so young and naive,” adds Gee. The couple, who’ve been married since 2009, were keen to experience different cultures and “just learn a little bit.” So we decided that we were going to set that all aside, and see what’s out in the world.” “We were sitting on some new wealth, and we didn’t know what to do. “We were in a weird situation that maybe not a lot of twenty-something-year-olds are put in,” Gee admits. But the more I get out there, the more I want to see.”Īccording to Gee, everything changed when her husband, who she first met while on a church service mission in Vladivostok, Russia, sold his app to Snapchat for $54 million in 2014 and decided to quit his desk job. “I never had the thought in my brain that ‘I want to travel around the world,’” Gee, from Denver, Colorado, tells CNN Travel. However, over the past eight years, the travel influencer, known as “The Bucket List Mom,” has visited more than 90 different countries with her entrepreneur husband Garrett and their three children Dorothy, Manilla and Calihan. Aside from a one-off trip to Europe, the furthest Jessica Gee ever traveled while growing up was to Walt Disney World in Florida with her family.
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