LathropsGoneAWOL family trip to Sevilla Spain

ABOUT US & OUR FAMILY TRAVEL

How We Got Here

Hi! We’re the Lathrop family, and a few years ago, we went A.W.O.L. and started traveling the world! 😜 To capture all our fun new memories of traveling with kids, we started a little family travel blog- leading us to create this website!

This all started after a life-changing event in 2016… After almost dying while pregnant with our youngest, we decided it was time to sell our home and move out of the US- from Florida (USA) to Valencia, Spain! Since then, we’ve been trying to see as much of the world as possible. It hasn’t always been easy, considering we’re dragging 5 pairs of little feet along for the journey, but it’s been worth every second!

We have 4 girls and a boy and started traveling internationally when our youngest was just over a year old, but now our oldest is almost 24 and our youngest is 9! So, you could say we’ve learned a LOT about family travel on a budget. (And I’m so happy to be able to share what we’ve learned with our readers over these past few years!)

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PLANNING MAKES PERFECT

Plan your next family travel adventure with a bit less stress.

Looking for family travel ideas, trip planning tools, or tips for traveling with kids? You’ll find them all in our FREE resource library- plus plenty of destination-specific guides and family travel tips in our blog posts!

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11+

Countries visited so far

50+

50+ cities explored (with kids in tow!) and still going strong

4256

Cups of coffee needed to make it all happen

LathropsGoneAWOL family trip to Sevilla Spain

Traveling with kids from babies up through the angsty teen years has brought us plenty of different challenges. We hope to share what we’ve learned with our readers!

My husband and I also run our own online business. Working remotely allows for a lot of flexibility, which is great! Unfortunately, it also adds a bit to the chaos and messiness of our daily lives, but hey- that’s life, right?

We’ve learned how to REALLY get organized- from budgeting and trip planning to packing and prep! Being organized is a key part of making family travel as smooth as possible, but we weren’t always so organized and put together! We had to learn on the fly- sometimes quite literally! 😅

I hope that you find lots of value from sharing our adventures along with us- and get lots of fun family travel ideas and inspiration here!

We’ve filled this blog full of tips we’ve learned during our family travels, and hope they help make things easier for YOUR family, too! Thank you so much for reading!

Work With Us!

We love working with travel companies, brands, hotels, lodging companies, transportation companies, tourism boards, and more!

  • Product Reviews
  • Destination Reviews
  • Destination Marketing
  • Sponsored Blog Posts
  • Sponsored Social Media Posts
  • Custom Travel Itineraries
  • & so much more!
  • We have a genuine, responsive social media following with 2,000+ Instagram followers, 1600+ monthly blog readers, and more.
  • We value research and SEO- each content piece is carefully crafted.
  • We are very detailed, goal-oriented, and reliable with deadlines.
  • We love adventure and are always exploring new things and ideas!

You can reach us anytime via email at contact@lathropsgoneawol.com. Please feel free to request a media kit or pitch us your collaboration ideas! We look forward to working with you!

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Meet Our Writers.

Learn about the awesome Lathrop family members who contribute posts on our travel blog!

Jessica Lathrop

Lead Writer, Editor, Lead Marketer
Jessica is the mom of our wild bunch and the lead writer, editor and marketer for our family travel blog.

Larry Lathrop

Writer, Researcher
Larry is a dad extraordinaire and the is the data-driven force behind our family travel adventures.

Gracee Lathrop

Writer-In-Training
Gracee is the second oldest child in the Lathrop family. She loves writing almost as much as she loves animals.