Through the Eyes of the Traveling Child – World Travel Family Kids (Boo and D)

1. Provide us with a little background on who you are, where you are originally from, name, age and what you are doing with your family, any siblings?

• We have always traveled as far and as wide as possible but 12 months ago we left home in Australia to start a full-time travel lifestyle. Our first year of nomadic family travel is now complete, 4 continents, 12 countries and an incredible year. Now we’re travelling really slow for the summer and through to January next year. We’re stopping a while in London while making shorter trips and making the most of everything the UK’s capital has to offer.
• We are Boo (7 years old) and D (10 years old). We were both born in London and moved to Australia when we were 1 and 3 respectively.

2. Where do you call home?

• Boo – Everywhere.
  
• D – Everywhere, and Australia and London. It depends what hotel we’re in.

2. What do you like most about traveling?

• Boo – All the stuff you see on the way.
• D – We see new countries and it’s lots of fun. We get to explore, it’s just fun. We do lots of exciting things and go to exotic places. 5 star hotels and cruise ships are the best fun.
  

4. How long have you been traveling and where have you lived so far?

• Boo – I have lived in lots of places, Thailand, Laos, Australia, London. I am English.
• D – We have been travelling for 12 months. All the countries we have been to so far on this trip are Laos, Thailand Malaysia, Sri Lanka, UK, Canada, USA, Guatemala and El Salvador , but we have been to lots more. In Malaysia we stayed in Back Home hostel, in Laos we stayed in the middle of the river, which sometimes got flooded..We lived in Australia and Britain in our own houses. When we’re travelling we don’t live anywhere..

5. What have you learned from your travels thus far?

• Boo – Nothing and maths, I like counting money. I don’t know.
• D – Lots of interesting things, it would take about 3 years to get through everything. And I’ve learnt to always have fun.

6. Tell us about how you are receiving your education?
   • Boo – My mum! I hate school.
   • D – My mum homeschools us.. We learn about interesting foods every day. My favourite food was Tom Kha Gai on Ko Phangan in Thailand. We read, I’ve read the Hobbit and The Old Man of The Sea. We talk about things and we watch documentaries, we watched one yesterday about The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, it was very interesting. I liked the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. I learn a lot about money because we have pocket-money every day. We have 10 Baht in Thailand. In Laos we had 2,000 Kip. Travelling around we learn lots of new things. I never want to go to school.
     

7. How many languages can you speak and at what level? Was it difficult to learn? 

• Boo – English and a bit of Spanish and French. 
• D – English and a few words in Thai, Laos, French and Spanish.

8. Do you have many friends?  Tell us about them.  

• Boo – Tristan was my friend at home, he was like me, noisy and runny. He was homeschooled too, he was American, from Texas. 
• D – I miss Jackson, he was my friend at home. We travel so we don’t have time to make real friends just friends for a little while. We met lots of people on cruise ships and we’ve met some new kids in London.

9. What is your favorite adventure? 

• Boo – Disney in Florida, the Rock and Rollercoaster and the Tower of Terror. 
• D – Snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef and kayaking and tubing on the Nam Song river in Laos. We’ve been to loads of theme parks. I can’t pick 1 favourite, I loved air boating on the Everglades and seeing blue whales.

10. Do you have a favorite game you play when you travel?

• Boo – Top Trumps and Uno
• D – Not really.
  

11. Is there anything you miss seeing, having, doing? 

• Boo – Ho, my cat 
• D – I miss my Star Wars At-At walker and video games.

12. What is the one thing you are happy you brought with you? 

• Boo – My bear, Boo bear.
• D – My clothes. I don’t want to be nude travel family.

13. Where do you want to go next?

• Boo – Paris and the pyramids. 
• D – The moon, the pyramids and my cousin in Africa.
  

14. Do you have your own blog or write about your experiences? 

• Boo. I have a blog it’s called Boy Around the World and I love it.
• D. Yes, it’s called World Food Kid, I love finding out about new foods.

We don’t often get exposed to the opinion of the kids and perhaps think we should.  We all know the Wagoner kids are full of their two cents worth and are loving travel.   If you would like to read other interviews in our Traveling Child Series, just click the image below.

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