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Xplor and Xavage – Family Adventure Parks in the Riviera Maya

Our family has been big on adventure since forever. We love that the adventures bring us closer together and that they push us in some way physically and mentally. Recently, a solo mama trip took me to the Riviera Maya to check out two adventure parks for families called Xplor and Xavage. Both adventure parks…

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Type 2 Fun: Back Country Camping with Kids

For us, back country camping with kids was the perfect description of type 2 fun. Type 2 fun is when an activity is extremely challenging and hard, but you also have some beautiful rewards as well.

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Family Van Life Budget: The cost of living 3 months on the road!

It feels like only yesterday we were living the dream life traveling around in Dusty our 1993 VW Eurovan. The trip that ended in December brought our family closer together as we explored 3 provinces and 6 States over 3 months. As promised in the blog post “Finding Money for a Family Van Life Trip”, …

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Van Life Family: Lost in the Dark

We are back on the road! The momentary thoughts of abandoning our Van trip are completely washed away. I am currently relaxing in my camp chair looking out on the red sandy cliffs of BLM land (free camping) near Zion National Park. The sky is completely blue as the sun is beating on my shoulders…

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Something else has broken – Adventures in our VW Van

The tragedy happened about a month ago just before we went away camping for the weekend.  I went to grab some food out of our fridge in  Dusty our VW Van and noticed that the food was hardly cold.  I headed to the buttons overtop of our windshield to turn the fridge on and realized…

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Finding the Money for a Family Van life Trip

Its official. We are taking the plunge and heading on a family van life trip! I wish I could say it was going to be a completely calm ride into the sunset. I am pretty sure living in a small 88 square ft space with two children aged 3 and 4 is going to be…

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The Amazing Surfing Baby Kingston (Video)

Kingston Buchhagen is a surfing baby and started hitting the waves at only 6 months old! Now a toddler, he is surfing some epic waves with his mom. His favourite waves to ride are those in warm water and he loves to high five other surfers while catching a wave. Check out the video below…

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Roadtripping with 3 young children: 5 Family West Coast Destinations

Some parents are horrified when they think of travelling long distances in a car with young children. Add in that you are not going to use any technology and many families would say that is impossible. Well Rachel and Andrew Machnee do not and have been on multiple family roadtrips with their 3 young children.…

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The Realities of Adventuring with a Toddler: A Mom’s How-To Guide

Remember me? I’m the mom who packed up her 5 month old and headed out on a backcountry fishing trip in northern Canada with my husband in the post “A Floatplane, A boat and a Baby”.    I also said something to the effect of we wanted to take the attitude that ‘this baby was joining…

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5 Family Friendly Surf Destinations

So you want to take your family on a surfing adventure?   The most important decision you must make – even more important than how many diapers and boards to bring – is where to go?   Many surfers seek desolation, gnarly waves and places that don’t necessarily have a lot going on culturally.  Basically,…

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Annika Mang is the Founder and writer at BorntobeAdventurous.com . She is a mother of two adventurous toddlers. With a Bachelor degrees in Physical Education and Education, it is her mission to show families just how easy, fun and healthy it is to spend time outdoors. You can usually find her and her family in the Canadian Rockies where they love to camp, hike and snowboard.

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