Meghan co-founded a travel program with her travel bestie and fellow unschooler in the early Spring of 2023- ROAM is designed for families who want to expand their teens’ empathy and understanding of diversity by engaging with other cultures and learning about other customs through travel.

for the first ROAM trip, Teens ages 13–17 and their parent partner will travel in a collective of self-directed learners, alongside 2 guides with lifelong and grown unschoolers of their own.

Who are Sara & Meghan?

We will be your Queer-affirming guides with 30 years combined experience in SDE and Group Organizing. We are parents who have lived in partnership with their teens and grown children and want to share that partnership and guidance with yours!

Our role in this program would be to create an extension of that partnership your teen has experienced with you, and promote the deeper skills of empathy gained when engaged in world travel and community building. We believe that there is a significant element of learning involved with healthy risk taking at appropriate age levels.

Folks who might be a good fit

• Approach parenting in a way that views their relationship with their teen as a partnership.

• Homeschoolers and unschoolers that have attempted to prioritize a de-colonized environment for learning.

• Queer teens looking for adventure with a group that will be affirming and supportive.

• Teens who are looking to grow skills that they don’t have access to in their direct community.

• Teens who want to explore ways to find community wherever they go!

• Teens who desire making connections with others who care deeply about issues that impact humanity and the environment.

• Teens that are looking to TAKE BACK some opportunities the pandemic years have interfered with.

• Teens that are a little nervous about travel and want to stretch and expand their exposure to new experiences with people who will respect their boundaries around trying new things.

Head to ROAMtravelcollective.com to see where we’ve ROAMed or if you’re thinking of ROAMing with us!

Barcelona, Spain

October 4–14, 2023
This trip was amazing!

check our our Instagram for clips

For our first trip, we invited teen/parent duos (or trios, for our families with more than one teen) to join us.

We chose to do this for several reasons — this was our pilot trip! We wanted an element of comfort and safety for all participating families as we ROAM foreign soil with new people!

As we emerged from the pandemic, we realized some teens were not quite ready to head out all alone just yet (and some are). This gave teens a chance to step into some new and uncomfortable territory with a little more comfort and support nearby. We stayed in a communal house, and worked together on everything from food prep and cleanup to our plans for the day and what to sing on karaoke night!

What does roam offer?

Community, culture and cuisine!

Our inaugural journey came from the understanding that the pandemic had taken a significant amount of time, experiences, and growth alongside peers, and that is particularly challenging as for teenagers.

We have decided to offer Parent / Teen trips (and other trips) to expand their perspectives of the world and our place in it.

We work together to live in a community house, explore new surroundings and language, experience group decision making, adventure and build lasting memories and new relationships We support healthy risk taking and adventure while we ROAM!

FAQs

  • Shared house in beautiful Barcelona, Spain!

  • October 4–14th, 2023

  • $2,450 per parent/teen duo & $1000 for each additional teen sibling.
    Trip deposits are $1000 and non refundable

  • We are working very hard to keep costs low by planning in advance, using group deals and passes and booking our accommodations early.

    We are traveling as a group of parent/teen duos (or trios) and much of the program is co-created and parents will be helping to facilitate. In the future, we will not always have parents present on trips and depending on the trip, cost to manage and facilitate may be very different.

  • • all breakfasts
    • 2-3 communal dinners
    • 1 group excursion
    • few outings
    • travel swag

  • • food & snack purchases
    • dining out
    • independent outings
    • personal shopping

  • We will all book flights on our own. Some people may even travel beyond these dates! We will arrange airport shuttle service to our shared rental once your flight lands.

  • 6–8 teens will be on this trip, depending on the families who apply. Due to the nature of short term rental houses in both the city AND just outside the city, we can have 16–18 people (maximum) housed together.

  • • A non-refundable lodging deposit of $1,000 is due no later than June 1, 2023.
    • The remainder can be paid all at once or we can work out a payment plan for up to three payments, all due by September 1, 2023.

  • We may do a parent-teen trip again, if the first time inspires us to so! We also have other trip and experiences up our sleeves down the line, including teen trips, full family programs and a parent retreat.
    Check back for Spring 2024 dates and details often!