Why Having Kids Made Us Travel More, Not Less with Joe O’Connor, Co-Founder at GFHR (Global Family Home Rentals)

What if having kids didn’t mean traveling less?In this episode of Risky Routes, I sit down with Joe O’Connor, co-founder of Global Family Home Rentals, who packed up his life in Buffalo in 2022 and moved to Portugal with his wife and three-year-old daughter. What started as a leap into location-independent family life turned into more than four years of slow travel across Europe and beyond.We talk about raising kids across different cultures, the challenges of building community on the road, and why Joe and his wife think about life in seasons rather than permanent decisions. We also get into how their experience helping hundreds of traveling families led them to launch Global Family Home Rentals, an invite-only community built specifically for families who want to live and travel differently.In this episode:Why they moved to Portugal with a three-year-oldHow travel has shaped their daughterThe realities of slow travel as a familyWhy nothing has to be permanentTurning a personal travel problem into a businessBuilding community wherever you are