![]() But, now I have the best title of all, I’m Dorothy, Manilla, and Calihan’s dad.īefore we began our Bucket List adventures, I was a attending school at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Hey, I'm Garrett :) I used to be called Captain of my soccer team. Thank you for being an important part of our story. We gratefully remind ourselves on the daily and continue to humbly work hard and remember, it all started by making the decision to step outside our comfort zones, step way outside the norms of society, and follow our hearts for what we felt would be the best path for our family. It will be a difficult challenge but we’re ready to take it on! Really, we understand how unique and AMAZING this opportunity is to take on the adventures of life TOGETHER as family. It will be an interesting challenge to find a balance between home life and continuing our travels and work as Family Travel Journalists around the world. It’s a special place where our family can continue to explore, be healthy, and grow old together ) This most definitely does NOT mean we will stop traveling, but now our family has a home base where we can be a part of the community, around close friends more often, and be more consistently involved in activities like soccer, gymnastics, surfing, and school. ![]() We renovated a little bungalow on the beach in Hawaii. We’re grateful to each of you for being a part of this journey and we hope you’ll keep with us as our little family and this big adventure continue to grow!ĮXCITED FOR THE FUTURE WHILE FOCUSING ON THE PRESENTĪfter 3 years living full-time on the road and visiting 65 different countries together, we finally found a place to call home. It was a difficult decision to reset our lives and sell everything but we’re grateful everyday that we took that chance and were brave. After we got married, Garrett sold his iPhone app to Snapchat and that brought us to a major decision point in our lives, “WHAT SHOULD WE DO NEXT?” I was studying Advertising and Garrett was “studying” on the soccer team while building an iPhone app. We briefly crossed paths in a small flower shop, but didn’t start dating until years later while attending the same university in Provo, Utah. We started an Instagram and a YouTube channel called, The Bucket List Family.Ģ009, Garrett and I initially met during service missions to Vladivostok, Russia. Why we’re a Stan: The Gee family created a community subscription service on their own platform instead of using a third-party system.Welcome! We are the Gee family, just your “average” family working from all around the world as Family Travel Journalists! Our story began on the 15th of August, 2015 when we decided to sell everything and leave home for a journey around the world together. #Stan #ContentEntrepreneur Click To Tweet hit the road, grew an online content business, and added a subscription service revenue stream. Today, the family makes a whopping $20.9K per Instagram post, and supporters can sign up for Bucket List Friends, a subscription service featuring monthly webcasts, travel exclusives, and other content. Parents Garret and Jessica Gee shared the reasons why they would uproot their family in their site’s original about page: “We were going to take the typical next step in life and ‘grow up’ and build a house and settle into careers … buuut how bout not! (sic) … We decided as a young family that now was the time to form healthy habits and create traditions that will hopefully shape us into better people the rest of our lives.”įor years, they’ve shared photos of this journey with their subscribers and recently purchased a bungalow on a beach in Hawaii, which they now call home.
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