Welcome to Love Life Abroad: Your Ultimate Guide for Family Road Trips.
At Love Life Abroad, we’re passionate about turning family road trips into unforgettable adventures. Our expertise in crafting the perfect adventure for your family is unmatched.
Whether you’re seeking inspiration or need a detailed plan, we’ve got you covered.
📍 Discover Canada, the USA and beyond with us!
Discover Our Exclusive Road Trip Itineraries
Detailed Itineraries
Dive into our meticulously crafted road trip itineraries. Each itinerary is packed with family-friendly activities, must-visit spots, and hidden gems, ensuring your trip is enjoyable and hassle-free. And the best part? We’ve tested them all with our kids. Read More.
Printables & Destination Guides
Step into a world of seamless travel planning with our comprehensive Printables & Guides. Perfect for keeping the whole family entertained and informed, our guides ensure a smooth, enjoyable journey.
Personalized Itineraries
Looking for something tailor-made? Our personalized itinerary service is here to cater to your family’s unique interests and needs. Share your preferences with us, and we’ll create a custom road trip plan that ticks all your boxes. Read More.
Get Inspired
Our blog is filled with tips, tricks, and inspirational content to fuel your family’s road trip dreams. We love road-tripping with our kids and we’re here to give you all of our tips and inspiration for epic road trips. Not only will you find great tips to plan screen-free road trips, but we’ve prepared (and tested) unique and detailed itineraries for families.
You’ll find great destination inspiration and outdoor activities, including lots of kid-friendly hikes, camping tips, and many other fun family trip ideas.
Our goal is to provide concrete tips for planning epic outdoor adventures with your family. You’ll find many articles to help plan your road trips, camping trips and hiking days with the little ones. We list our proven (and tested tips), we give some product reviews and you’ll also find some printable checklists.
Our Most Recent Articles
- Epic Stops on Icefields Parkway: You Won’t Believe It’s Canada
- 10-Day Banff to Glacier National Park Itinerary Road Trip
- GigSky Review: International SIM Card for Travel
- How Long Does it Take to Drive Across Canada (+ Itineraries)
- Invermere (and Area) Winter Activities Weekend Itinerary
- 12 Family Getaways in Alberta You Must Take
- 17 Exciting Things to Do in Northern Ontario with the Family
- The ULTIMATE Northern Ontario Road Trip for Outdoor Lovers
- Is Go City Legit? An Honest Go City Review
- Lynx Air Review: The Affordable Choice for Adventurous Families
And if you are planning a Canada cross-country road trip, you’ll want to check out the guide I created to help families plan their LONG road trip across Canada.
Meet Emilie, the voice behind Love Life Abroad
Emilie is the founder of Love Life Abroad. She’s a born wanderer. From an early age, she wanted to be on the move. Whether searching for a condo in California (at age 16) or flying to Ireland to see musician Damien Rice, she’s always looked for any excuse to pack a bag and explore.
Now, she has two boys, who are planning epic road trips and adventures as much as possible. Emilie helps families with young children to plan unique road trips and outdoor adventures because who said adventuring had to stop once we have kids?
Why Love Life Abroad
As you can see, our name, Love Life Abroad, doesn’t 100% reflect what we share. But there is a reason for that. I started this website as a way to document our family trip around the world. Sadly, our trip never happened. We traded our suitcases for a long road trip across Canada and Western USA. After those EPIC adventures, we pivoted and dived into family road trips and outdoor adventures!
TRAVEL & ROAD TRIP RESOURCES
After traveling to more than 25 countries (with and without the kids) and living in three countries, we’ve become experts in travel resources. We’ve tested many travel products and online websites to help you plan your perfect family trip.
Check out our travel and road trip resource center.
How to Book a Car or Campervan
DiscoverCars – DiscoverCars is a reliable car rental comparison platform, making it easy for families to find and book the perfect vehicle for their travels. By partnering with both major and local car rental providers, the platform offers a wide selection of vehicles at competitive prices.
▶️ You can read our DiscoverCars review here!
Outdoorsy – Outdoorsy is a popular peer-to-peer RV rental platform, connecting families with a variety of recreational vehicles, campervans, and travel trailers for their outdoor adventures. Offering a user-friendly experience and secure booking process, Outdoorsy makes it simple to find the perfect home-on-wheels for your family’s needs.
RVezy – RVezy is one of the largest and safest RV rental marketplace in North America, especially in Canada. With an extensive range of RVs, motorhomes, and travel trailers available, the platform ensures that users are covered with a $2M insurance, 24/7 roadside assistance, and personal bilingual support. RVezy offers a seamless and secure booking experience.
▶️ You can read our comparison review on Outdoorsy and RVezy here!
Escape Campervans – Escape Campervans offers custom-built, fully-equipped campervans, adorned with hand-painted exterior artwork by top artists from Los Angeles. It allows travelers to explore the vast terrains of the US and Canada without compromising on the comforts of home. These campervans come with features like a queen-sized bed, a 2-burner propane stove, dual-powered refrigerator, and more.
▶️ You can read our Escape Campervans review here!
How to Book Unique Tours
Viator – Viator is a platform where you can book tours, attractions, and experiences at your travel destination. Viator makes it easy for families to find activities that everyone will enjoy, regardless of age or preferences, with an extensive selection of options, from city sightseeing tours to outdoor adventures and cultural experiences.
Get Your Guide – Get Your Guide is a great alternative to Viator where you can book unique tours, attractions, and experiences at your travel destination. This platform specializes in connecting travelers with local guides and experts, ensuring an authentic and memorable experience.
Orlando Vacation – Orlandovacation.com is a dedicated resource for families planning a trip to Orlando, Florida. It’s a family-run business that offers competitive prices for theme park tickets, vacation packages, and accommodations. They make sure to provide the best prices available in the market and only require a $50 deposit to reserve your lodging reservation.
Our Favourite Travel Apps for Families
GoWhee – GoWhee is a crowdsourced app to help parents find kid-friendly locations across the globe. From playgrounds to hikes and kid-friendly lodging, traveling families add and review all locations. We are, in fact, ambassadors for the GoWhee app, so you can find many of the fun places we’ve been to on the app.
GuideAlong – GuideAlong (or originally Gypsy Guides) offers self-guided tours with informative, location-based audio commentary. The app uses GPS technology to automatically trigger engaging narratives about the area’s history, culture, and hidden gems as you explore your destination.
RoadTrippers – RoadTripppers is a road trip planning tool. It shows unique content and wonderful “off the beaten path” places to visit. You can use the app to map out your road trip and even share it with friends. Use this link to get $5.00 off your Pro membership.