Best Travel Blogs of 2025 For Families and Digital Nomads
Need a dose of wanderlust or a practical roadmap for your next adventure? Whether you’re deep in the family travel trenches or plotting your digital nomad escape, these are the travel blogs we’re turning to in 2025. From slow-travel parents and budget-savvy backpackers to full-time globe-trotting couples, each voice here offers honest takes, brilliant tips, and plenty of misadventures along the way.
Save this list, these are the creators reshaping how we travel with kids, with purpose, and with a bit of chaos in tow.
Let’s be honest: searching “best travel blogs” these days can feel like falling into an internet black hole. Do you want pretty photos? Budget hacks? Tips for traveling with kids? Stories that don’t feel like a brand pitch?
This list is for real people planning real adventures, whether that’s a slow-travel gap year with kids, a digital nomad experiment, or your first big trip with a backpack and a budget.
We’ve rounded up the most useful, inspiring, and consistently updated travel blogs we genuinely return to, the ones with smart tools, honest advice, and a human voice. Some are big names, others are low-key legends. All are worth your time.
The All-Rounders (Budget, Planning & Real Talk)
These blogs are the full package, detailed guides, personal stories, money-saving strategies, and a grounded take on what long-term travel is really like.
These blogs have been around for a while and consistently shown up, we all know the many stopped travelling now blogs thats a baren wasteland…these are not them.
Nomadic Matt
The OG of budget travel, Matt’s site is still one of the best for planning long-term travel, especially if you’re looking for destination guides, travel deals, and practical tips that don’t assume unlimited funds.
Goats on the Road
Run by Canadian couple Nick and Dariece, this blog blends digital nomad life, house-sitting, and travel income strategies. Great for families or couples looking to create a sustainable long-term travel lifestyle.
The Broke Backpacker
Will’s voice is bold, raw, and unfiltered. This site is packed with hardcore budget travel advice, adventure routes, and gear tips, especially useful if you’re leaning toward offbeat or ultra-cheap destinations. he also has a powerhouse of a team for this site.
Expert Vagabond
Matt Karsten combines high-quality visuals with genuinely helpful long-form content. From vanlife to drone gear, this blog bridges adventure and practicality.
Adventurous Kate
Kate focuses on solo female travel, but her deep-dive destination content and mindset pieces are relevant to anyone thinking about life on the move.
Best Family Travel Blogs of 2025
Travelling with kids is a whole different beast, from packing chaos and school-on-the-go to managing meltdowns on long layovers. These family-focused blogs share the realities of long-term travel with little (and not-so-little) humans in tow. They’re equal parts inspiring and practical and we’ve leaned on them plenty in our own planning.
TraveLynn Family
Based in the UK and only a few miles away from my home base, Jenny and her crew focus on overland family travel and slow adventures. Their blog includes destination guides, homeschooling tips, and honest takes on travel with neurodiverse kids.
5 Lost Together
This Canadian family shares everything from round-the-world prep to house swaps, family volunteering, and long-term budgeting. Their tone is grounded, and their spreadsheets are next level.
Meet the Arshads
A digital nomad family balancing remote work, unschooling, and life across continents. Their blog and Instagram are a mix of beautiful moments and “okay, here’s what actually happened” honesty.
The Family Voyage
These LA-based worldschoolers combine solid logistics (car seats, legal stuff, gear reviews) with destination deep dives. They’re big on family road trips and travel tech, great for new planners.
Digital Nomad & Remote Work Travel Blogs
For those building income streams on the road — whether freelancing, consulting, or running a business from a hammock, these blogs are gold. They go beyond the glossy Instagram version of nomad life and dive into the tools, mindset, and realities of working while exploring.
Nomad Numbers
This analytical duo breaks down everything from global cost-of-living comparisons to remote work tools and slow travel strategy. It’s data-rich and minimalist, with serious planning value.
Digital Nomad Mom
Lena is a German mom raising her family while working remotely, and her posts are a refreshing mix of work-life balance, worldschooling, and logistical advice for digital nomad families.
The Professional Hobo
Nora Dunn has been living and working on the road since 2006. Her content blends travel finance, safety tips, and solo nomad wisdom with years of perspective.
Travelling Jackie (Jump Adventures)
Jackie’s site is a blend of audio storytelling (via her podcast) and physical adventures. She covers remote work life, group travel hosting, and long-term planning with high energy and transparency. She is really a true inspiration of what consistency, effort and dreaming big can achieve. (Can can also speak 5 languages!!)
Offbeat & Alternative Travel Voices
Some blogs don’t fit neatly into “budget” or “family” or “nomad” boxes, and that’s what makes them so good. These are the sites we go to when we want to feel something bigger behind the journey: long reads, strange routes, and honest reflections on what travel does to us (and for us).
Against the Compass
Joan Torres digs into places most travellers skip, think Iraq, Pakistan, or remote corners of Central Asia. If you’re craving stories from the fringes with detailed how-tos, this one’s for you.
Uncornered Market
Dan and Audrey’s blog is equal parts thoughtful and tactical. They’ve been traveling slow for over 15 years, blending sustainability, culture, and deep-dive narrative storytelling.
Anna Everywhere
Anna Karsten’s site fuses travel lifestyle, fashion, and destination tips, but what sets it apart is the mix of luxury, long-term experience, and personal perspective from living on multiple continents.
Ones to Watch in 2025
TravelventureFour
Yep, that’s us. We’re a slightly overwhelmed UK-based family of four prepping for a slow-travel year across South America. Expect honest budget breakdowns, worldschool experiments, gear wins (and fails), and behind-the-scenes chaos you’ll actually relate to.
How We Chose These Blogs
We didn’t just google “top travel blogs” and list the first ten. This list is curated based on:
Usefulness — Blogs with actual tips, not just pretty pictures.
Consistency — Sites updated in the last 6–12 months, not ghost towns.
Voice — Writers who are honest, grounded, and not selling a fantasy.
Diversity of Experience — Solo, family, budget, nomadic, unconventional, all welcome.
Whether you’re dreaming, planning, or already out there, we wanted to highlight blogs that will actually help you keep going.
Save These Blogs. You’ll Need Them.
The right blog at the right time can change your trip or even your life. Whether you’re searching for school hacks in Colombia, figuring out how to house-sit with a toddler, or just wondering how people afford this, these writers have been there.
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