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Far from their routines. Closer to each other.
Far beyond the guidebook. Closer to the world.
Far from fear. Closer to belonging.
Far from the tourist trail. Closer to the people who live it.
You've already tried
You've done the research. That's the problem.
You've saved the reels. Read the TripAdvisor threads. Asked the AI for a two-week itinerary and gotten back the same twelve restaurants every other family will line up for that week.
It's not that the information is wrong. It's that none of it knows your kids. None of it can tell you which cooking class is worth rearranging a whole day for, or why the goat farmer two towns over will matter more to your ten-year-old than the famous ruins ever could.
That part is hard to find. That's the part worth going looking for.
"I want it to feel like we found it, not like we were sold it."
What you'll get
Roots & Routes, twice a month.
No archive to catch up on. No categories to browse. Each issue is short and built around one thing: a single place, one experience worth planning a day around, and a few honest words on why it lands with kids.
Issue No. 24 · Oaxaca, MexicoThe experience
The carver who lets kids ruin the first one
In a workshop outside the city, a third-generation alebrije carver named Jacobo hands every kid a block of copal wood and a small knife and tells them, cheerfully, that the first one is supposed to be terrible. An hour later they've stopped asking for the wifi password.
Why it matters
Kids don't remember the things they're shown. They remember the things they're trusted to make a mess of.
A real excerpt from a recent issue.
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Who's writing
Hi, I'm Natasha.
I'm a mom in Calgary with two kids who are, at this exact moment, probably arguing about something. I'm not a travel expert, and I'd never claim to be. I'm a parent who got a little obsessed with finding the real version of every place we visit and started writing it down.
Roots & Routes is me, discovering alongside you.