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From tech entrepreneur to travel journalist: garrett gee and his ‘bucket list’.

Garrett and Miristi were joined by their mother Mel Gee Henderson for the final episode of “Discovering Routes.” 

Garrett Gee (center right) with his daughter Dorothy, wife Jessica, and son Manilla

In nearly three years, Garrett Gee and his wife Jessica have traveled to 45 countries and have been on over 150 flights with their two toddlers in tow, digitally documenting the adventures along the way as the “Bucket List Family.”

Their travels have been widely followed on platforms like YouTube and Instagram, as they’ve spent days in places such as Nepal, Greece, Indonesia, and Germany.

For Gee — a 28-year-old Utah-native who is Filipino from his mother’s side — a trip that continues to be memorable was in 2016 when the family was en route to Turkey as political unrest transpired.

“We were on the plane so we weren’t connected to the Internet and didn’t hear anything about  the unrest in the air. By the time we landed in Turkey, the U.S. government had put an alert, like evacuation warnings for Americans to get out of Turkey as soon as possible,” he told the  Asian Journal  in an interview. “There was no flight to get us out so we were stuck in Turkey for 24 hours during the evacuation. We were terrified and we didn’t sleep that night. Just going through something that scary and emotional really made us closer.”

However, the family ended up staying in Turkey for five days, during which they realized that the country “wasn’t a scary place” that the media had been portraying it as.

“When people ask us ‘who are some of the nicest people and cultures in the world?’ We have an ongoing list but number one for… the nicest, most affectionate and loving people in the world are the people of Turkey. So that was a big life lesson to us as a family, you can’t really judge people based on what you hear or what you hear in the media and the rumors. You have to find [out] and learn for yourself,” Gee said.

Lessons like this are what continue to drive the Bucket List Family and the invaluable real-life education that their young children are receiving, being exposed to different cultures and customs around the globe.

From tech to travel 

Gee and Jessica had met in Russia as missionaries serving the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and married in 2009 while both attending Bingham Young University (BYU) in Utah.

As a freshman at BYU, Gee founded Scan, a QR code-scanning mobile app. Four years later, the app was acquired by Snapchat in 2014 for $54 million.

“There are some weird thoughts that come into your mind when you sell your company, especially when it’s for a lot of money. There’s kind of a lot of soul-searching during that time,” Gee recalled, noting that he didn’t want to spend his earnings on material possessions like a house or car as young families were doing. “And one of the things that I realized, I had the fortune, opportunity and position for whatever I want to do next in life, like how I want to live my life, where I want to live my life, what career, what industry.”

That led him to “pick an industry [he] was absolutely passionate about” — one that allowed him to pull away from sitting at a computer all day and instead use that time to spend with his growing family.

From there, the Bucket List Family was created in 2015 — an online journal (blog, YouTube, and social media accounts) that follows Gee’s global adventures with wife Jessica (“Settie”), daughter Dorothy, and son Manilla. At the time, Dorothy and Manilla were 3 and 1, respectively.

The family sold all of their belongings for $45,000, which funded six months of travel to places like Thailand, Australia, Tahiti and Hawaii. The money — an undisclosed amount — Gee made from the Snapchat purchase hasn’t been used for any of their trips and remains in a savings account.

“Living as a travel journalist has enabled me to all day, every day be together with them,” he said.

In their travels, the family of four focuses on three aspects: adventure, culture, and service. At the end of 2015, they were able to cover LASIK surgery for five individuals and helped build a school in Nepal in 2016.

Another one of their missions is to debunk the idea that travel has to be expensive or that you need to pack a lot of possessions when going abroad.

“Along the way we figured out there are tons of things you can do to save money and be more frugal as you travel. And you don’t need that much stuff, so we tried packing in a more minimalistic way to the point where now as an entire family, we just have the two bags that we travel with, which is more than enough,” Gee said.

He added that vacations don’t necessarily mean eating out every night, going to theme parks or on pricey tour groups.

“Our favorite way to travel is to experience something local and a lot of that means going to the smaller cafes or the farmer’s market, just going to the park and doing the things that local people do like going to the beach. Most of the things are free so when you do it that way, traveling is very affordable,” he said.

Now with a sizable online following — the Instagram account reached 1 million followers in late January this year — the family partners with brands to get trips sponsored, which Gee said was one of their goals once the $45,000 ran out. Last summer, the family won Disney’s 30 Stays in 30 Days contest which granted them a month at Disney World, staying at a different hotel each night and exploring the four theme parks and two water parks.

In raising two young children in a hyper-connected world, the Gees hold standards about privacy, what they share, and not using technology excessively while on their travels. Instead of doing daily videos, they publish longer weekly videos, which lets them “be a regular family” and balance between documenting and savoring the present moment.

“Then we combine those [videos and photos] into one weekly video. So, you know, we don’t have our cameras out too much more than the average family and then we have that kind of relief in our minds to live regular lives and keep our lives more private,” Gee said.

As for safety, they are cautious about not posting in real-time.

“If we’re posting on social media that we’re at a current location, we always post delayed,” he explained. “Nobody could ever find us or track us based on our location that we’re posting online. But then that’s our privacy, something you kind of give and take or you forfeit when you put your lives out there so much on social media. I think for us it’s been finding that balance and drawing that line about how much we want to post on social media.”

Discovering roots 

In 2017, Gee starred in a web series called “Discovering Routes,” developed by ABS-CBN Global Studios, Myx TV and Go Button Media, in which he and his older sister Miristi (a yoga and dance instructor) journeyed across the Philippines to learn more about their Filipino heritage.

The idea came after ABS-CBN profiled Gee, and then reached out again and proposed doing a follow-up, documentary-style story.

“Everyone in the world has plugged into the Bucket List Family YouTube channel, and is familiar with Garrett the dad, Garrett the traveler, and Garrett the tech entrepreneur. Seeing him with his sister and interacting with his mom —  just seeing him in that space really reminds me that people are so multifaceted and that who Garrett has become today as a very special business person and travel adventurer is very largely rooted in how he was raised in his family and they’re very, very wonderful people,” Keesa Ocampo, executive producer of “Discovering Routes,” told the  Asian Journal .

The 20-webisode season, which was shot over 17 days and made its debut last September, featured stops in Coron, Palawan to visit the Tagbanua tribe and Kayangan Lake, harvesting rice at the Chocolate Hills in Bohol, and dancing to Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk” alongside inmates at a maximum-security prison in Cebu. In the final episode aired in November, the siblings were joined by their mom, Mel Gee Henderson, in Iloilo to participate in the Pintados de Passi festival.

“Growing up really close to my Filipino grandma, I instantly felt a sense that I belonged in the Philippines. The more people I met and the more halo-halo I ate, I became convinced that the best things about me are from this culture,” Miristi said.

In addition to it being his first immersive trip to the Philippines and feeling like he fit in spiritually and physically, Gee said the “one-on-one time” with his sister was “rare and unique” and strengthened their relationship.

Ocampo added, “The way that Garrett and Miristi are portrayed is exactly how they are. They’re funny, they’re compassionate, they are emotional and revealing, but at the same time, very adventurous and mischievous like that’s exactly who they are. And on the part of the network, it’s such an honor to be able to develop a very trusting relationship with them to create something that’s entertainment but also very real.”

As for a Philippines trip for the Bucket List Family, Gee said it’s bound to happen, but it wouldn’t be treated like any other trip.

“A lot of people ask us, we’ve been to 45 countries so far away, why haven’t we been to the Philippines? The honest truth is because the Philippines is such a special place to me. I didn’t want to make it just like one of the many countries we’ve visited. I wanted to give it special attention and special planning and special preparation. We’re just waiting for that special time when we as a family can go and spend a really long time there,” he said.

2018’s bucket list

The family recently welcomed a third child, another boy in February.  Despite plans to find a house for the brief period that Jessica can’t travel, Gee remarked that he doesn’t anticipate their jaunts to wind down.

“We know that we’re going to continue to travel because it’s just become a part of who we are especially as a family,” he said.

The newest addition to the “Bucket List” family was named Calihan (“Cali” for short), and already has an Instagram account with over 158,000 followers, as of this writing.

This past January, the family uploaded a close to 30-minute video answering commonly asked questions from followers, including what their 2018 will look like (Central America trips and trapeze lessons are among the plans) and how they’ll educate their kids as they approach school age (leaning toward traditional schooling).

However, the parents agree that nothing beats what the children are learning through world experience.

“I wish every parent could be able to let their kids experience travel because during these developmental years, they’re coming into a space emotionally and mentally, and it’s just so cool that they’re growing up not really understanding the differences of countries and nationalities. To them, it’s just one big open world. I think it’s been really special for them,” Gee said.

At not even 30 years old — having achieved success in the tech industry and traveled to 45 countries — what else remains on Gee’s “bucket list”?

“Now I think the next chapter needs to be me using those opportunities and gifting them to others, sharing them with others and hopefully enabling other people to do the same and make the most of their life,” he said. “Just trying to serve others, you know speaking out humanitarian opportunities and charity opportunities. And then also hopefully inspiring others and empowering them to follow in our footsteps.” – Photos courtesy of Garrett Gee/the Bucket List Family and Discovering Routes

Christina M. Oriel

Christina M. Oriel is an award-winning editor and communications strategist based in Los Angeles with experience in content, strategy and branding for media ecosystems, inclusive fintech startups, small businesses and direct-to-consumer products.

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A side from a one-off trip to Europe, the furthest Jessica Gee ever traveled while growing up was to Walt Disney World in Florida with her family.

However, over the past eight years, the travel influencer, known as “The Bucket List Mom,” has visited more than 90 different countries with her entrepreneur husband Garrett and their three children Dorothy, Manilla and Calihan.

“I never had the thought in my brain that ‘I want to travel around the world,’” Gee, from Denver, Colorado, tells CNN Travel. “That was never me. But the more I get out there, the more I want to see.”

According to Gee, everything changed when her husband, who she first met while on a church service mission in Vladivostok, Russia, sold his app to Snapchat for $54 million in 2014 and decided to quit his desk job.

Unique opportunity

“We were in a weird situation that maybe not a lot of twenty-something-year-olds are put in,” Gee admits. “We were sitting on some new wealth, and we didn’t know what to do. So we decided that we were going to set that all aside, and see what’s out in the world.”

The couple, who’ve been married since 2009, were keen to experience different cultures and “just learn a little bit.”

“We still felt so young and naive,” adds Gee.

They soon began planning an extended trip to Southeast Asia and decided to launch an Instagram page, The Bucket List Family , to collate their adventures.

“Honestly, I do think we kind of had this perfect storm of Garrett’s creative skills, and my background in marketing,” Gee says, explaining that she studied product placement in college. “Now I just do it with my own life.”

After putting the acquisition money into savings, they sold their furniture and most of their belongings, raising around $45,000, and headed off around the world with Dorothy and Manilla – Callihan was born while they were on the move – in August 2015.

They had initially planned to spend a few months traveling, visiting Thailand, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia, as well as Pacific islands Fiji and Tonga, but after briefly returning to the US, they decided that they wanted to keep going.

“The little bit of traveling turned into three years full-time,” adds Gee, who has just released a travel guidebook, The Bucket List Family Travel , in partnership with National Geographic.

The family went on to visit dozens of countries across the world, including Germany, Morocco, Japan, Brazil, Guatemala and Dominica.

Family favorites

Gee lists Belize among her top “family-friendly” destinations, describing the Central American country as a good “starter destination” for US-based families who aren’t ready to venture too far afield.

She also recommends “incredible” Alaska for those seeking outdoor adventures for their children.

“You have the fishing, the wildlife, the whales and the bears,” she says. “It’s great for kids who are maybe a little bit older – five and up. But I took my two-year-old there and he had a blast.”

Gee was also incredibly impressed by East African country Rwanda, a destination that she was apprehensive about visiting due to preconceived notions.

“I had seen [the movie] ‘Hotel Rwanda’ and that’s all I knew,” she says. “So I was nervous, and scared. And it ended up being the most life-changing destination for me.”

After spending so much time on the move, Gee is accustomed to extended travel and actually finds it easier than short-term travel, explaining that she often feels exhausted after taking a week-long vacation.

“When I’m traveling for a month at a time or more, I get into a groove, I get into a routine,” she says, adding that she packs more or less the same amount of items regardless of whether she’s traveling for a month, six months, or a fortnight.

She spent her entire third pregnancy “living out of a suitcase” before welcoming son Calihan in 2018.

“I hadn’t realized how much of a toll flying is on your body,” says Gee. “So it was exacerbated [due to my pregnancy].”

“Maybe it was also because it was my first pregnancy over the age of 30, but my back and my body hurt.

“But at the same time, we went to so many places in those nine months that I loved.”

Big adventure

Gee makes a point of ensuring that her children feel involved in their travel plans before they set off anywhere, getting them to help pack their backpacks, while framing everything, even a long-haul flight, as a “big adventure.”

“Then as soon as they sit on the plane, they’re so stoked to pull out the toy, the book and the snacks that they packed,” she explains.

According to Gee, one of the best ways to make traveling with young children as painless as possible is to “choose the best attitude.”

“Kids 100% feed off of parents’ attitudes,” she says. “So when things are tiring, exhausting and stressful, you just have to buck up and be positive. Because if you’re losing it, they’re going to lose it.”

While she tries to plan for all aspects of their travels, including scheduling flights during nap times and making sure their luggage is ready, Gee’s learned from experience to always have a back-up plan.

“Things go wrong,” she says. “You lose your luggage, or a flight gets canceled. Those hiccups.

“Having to deal with that and navigate kids and their needs – that’s always been the hardest part.”

The Bucket List Family’s Instagram account has amassed nearly three million followers over the years, and they’ve since launched successful YouTube and TikTok accounts, with the income earned from partnerships with different companies helping to support their travels.

Gee acknowledges that their situation is unique, and there are many parents who simply can’t afford to jet off around the world with their kids.

She provides money-saving tips in “The Bucket List Family Travel,” including home exchanges and budgeting apps, and encourages families to figure out what they want to do travel-wise and then try to “make it affordable.”

“A lot of times, it’s just finding a national park and camping or hiking,” she says. “Or seeing if you can work enough to earn some time away for an extended period.”

The Gee family have “service” listed among their travel goals, and do their best to incorporate activities like volunteering at an orphanage into their trips.

“Usually travel is a selfish endeavor. Taking the time to really look outside yourself and your own family and see who you could serve locally will be a huge blessing,” Gee writes.

After three years of being on the move full-time, the family-of-five returned to the US, purchasing a bungalow in Hawaii, in 2018.

Ever-changing bucket list

“The one thing that we miss when we’re on the road is community,” Gee says. “We missed having friends and family [around] and wanted to get our kids into sport and let them experience that.

“So that’s when we decided to settle down and then try to have the best of both worlds.”

They’ve continued to travel as a family in the years since then, and recently spent an entire summer in Africa.

But staying in one place for a long period of time has proven to be something of an adjustment for her children, particularly son Manilla, who was around 11 months old when they first set off.

“He was used to sleeping in a different bed every night or every couple of nights [when we first came back],” she explains. “So he would sleep in different rooms of the house every night.

“It was a weird adjustment for him to learn that we weren’t going to the airport and that we were staying home.”

Although Gee does her best to schedule their travels during school vacations, there are occasional exceptions, such as an upcoming visit to Antarctica.

“We have extra tutoring just to keep them on track,” she says. “And we’ll bring our school work along with us.

“And even during the summer when they don’t have school work, we still bring along those extra books and try to make it exciting for them.”

According to Gee, her family’s bucket list has changed over the years as they’ve all become huge wildlife enthusiasts, so things like seeing the “pandas in China” and the “orangutans in Borneo” have moved close to the top.

“My favorite thing to do with my family is go on safari,” she adds. “We’ve done that a handful of times now.

“But to me, there’s nothing better than being out in an environment where something new [is happening] every single day.

“You wake up and you don’t know what you’re going to see, and then to see these animals and wildlife and how they all live together and depend on each other.

“It sounds so corny, but literally the circle of life. Experiencing that and witnessing that with my family is just so beautiful.”

She advises other parents keen to travel more with their children to try to step outside their comfort zone and “get out there and explore,” whether it’s “for one week of the year or for a lifetime.”

“I feel like the more you get out and experience things, the more your bucket list grows,” says Gee.

“I think a lot of American families have their vacation that they go to. For me it was Disney World. And I love Disney World, don’t get me wrong.

“But [it’s important] to be able to get out and see the world and realize there’s so much more out there.”

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Tech millionaire Garrett Gee and family sell everything to travel — and give back

At first glance, the Bucket List Family’s Instagram photo feed is nothing more than four gorgeous people: Garrett, Jessica, and their children Dorothy, 3, and Manilla, 1, visiting exotic locales like Tonga, Byron Bay, Tahiti, New Zealand and Bali. But upon closer inspection, the Bucket List Family is much, much more.

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Ever the entrepreneur, Garrett Gee designed his first app in 2011 while still a student at Brigham Young University. The free QR-scanning product was a hit, and a later iteration proved even more successful and more lucrative. He and two co-designers, Ben Turley and Kirk Ouimet eventually formed a company called Scan Inc., and in December 2014, startup darling Snapchat bought Scan Inc., for $54 million.

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That’s when 27-year-old Gee and his wife, Jessica, decided to invest their earnings, sell most of their possessions and travel the world using only the $45,000 they made from their mega garage sale.

Along the way, the duo has adopted a pattern of quiet and rather stealthy giving, including anonymously donating funds to a family who couldn’t afford their kids’ sports fees, helping a college student who was about to abandon his studies because of mounting bills, and initiating many other spontaneous monetary gifts that have remained private. They’ve also bought out local artisans’ wares, only to give them away via social media, volunteered at orphanages and donated a Disney cruise.

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“We are always looking at ways we can help others, rather than focusing on ourselves,” said Jessica Gee, 29.

“It’s something really good that we can do,” said Garrett. But recently, they went public with a promise to donate LASIK surgery through Hoopes Vision, a surgical vision correction center based out of Salt Lake City, to five deserving people. The requests poured in.

“People have really hard lives and it’s hard to just choose a small group,” said Jessica, a LASIK recipient herself. “But it means a lot that we can give that gift of vision.”

“We want to pay it forward,” added Garrett, who in the future looks forward to scaling the family’s benevolence to larger, more impactful projects.

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Their philanthropic journey has not been without its detractors. Some have called the couple spoiled, questioned their motives and even criticized their parenting. While Garrett brushed it off, Jessica initially felt the sting.

“At the end of the day, we are helping and inspiring people and that’s what I will cling to,” said Jessica.

As for their two young kids adapting to life abroad, there have been occasional requests for pizza and McNuggets. When that happens, Garrett will turn their attention to curry or pad thai and help them embrace the local fare, and the adventure.

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The Gee family is planning to return to the states for a month to spend the holidays with family and friends, and then it’s back on the road, and immediately back to their impromptu altruism.

Garrett said they are still working on mapping out exactly where they will go and what they will do.

“It’s a clean slate,” he said.

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Ticket prices for the Trans-Siberian Railway also depend on the current ruble exchange rate.

Is the Trans-Siberian Railway expensive?

Before starting on your Trans-Siberian Railway adventure you naturally want to know what the entire trip will cost. Although this sounds like a simple question, it is pretty difficult to answer. The Trans-Siberian Railway price of travel depends on the following factors:

• Which travel class do I want to use? The price for a first class ticket is about three times the price of a 3rd class ticket
• Am I willing to buy the tickets myself and assume responsibility for the organisation of the trip?
• How many stopovers do I want to make? The more breaks, the higher the total price.
• What sort of accommodation do I want? Will it be a luxury hotel or will a hostel dormitory be sufficient?
• What tours and excursions would I like to go on?
• What is the current exchange rate for rubles?

Basically, everything from a luxury to a budget holiday is available. If you buy yourself a 3rd Class nonstop ticket at the counter, a few hundred Euros will cover the price. All you will experience is a week on the Trans-Siberian train and will see nothing of the cities on the way. There is, however, any amount of room for upward expansion. Everyone makes different choices about which aspects they are willing to spend money on. I personally prefer to save money on accommodation and railcar class, visit as many cities and do as many trips as possible. To enable better classification of your travel expenses I have contrasted two typical traveler types. In the third column you can calculate the total cost of your own journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Please keep in mind that these are only rough estimations and not exact prices.

The all-in costs seem fairly high at first. However, they cover everything and it is quite a long journey taking four weeks. Many people forget to consider that when looking at the list. We should also deduct the running costs for food and leisure at home. I think most visitors to this page will classify themselves somewhere between the two categories, that is around the € 2,000 – € 2,500 range. When comparing these prices with other travel packages, you get the impression that it is hardly worthwhile travelling individually on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Please keep in mind that most packages last no more than 14 days and you are herded like cattle through the most beautiful locations.

If you spend less time on the Trans-Siberian Railway you will, of course, pay less. I chose this particular travel length because I prefer not to do things by halves. If you fulfill your dream of travelling on the Trans-Siberian Railway, enjoy it and don’t rush things. But it’s up to you, of course. Try playing around with the form a bit to find the appropriate price for your trip.

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