Home is wherever we park the car.
We work (my husband Andry and I:Faliana) remotely in tourism, and running a car rental business across Madagascar. When there are no clients on the road, that’s our cue to pack up and travel too, sometimes pitching tents under the stars, sometimes treating ourselves to a hotel when the budget allows.
Our four children started out in homeschooling in 2020, then moved to unschooling, so that travel could become part of their education rather than an interruption to it. We call it worldschooling. Our two oldest are now finishing middle school and high school, so we’ve enrolled them part time to keep them aligned with the curriculum. Our two youngest keep learning the way they always have : through experience, curiosity, and the world itself.
When we’re not on the road, home is Farmily, our farm in Antsirabe. It’s there that we reconnect with the land, with a slower, simpler way of living. It’s where our kids learn where food comes from, what it means to care for animals, and what it feels like to unplug.
We also have an apartment in Morondava; part of it serves as a base for our drivers heading to the Tsingy and the Avenue of the Baobabs, while the other part is available for travelers to rent.
Why “The Next Nest”? Because home, for us, isn’t one fixed place … It’s wherever we land next. A tent under the stars, our farm in Antsirabe, a guesthouse in Morondava, or the back seat of a car on a long dirt road. Each stop becomes our nest for a while, before we move on to the next one.
Between the farm, the road, and Morondava, our classroom has no walls. This blog is where we share it all: the cultures we encounter, the landscapes that take our breath away, the people who welcome us in, and the wonderfully unexpected moments that remind us why we chose this life.
Our world, our classroom.
