IronKids is going AROUND the WORLD!!
We are excited to announce that the amazing Davis family will be leaving on June 30th to travel around the world and will be trusting IronKids and Adult Essentials to keep them healthy on the road for an entire YEAR! Read all about their travels and keep up to date on not only the countries they visit, but the opportunities they find for IronKids to give back and to help children around the world stay healthy.
It's going to be an amazing year & we can't wait to share it with you!
FOLLOW THE GLOBETROTTINGMAMA, HER FAMILY & IRONKIDS Vitamins!!
The trip has begun, the photos & blogs are rolling in!! Get to know the Davis family below, but follow along their travels here:
Canmore and Calgary Alberta & an amazing story of The People You Meet while traveling.
Kids Talk Winnipeg, Manitoba & the first blog post from the Globetrotting Kids The Globetrotting Kids . . .Speak.
Whistler, British Columbia and Heather shares her packing list How to Travel Around the World with One Bag & More About a Bear!
Adult Essentials Vit D at the Calgary Stampede?! Adult Essentials Multi Vitamins at the top of Whistler Mtn!
Kananaskis Valley, Albert and the Davis family fall in love with the outdoors . . bears & all! Kid vs. Nature in Kananaskis
Galapagos Islands and the photos are amazing . .the stories even better! Galapagos
Kids Talk- Buenos Aires Wonder how kids see travel? Check out Ethan's photo essay on Buenos Aires.
China Day 60 and the Great Wall like you have never seen it. Beijing and The Not So Forbidden City. Do you know How to Stand Out in China?
China The Good People of China and Just Another Day in China: The Haircut
Kids Talk - China A photo essay from Cameron on the Panda's in Chengdu, 7 Days in China, The Movie
Panda's in China Panda from China at San Diego Zoo
Kids Talk - China Trying new Foods in China.
China Heather recently wrote a post wondering if Travel can Cured a Picky Eater?
China Something not to be missed A Different View of the Terra Cotta Warriors
The First 100 Days 100 days ago the Davis Family left for their Around the World Trip.
Read what each is grateful for: Ish, Ethan, Cameron & Heather
China - looking for a quiet place to stay still for a few days, the Davis Family found themselves in Yangshuo Unexpected
China - The photos will pull your heart strings So Much More Than Lunch: Our Time at a Shanghai Children's Hospice
Australia The Davis Family is moving on after a month in China. Read about their Bumpy Start and a Fabulous Finish to Apartment Rental Down Under
Australia Learning their way around At Home In Woollooomooloo
Australia A photo Essay of the beauty Down Under Davis Family Style!! Family Adventures in Australia
Kids Talk - Australia As seen through the eyes of Ethan & Cam - a super cute Photo Essay Australian Animals
Australia When you travel for an entire year, the kids have to fit school work in. Heather passes on her favorite websites Online Homework Help
Australia Hayman island The Davis Family finds Paradis Something for each of us on Hayman Island
FUNNY STORY: This was a funny day. We were on Hayman Island in Australia. There are tons of Cockatoos (Cockatiels) on the island and they are a bit of a nuisance. You have to keep your doors closed or they come in, they can open sugar packets with their beaks and they'll walk up and still your breakfast right off the place. Don't know if you've seen "Rio" but they are all exactly like that bird. I got the idea that I could take a shot of a box with the cockatoo. This is what happened . .. and then he flew away and took my box with him!
New Zealand A Photo Essay of a daring New Zealand Road Trip
Lake Tepau, New Zealand
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The Energy to Keep Going
Heather Greenwood Davis November 2011
When we started out on this yearlong trip around the world there were a few things we knew we would need to stay healthy. Vaccinations were key for certain parts of the world and of course diet and rest would be necessary to make sure we didn’t find ourselves too sick to enjoy the trip. I also knew that keeping our energy up would be key. Cranky kids too tired to walk along the Great Wall of China or up the side of a volcano do not a fun trip make. It was one of the reasons I was happy to carry our IronKids & Adult Essentials Gummy vitamins with us.
Three months later I can tell you they’ve made a difference.
Here’s how I know.
Not one of us has gotten sick since we left and our energy levels are way beyond what they used to be. We walked 20 km uphill, through mud to the top of a volcano in the Galapagos Islands – the kids led the way, but we all made it and no one complained. We’ve walked for hours on end through the streets of Argentina, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. We rode 27km through the bumpy back country of Yangshuo, China – we were on tandem bikes but the kids pedaled too and again no one complained. (I was sore the next day but my energy during the trip? Like I never knew I had.)
Having the strength to do these things has changed our experience on the trip. Sure, it’s great that we’ve all stayed healthy but this trip has been a long time in the planning and it would be a shame if it was ruined because we were all too sick or tired to get out and see it all. But the added boost has also helped us all go a little further out of our comfort zone physically. We’ve done more on this trip than I imagined and our memories will be all the more vivid because of it.
This whole “being an active family” thing is starting to grow on me. ;)
First, here is an introduction from The Davies family themselves:
Healthy Travel making a difference
Heather Greenwood Davis
For more than 10 years my husband Ish and I have talked about taking the trip of a lifetime. We’re both big fans of travel and have made new friends and tried new things in places all over the planet. We wanted more. What if we could travel for months at a time?” we’d fantasize. “Or even a year!”
Time passed and we had two sons, Ethan and Cameron, and settled into the life we were supposed to have: work, school, soccer practices, repeat.
It was fulfilling in some ways but we knew something was missing.
Five years ago, Ish came home from work one day beaming. His job was offering a pre-paid sabbatical: Let them hold 20% of your pay for the next 4 years and in year five you could have the year off at 80% of your salary. We took it. And on June 30 we’ll head out to travel the world for that year.
The decision to travel was easy, the decision to take our kids required a bit more thought. We have a responsibility to keep them healthy and safe that, like all parents, we take very seriously. And as committed as we were to showing them this planet we also wanted to make sure they were going to be as healthy as they could be along the way.
So in the same way that we researched war zones and vaccinations, we thought long and hard about what we’d want to do about their general health on the road.
We’ve been fans of the Life Science Nutritional line of vitamins for a few months now and the fact that I don’t have to chase my boys to get them to eat their vitamins appealed to me. We decided to take them along and then Deb Lowther took it a step further.
What if we could provide vitamins to kids in places where nutrition is always an issue? What if we could share the gift of health?
And so that’s what we’ll do. Over the course of the year we’ll be looking for people and places who are open to us making a delivery of IronKids to their orphanage or school. We’ll also be sharing our adventures and their stories with you. I hope you’ll join us on this trip both here and on our website www.globetrottingmama.com.
We’re so proud to be affiliated with Deb and Stuart and the entire Life Science Nutritionals line of products and can’t wait to take the brand around the world.
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