Welcome to Sharing the Wander!
Here you’ll find family-friendly itineraries, help planning a family year out, and lots of honest advice about traveling with kids.
All written by a real traveling family to help you travel with confidence.

Who Are We?
We are the von Bergs, an American family of four who love traveling together, and your resource for budget family travel.
We started by planning a Family Gap Year and then kept traveling around the world.
After three years of full-time travel, we visited more than 30 countries together including 6 of the 7 Modern Wonders of the World.
In 2024 we started settling into a home base in Porto, Portugal. We continue to share our adventures both as expats and world travelers.
We aren’t backpackers, but we do travel on a budget. We love sharing our passion family travel with other families.
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