Who We Are
Welcome! We are the Turner family: Nate, Astrid, Zhane, Isla, Ariel and Chewy (the hound). With our powers combined, we become the Turner Travelers, exploring the U.S. in our skoolie ship we named Serenity (yes, we are Firefly fans!). Serenity is a school bus that we have converted to an RV. We have three children aged 9, 6 and 3, plus our dog, Chewy.
For most of the year we consider our "home base" to be Fayetteville, AR. Nate and Astrid are originally from Southern California and ended up in NW Arkansas, where our girls were born and now have a lot of friends and family. In 2018 we purchased a retired school bus and started the conversion process. As we get so many questions about how we converted the bus, many of our blog posts and videos discuss our conversion process. We also like to share our travel plans and photos, as well as any deals, promotions or ideas that we have found along our travels. We hope that some of these posts will help other traveling families and skoolie owners, and inspire others to give it a try, too!
As for the kids, they are homeschooled so that we can have the flexibility to travel whenever the opportunity arises. We are unschoolers and believe in natural and child-led learning. All of our children have been unschooled since the very beginning, so it is a lifestyle for us and we really do enjoy it. Astrid is also an online teacher, offering live and offline virtual classes on Outschool, which helps to support our travels. If you are interested in joining Outschool as a teacher, join via my link and email me if you'd like some help signing up:
https://outschool.com/teachers/Astrid-Turner?usid=yseUXeJy&signup=true&utm_campaign=share_leader_link
If you would like to follow our travels on Instagram, you can follow our hashtags: #turnertraveler and #unskoolbus
We also have a YouTube channel. Feel free to subscribe to our blog for updates, and email via our contact form for questions.
For most of the year we consider our "home base" to be Fayetteville, AR. Nate and Astrid are originally from Southern California and ended up in NW Arkansas, where our girls were born and now have a lot of friends and family. In 2018 we purchased a retired school bus and started the conversion process. As we get so many questions about how we converted the bus, many of our blog posts and videos discuss our conversion process. We also like to share our travel plans and photos, as well as any deals, promotions or ideas that we have found along our travels. We hope that some of these posts will help other traveling families and skoolie owners, and inspire others to give it a try, too!
As for the kids, they are homeschooled so that we can have the flexibility to travel whenever the opportunity arises. We are unschoolers and believe in natural and child-led learning. All of our children have been unschooled since the very beginning, so it is a lifestyle for us and we really do enjoy it. Astrid is also an online teacher, offering live and offline virtual classes on Outschool, which helps to support our travels. If you are interested in joining Outschool as a teacher, join via my link and email me if you'd like some help signing up:
https://outschool.com/teachers/Astrid-Turner?usid=yseUXeJy&signup=true&utm_campaign=share_leader_link
If you would like to follow our travels on Instagram, you can follow our hashtags: #turnertraveler and #unskoolbus
We also have a YouTube channel. Feel free to subscribe to our blog for updates, and email via our contact form for questions.