I do all of the travel planning, brand management and posting to social media.” “It started off as a family vacation, but now has turned into a family business of sorts,” Jessica said. “Garrett does all the photography, videography and editing. Jessica said the family blog and social media now pay for their adventurous travels. Garrett said some of his old investors have asked when he plans to stop traveling and go back to work, but Garrett and Jessica have built another successful business from their travels. “I’ve loved creating a brand around my family and the values that we hold,” Garrett said. Garrett said his experiences traveling and creating a blog, “The Bucket List Family,” to capture the adventures have been very rewarding. In 2016, Garrett and his family sold nearly everything they owned to begin their family adventure around the world. When Garrett was a freshman at BYU, he built his first app, Scan, and sold it four years later to Snapchat for $54 million. They frequently catalog their adventures on their Instagram account, where they have amassed over 545,000 followers. The Gee family has visited 38 countries in the past 21 months. Jessica said she and Garrett plan to continue traveling full-time as “ the Bucket List Family” as long as it feels right. “Now it’s been 21 months, and we’ve been to 38 countries.” “That’s when we decided we wanted to continue to travel,” Jessica said. The Gee family - Garrett, Jessica, Dorothy and Manilla - set off in August 2015 for French Polynesia, where they would spend five months in the South Pacific before returning home for Christmas. So whatever you’ve had on your own bucket list – go after it!Ĭheck out the rest of their family photos and follow their adventures on their Instagram account here.From left: Dorothy, Jessica, Garrett and Manilla Gee have traveled the world over the past few years and have created the successful blog “The Bucket List Family.” Their story has been featured by many large news outlets such as “The Today Show,” People Magazine, Business Insider and Cosmopolitan. They send an inspiring message to the dreamers of the world: You don’t have to settle into 9-5 shifts and spread-sheets you are not restricted, no matter where you are in life. The Bucket List Family is living proof that possibility and adventure doesn’t come to a crashing halt once you get a job and have kids instead the Gees are a close-knit clan, together doing everything under the sun (and sometimes the snow) side by side.
Hiking, scuba diving, scaling cliffs, spotting sea turtles, swimming with sperm whales, and apparently even getting to know a yak at one point, they are grabbing life by the horns and travelling while they are young and still have the opportunity. Travelling a total of 23 countries in 2016 alone, the Gee family are taking the world by storm, travelling country after country, seeing sights, immersing themselves in different cultures and taking in the stunning natural beauty of the world around them.
The young kids pose happily alongside their adoring parents in some of the most stunning places in the world, places most people only have… well, on their bucket list.
They take countless adorable pictures of their children Dorothy and Manilla, both blessed with identical golden curls and bright smiles, doing everything from skiing on the snow-dusted mountains of Utah to running along the desert dunes of Dubai. Now they’ve been travelling for over a year and still going strong. They sold most of their possessions – bringing in around $45,000, which they use to fund the trip – and packed the rest into two backpacks. Realizing that he and his wife Jessica weren’t suited to the 9-5 lifestyle of briefcases and routine, Gee and his family decided to uproot their lives and head out into the world of chance and possibility. It all began when Garrett Gee, a young entrepreneur, landed a fortune off of his company’s contributions to the Snapchat brand and immediately decided to put the millions of dollars (54 to be exact) to the side in savings.