Hi! We’re the Dennings.

We are normal people who were living a normal life– until we decided we wanted something more and began designing the life we really wanted to live.

Now we’re homeless (on purpose) and extremely nomadic. We love to wander and explore and DISCOVER new things.

Our aim is to live simply, maximize our freedom, and escape the mundane.

People sometimes think we’re strange (or worse), and they usually agree we’re pretty unconventional. But we believe that life is meant to be extraordinary.

We dream with eyes wide open. And we dream big.

On our site we SHARE ideas that will challenge you to live an unconventional family life, to throw off the status quo, to escape the peacock pageant and live life on your terms.

Where Are We Now? Where Have We Been?

We’re are currently taking an overland trip from Alaska to Argentina. 

Click here to read our complete story about how we became a nomadic family. (See where we are now, view our itinerary or connect with us)

Watch the video below to see what motivates us, or scroll down to watch our interview with Adam Baker from ManvsDebt:

Our travel adventures began with a move to Costa Rica in 2007, when we sold everything and loaded our (then) four children into our SUV (at the time ages 4, 3, 1 and 3 months) and drove from Utah, along the Pacific coast of Mexico, through Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and finally to Costa Rica (then later Panama).

On that epic journey we crossed not just political borders, but psychological ones as well.

We pushed the limits of what we believed we could do, and found a latent power that now directs our life.

We spent one wonderful year living in Costa Rica before returning to Utah in 2008.

After a year in Utah, we got itchy feet again, so we packed up and flew to the Dominican Republic, site unseen, where we spent six months enjoying the Caribbean and orchestrating a project which established a library in a rural school, and placed over 400 books in other schools and libraries throughout the northern coast of the DR.

Back to the States again, this time we chose Atlanta, GA, where we spent six months before moving to India, to the Southern state of Tamil Nadu, where my husband worked as the Assistant Director for a school that housed and taught children who’s families are affected by leprosy.

Once we discovered a baby was on the way, we returned to Atlanta, bought a van, then drove from Atlanta to Utah and finally to Alaska.

Arriving in the land of the midnight sun, we enjoyed the long summer days of Alaska, and then had baby number five – Atlas Sterling Denning, born September 11, 2010.

Six weeks later, on October 30, 2010, our family was hit broadside in the little town of Homer. Three year old Aaliyah broke her femur and spent 14 weeks in a full body cast. That kept us busy (understatement). It was a long, cold and dark winter.

But after winter comes spring! Then summer. That’s where we’re headed now!

We’re undertaking an amazing adventure – an overland trip from Alaska to Argentina in a truck fueled by recycled vegetable oil.

We hope you enjoy our site. We want it to INSPIRE you to have the courage to live the life you dream of living!

Interview with Adam Baker from ManvsDebt