2025 Life Changes (Our Biggest Update Ever)
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We have everything written down. And of course, it starts just before New Year's Eve for 2024.
We launched a second YouTube channel called Live the Philippines.
We started ABC Trips to offer our bespoke itineraries to those seeking authentic culture, epic landscapes, and uncompromising luxury.
We are currently working on a bit of due diligence, upfront due diligence on one of these that we've been negotiating with for a couple of months.
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Let Erin and Phil book this same experience for you, personally! We started ABC Trips to offer our bespoke itineraries to those seeking authentic culture, epic landscapes, and uncompromising luxury. 👉🏼 https://abctrips.com Our American family has been exploring the world constantly since 2020. We’ve visited countless countries and all seven continents, while still generating income and ensuring a formal education for our kids. But everything is changing in 2025. Contents: 0:00 Intro 0:40 Getting an apartment in Manila 2:03 Seven Continents Seven ways 4:39 Our United Airlines status 6:35 Philippines travel in 2024 10:00 Changes with Brooklyn 12:19 Colt’s Online School 13:33 ABC Trips 18:09 Travel Free, Live Rich 22:12 Phil’s children’s book 23:16 Our boutique resort update 26:43 Future travel plans 27:56 Group trips 31:17 Favorite trips in 2024 35:04 Conclusion We’re the Lockwoods. Since 2020, we’ve been traveling the world to experience—up close and in person—all the natural wonders and distinct cultures that our kids would otherwise see only in textbooks and TV. We think it’s a better way to learn and we’ve worked hard to fund our little experiment in the hope that our kids will grow up wiser, kinder, and more grateful for the beauty of our diverse planet and its people. In 2025, we started ABC Trips to help travelers experience the world the way we do—deeply, intentionally, and without the stress of figuring everything out alone. After years of full-time travel, expedition cruising, luxury hotels, and once-in-a-lifetime experiences with our family, we realized something: the hardest part of epic travel isn’t the destination—it’s the decisions. Which ship actually gets you more time on the ice? Which safari lodge delivers real wildlife encounters? Which “bucket list” experiences are worth the money… and which are just hype? ABC Trips exists to cut through the noise. We plan and host thoughtfully curated journeys built around firsthand experience, honest recommendations, and moments that actually move the needle—whether that’s setting foot on Antarctica, tracking wildlife in Africa, or discovering cultures in a way that feels human, not herded. Our LinkTree: https://abctrips.com/linktree Brand Collabs: https://abctrips.com/collab