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047: International Nomads Austin and Geneva

December 5, 2016

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Enjoy our interview with our recent guests 10-year-old Geneva and her father Austin, who are traveling the world together.

Topics we cover:

An introduction to Austin and Geneva who made Villa Cappelli a pit stop on their world tour
Austin is single father traveling with his daughter Geneva who is 10 years old
The most recent cities they’ve visited after traveling for a year and a half
Whether our not they are in the witness protection program
Geneva was born in NY
She’s been to 31 countries at the ripe old age of 10
What her favorite country is (or does she have one?)
What Austin’s favorite countries are
The country that Austin believes everyone should visit (and surprisingly it’s NOT Italy). We should have kicked him out of the villa right then.
How Austin decided to home school Geneva a couple of years ago based on the advice of one of her teachers
It was difficult in the beginning, but now Geneva works with her father to design her curriculum
Austin really wants her to be curious and to know herself
If you are interested, here are a couple of resource sites for homeschooling:

http://www.homeschool.com/

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/06/17/guide-to-the-best-homeschooling-and-unschooling-resources/

How homeschooling helps you really get to know your child and their strengths of weaknesses
How Austin and Geneva got to be a part of our harvest tour for 2016 and help us pick olives
Why Austin decided to have Geneva as a single parent
The process Austin went through, from surrogacy and more, in order to have Geneva
And how Geneva’s mother was actually Austin’s French teacher
How money wasn’t really fulfilling him and why he decided to have Geneva
Austin’s philosophy of people on the color spectrum
How they talked about changing their last names, and Austin’s was Frost and Geneva’s was Bagel, which she based on being a name that was used to pick on her in school
What it’s like for Geneva being the child of a gay father
Does she feel like anything is missing?
How Geneva has become a little sister to Casey
The difference between staying at a five-star hotel where no one is talking to each other and staying a Motel 6 where all the guests have BBQs together
Austin’s revelation in when he went for a walk at night and saw a bunch of people in their giant homes
If travel is part of Geneva’s education
Austin wanted Geneva to see America is not just “it”
Where Austin and Geneva’s home is
How in America you normally live in stand alone homes, but in Europe and especially Italy, where a majority of people live in apartment buildings, closer together and know their neighbors
How Italians live at home with their families until they get married
Whether Geneva would rather be traveling or settled down in a big home, aka “having the American” dream
Where Geneva feels her home is, everywhere and wherever her dad is
If you can save $10 a day, you’ll have $1200 after 3 months, so you save
How much more fun Austin and Geneva have had on their most recent trip with a smaller budget