How The Bucket List Family Travels the World with Garrett Gee

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Adventurer Garrett Gee turned a four month family trip in 2015 into The Bucket List Family, documenting world travel with his wife, Jessica, and their kids. What began as videos shared on YouTube and Instagram became a global family travel brand with millions of followers, built on experiences from shark diving in South Africa to hot air balloons in Turkey and biking through shrines and gardens in Japan.

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0:00.0	I had applied for a job in Portland, but the man who is interviewing me at the very end, he's like,
0:09.6	I think the last question that we need to discuss is how much money is it going to take
0:15.1	to like secure this for you? And as a joke, I answered to that saying,
0:20.3	you just need to pay me more
0:22.6	that is better than traveling the world with my family for free. And as those words left my
0:28.3	mouth, I just came to this realization like, oh, shoot, no amount of money is better than
0:34.3	traveling the world with my family for free, let alone getting paid for it.
0:39.5	In 2015, Garrett G. started documenting an international family vacation that was only supposed to last four months.
0:48.6	He posted videos of himself, his wife Jessica, and their kids on YouTube and Instagram under the name the Bucketlist
0:56.0	family. Fast forward 10 years and that short trip has turned into a business and an inspiration
1:04.0	to countless others. The Bucketless family has acquired millions of followers online as they
1:09.6	bring their audience along on their world travels.
1:12.9	They've gone shark diving in South Africa, watched hot air balloons in Turkey,
1:18.3	biked through shrines and gardens in Japan, and learned about ancient mythology in the heart of Greece.
1:25.1	Garrett and his family chose a life that pushes them beyond their comfort zone,
1:29.2	into new places, real challenges, and experiences that change how they see the world.
1:34.9	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is wild ideas worth living, an REI Co-op Studios production
1:40.7	presented by Capital One and the REI Co-Oap MasterCard.
1:49.0	Garrett G., welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
1:52.6	Thank you for having me.
1:54.1	Where do we even start?
1:55.0	Were you always like this?
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