047: International Nomads Austin and Geneva

Living Villa Cappelli

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

Follow Austin and Geneva on Facebook at PeterTink.

Follow them on Instagram here at https://www.instagram.com/2nomadic/

Here's the Pinky and the Brain opening video we mentioned.