Travel Bigger
Land. Sea. No limits.
Cruises. Slow travel. A bigger way to explore the world.
What We Mean By “Travel Bigger”
Five ideas shape how we explore the world differently — from living on cruise ships part-time to using cruises as gateways to slow travel and deeper experiences around the globe.
Many travelers wonder if it’s possible to travel long-term or even live on a cruise ship. Our answer is Travel Bigger.
Travel Bigger means designing travel that goes beyond traditional vacations — combining cruises, longer stays, and flexible planning to explore the world more deeply.
We’re Tim & Kathi, creators of Cruise Through Retirement and Taste Life With Us, and Travel Bigger is the strategy that connects everything we do.
Start With a Cruise
Cruises are our starting point, often repositioning us to a new region while letting us sample multiple destinations and more remote areas. At the same time, they set us up to explore more deeply on land.
Go Beyond the Port
Don’t just visit a destination for a few hours. Use your cruise starting and ending points as gateways to explore the region more fully. You can even connect one region to another — by land or by sea. You’re already there!
Experience Culture
Food, wine, neighborhoods, and everyday life are where travel becomes meaningful. We love to see a few iconic sights, but we prefer staying just outside the tourist bubble and letting serendipity happen.
Stay Longer
Slow down. A few weeks in one place often reveals more than racing through ten cities. Surprisingly, longer stays are usually less expensive—and definitely less exhausting.
Travel Smarter
With the right strategy, cruises and land travel can work together to create bigger, richer adventures. We’ve developed tools and resources to help you plan faster and easier — and travel with greater confidence.
Our Travel Life Unfolds on
Two Channels
We share what it’s really like living on cruise ships, traveling the world full-time, and using cruises as connectors to deeper slow travel on land.
Cruise Through Retirement
Cruise | Explore | Expand
Life on the ships — long voyages, ship tours, cruise strategy, and what it’s really like living on cruise ships.
Taste Life With Us
Travel | Life | Freedom
Life between the cruises — slow travel, food, neighborhoods, and the everyday experiences that make a place feel real.
Watch Travel Bigger in Action
Why We Never “Just” Take a Cruise: Travel Bigger Ep. 1
Cruise Through Retirement
The Dream You Can Live: Traveling Full-Time on Less
Taste Life With Us
We Tried Living on a Cruise Ship — The Reality
Cruise Through Retirement
Tim & Kathi
We are full-time travelers using our Travel Bigger philosophy to see the world by land and sea. We hope you’ll follow our journey.
We use cruises as connectors and samplers and they’ve taken us to remote places like Antarctica and the Arctic Circle).
On land we slow travel, staying just outside the tourist bubble, where we still feel comfortable and confident but can enjoy a more authentic neighborhood experience.
We’d love to show you how to design your own Travel Bigger life — whether full-time like us or whenever you have the opportunity.
FOLLOW OUR JOURNEY
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Full-time travel stories & tips — updates every week.
Follow our daily location & pictures on our socials.
Watch on YouTube →
Planning, Ships & Inspiration — updates every week.
Follow our daily location & pictures on our socials.
If our videos or travel lessons have helped you travel bigger — or made your itinerary planning easier — you can support our work using the coffee link below.
Full disclaimer though—we might buy a glass of wine instead😉
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We’d love to hear from you!
Want More?
Keep the journey going with these two playlists:
Taste Life With Us
▶ Watch The Dream You Can Live playlist
Cruise Through Retirement