![]() Garrett said he has a few business ideas he wants to pursue when the travels slow down, but until then he’s focused on staying busy with the current venture. I do all of the travel planning, brand management and posting to social media.” ![]() “It started off as a family vacation, but now has turned into a family business of sorts,” Jessica said. “Garrett does all the photography, videography and editing. Jessica said the family blog and social media now pay for their adventurous travels. Garrett said some of his old investors have asked when he plans to stop traveling and go back to work, but Garrett and Jessica have built another successful business from their travels. “I’ve loved creating a brand around my family and the values that we hold,” Garrett said. Garrett said his experiences traveling and creating a blog, “The Bucket List Family,” to capture the adventures have been very rewarding. ![]() In 2016, Garrett and his family sold nearly everything they owned to begin their family adventure around the world. When Garrett was a freshman at BYU, he built his first app, Scan, and sold it four years later to Snapchat for $54 million. They frequently catalog their adventures on their Instagram account, where they have amassed over 545,000 followers. The Gee family has visited 38 countries in the past 21 months. Jessica said she and Garrett plan to continue traveling full-time as “ the Bucket List Family” as long as it feels right. “Now it’s been 21 months, and we’ve been to 38 countries.” “That’s when we decided we wanted to continue to travel,” Jessica said. The Gee family - Garrett, Jessica, Dorothy and Manilla - set off in August 2015 for French Polynesia, where they would spend five months in the South Pacific before returning home for Christmas. From left: Dorothy, Jessica, Garrett and Manilla Gee have traveled the world over the past few years and have created the successful blog “The Bucket List Family.” Their story has been featured by many large news outlets such as “The Today Show,” People Magazine, Business Insider and Cosmopolitan.
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