Hi, we're the Periodic Travelers
We're Michael and Chantelle, plus our boys Everett andFinn, our baby girl Vienna, and a very fluffy puppy named Puddles. Michael serves in the Navy and Chantelle is a nurse. The name says it all: we travel in periods. Every few years the Navy hands us new orders, and we pack up the whole house and start over somewhere new.
So far that's meant Utah in 2014, Hawaii in 2019, South Carolina in 2021, and Virginia since 2023. In between, we've traveled from Cancun to Ghana, Sierra Leone, Iceland, and across Europe.
Our story so far
- 2014New homeWe move to Utah
- 2016TripOur honeymoon in Cancun, Mexico
- 2017TripGhana, Sierra Leone & London
- 2018TripOur babymoon in Iceland
- 2019TripSan Diego, California
- 2019New homeWe move to Hawaii
- 2021New homeWe move to South Carolina
- 2023New homeWe move to Virginia
- 2023–24DeploymentMichael stops in Souda Bay, Greece (twice)
- 2025TripLondon, Germany, Austria & the Czech Republic
- NextNew ordersWherever the Navy sends us
Why we started this blog
Every time we got orders, we went looking for a family who had actually lived there. We didn't want a weekend visitor. We wanted someone who knew which neighborhoods work with kids, which beaches are worth the drive, and what to do on a rainy Saturday. This blog is that, for every place we've lived.
