Our Story
Our Beginning
Hey, we’re Colin and Meg and along with our girls, Charlotte and Liv, are on a mission to travel to 50 countries & are currently at #32! We are so glad you have landed here on our website as we have loads of incredible travel content here for you to explore. If you are a new friend, we’d love to share a bit more with you about our story how we landed in the travel industry.
2021 was a big year for us when we were selected by Airbnb to join the Live Anywhere program. Out of 314,000 applicants, our love for travel and desire to raise our girls through that lens led us to leaving our home for 10 months of full time travel with a 2 and 4 year old. (Watch how it all happened below!)
Knowing that this was such a once in a lifetime opportunity, we kept our cameras close and shared our journey with photos and videos that resembled more like home videos. We started a YouTube channel and posted regularly on Instagram but it didn’t take long for that to change however. About 2 months into our travels, we asked the question “Can this actually be a business that can support our family?”
We were living in an apartment in Dubrovnik where we decided to launch Colin + Meg - a digital publishing company that told stories of family adventures whether they were 30 seconds or 30 minutes long.
Our Videos
While you won’t see us jumping out of planes any time soon, you can catch us walking upon a wild herd of Pygmy Elephants in the jungles of Borneo, watching the sun rise over Angkor Wat, swimming with turtles in the Yucatan, kayaking in the Ha Long Bay, road tripping through Tasmania & on Safari in the Masai Mara.
We LOVE the experiences travel lends itself to and even more when our kids get to enjoy them too.
Photography
You can find the bulk of our travel photography through our partnership with our friends at Unsplash/Getty Images. Our photos has over 30 million views and is one of the top contributors for Unsplash+ where he delivers beautiful images with legal protections.
“When I moved to the U.S by myself at 19, I didn’t ask my Dad if I could bring his camera with me. He obliged but it was one of the best decisions I made as a teenager. Photography helped me graduate college, bought my first car (it was a 2000 Hyundai Elantra!), and continually inspire us to be more and more creative. Photography that has emotion and warmth is what our clients and audience have really enjoyed and we truly enjoy the process of creating art that inspires.”
Our Podcast
In the Summer of 2023, we launched our Podcast called “Did You Pack Snacks?” What we thought would be a 6-episode experiment quickly turned into a crowd favorite and was reaching far more people that we hoped. Plus, it’s the most FUN thing that we do at C+M. Recorded in our guest bedroom! studio, our goal is to chat about all the highs, the lows, and the long miles in between of traveling with kids.
