About Us
Working Without Borders is a unique travel company that makes it possible for parents to work remotely from the world's most beautiful places, as part of a community of entrepreneurial, creative global citizens, while the kids broaden their minds, hearts and horizons through once-in-a-lifetime educational experiences.
You’ve probably heard of co-working tours for digital nomads who are singles and couples. Working Without Borders focuses exclusively on life-changing journeys for families.
We are a home for parents who love to travel, value meaningful human connection, and want to make a difference. Who know their kids are only young once. And who are determined to make the most of these precious years.
Our Founder
Sam Keller's passion involves using entrepreneurship to foster sustainability, cross-cultural understanding, and personal growth.
During the past two decades he has worked with various facets of the real estate industry for this purpose. From eco-resorts in the Amazon to solar systems in South Africa, he has played the role of financier, developer, and technology provider.
Over the course of his career, Sam has worked with startups, multilateral organizations, corporations, and NGOs in many different countries. Whether speaking at the United Nations or appearing on The Today Show, he has provided leadership for cutting-edge initiatives seeking to generate financial, social, and environmental benefits.
Many years ago he served as a Fulbright Scholar in Costa Rica and earned a MPP degree from Harvard University.
Now Sam is excited to create unprecedented travel adventures for small groups of knowledge workers who are in the throws of raising kids. In fact, he and the participants co-create the experiences together, helping each parent find what they’re looking for in the pursuit of freedom, meaning and growth for their family.
Our Story
It begins with a dream. A long-shared, long-deferred sunshine daydream, imagining we could live abroad, co-working remotely in an exotic paradise, with our kids.
It took a pandemic to make the dream come true for us. Nearly a year ago, we made our big move as a family to Tahiti.
Lo and behold, experiencing freedom and joy in French Polynesia gave rise to a bigger dream. We looked for ways to “pay it forward,” helping parents like us to live and work remotely in a beautiful location, among a community of like-minded families.
Each family and situation is unique. And when it comes to our kids, we are all cautious, risk-averse. So we started with a simple, doable idea. Design a pilot trip to Tahiti, a place we know and love, that would give parents of toddlers to teenagers a way to explore the reality and feasibility of remote working.
It would be, first and foremost, a family adventure. A once-in-a-lifetime experience. But also a potentially life-changing glimpse into an alternative future.
At the same time, we didn’t want to limit ourselves merely to the South Pacific. The desire to live and work remotely abroad is shared worldwide, realized by millions, each family on their own journey. So we wanted to connect parents around the globe who were considering international remote working with those who are living the dream.
To share their experiences. To impart knowledge. To help make it happen.
And so the dream expanded.
Gradually it became clear we needed to accommodate a broader range of families:
- Parents with infants.
- Single moms and dads seeking a supportive way to travel.
- Divorced parents seeking new ways to connect with their kids.
- Couples considering raising kids abroad.
We would start by building an online community of remote workers with kids. We’d bring together virtually all those parents intrigued by or engaged in living and working without borders.
Over time, we envision an in-person and virtual community of fellow travelers, families who long for freedom and better work-life balance. Who want our kids to stretch their hearts and minds with firsthand experience in the cultures and ecosystems of our world. Who know that family life is a journey from Me to We, enabling us to transcend the limits of our egos and achieve a greater sense of purpose and aliveness with those we love.
Join us on this adventure, continually expanding our comfort zones and realms of possibility, beyond borders, in pursuit of a dream that reaches the shores of a new, better reality.
Welcome aboard.
Who Are You?
You’re a free-spirited parent who has reached a point in your life where you can let your kids out of your sight as long as you’re assured they’re safe and happy. You place high value on the life-education of your children and time enjoyed with them.
You’re in a profession where you can work online and do your job from anywhere, at least for a week or so at a time. Or you have a week or more of vacation time and the freedom to try a new and exciting lifestyle in a lush location with your family.
The daily office routine isn't always for you. But you don’t relish the isolation of working at home, or the distractions and limitations of working at a café.
You’re intrigued by the notion of a “fourth space” for co-working and collaboration -- a community of freedom-loving world-travelers living and working around you, even as you each do your own thing, immersed in your online projects, conversing with colleagues across the globe.
It’s all the more intriguing if that state-of-the-art workspace is nestled in a gorgeous, culturally-rich slice of paradise. You delight in meaningful conversations with like-minded people, fellow parents and professionals seeking an optimal work-life balance. You like exchanging insights and sharing experiences. You love the idea that your kids can play and learn together, enjoying the precious gift of experiencing an exotic new culture, appreciating diversity and non-material joys.
For your children and yourself, you seek an enriched day-to-day reality that deepens your empathy, broadens your firsthand knowledge of the planet, and enhances your understanding of what’s possible in this life.
Your best self transcends borders.
For you and your family, at least for a brief magical while, a vibrant haven on a small spot of the wide world can become your working space, your learning place, your social hub, and your playground.
Even a short trip working and playing in paradise can open your eyes to the practicality of what is possible. Planet Earth becomes the canvas upon which you can paint a better future for yourself and your loved ones.
For in the end, life is not about what we accumulate, but what we contribute. What we can give the most to our children is our precious time, a loving space, and enriching opportunities, especially when they’re young, open to life-affirming change and growth.
Who they spend time with will shape who they become.
So let's afford our kids the gift of our care and attention in an amazing, soul-enriching place.
Let's co-create a global community that plays the game of life at a whole new level.
It’s time to grow, baby.
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