What if motherhood didn’t mean giving up your freedom?

In Travels with Toby: A Single Mom’s Journey Beyond the 9–5, Marnie shares her true story of walking away from convention and choosing a radically different path — raising her young son through travel, lived experience, and worldschooling instead of the traditional grind.

After divorce and a brief relationship that left her raising Toby alone, Marnie found herself confronting a painful truth: suburban life and societal expectations were suffocating her spirit. Rather than conform, she made a bold decision. She swapped predictability for possibility — trading routine for an RV and eventually a passport.

What follows is a deeply personal memoir of:

Budget travel with a child

Worldschooling and experiential learning

Spiritual growth through adversity

Navigating trauma, reinvention, and resilience

Learning to trust your own inner compass over social conditioning

From road trips across North America to global wandering on limited means, this is a story about redefining success, motherhood, and freedom.

This memoir is for anyone who has ever felt trapped by the 9–5 narrative — especially parents who wonder if there is another way.

Because sometimes the greatest gift we give our children… is the courage to live authentically ourselves.