Bucket List Family Reveals Hacks for Easier Traveling with Kids — Fighting Jet Lag, Packing and More (Exclusive)

Jessica and Garrett Gee, better known as "The Bucket List Family" are sharing their tips and tricks for family travel in a new book

The world of travel has become increasingly stressful over the years — and bringing along the kids can come with an extra layer of challenges.

Jessica and Garrett Gee, better known as "The Bucket List Family," have become pros at family travel, jet-setting worldwide with their three young kids and hitting more than 90 countries after deciding to sell all their belongings and permanently hit the road in 2015.

Along with their three kids, Dorothy, 11, Manilla, 9, and Callahan, 6, the couple has traveled around the globe, explored new cultures, made memories as a family and learned how to successfully travel as a group, all of which Jessica discusses in her new book, Bucket List Family Travel, out now.

"Back in 2015, we were in a unique situation where my husband was finishing college and had an app and sold it to Snapchat. So all of a sudden we were these 28-year-old millionaires not really knowing what was next in life," Jessica tells PEOPLE. "I didn't know what I wanted for my future. So I was like, 'Let's do a little bit of traveling, see what's out there, experience the world.'"

"Those were the famous last words. That's when a little bit of traveling ended up as three years of full-time travel, almost to a hundred countries and a career out of traveling with our children."

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The pair, who tied the knot in 2009, took their first trip when their daughter Dorothy was almost 3 and son Manilla was 11 months. "We went to Fiji. It quickly became a favorite and I think maybe five times we've been back," says Garrett.

The family journeyed around the Pacific Southwest, visiting Tonga, then New Zealand and Australia. Eventually, they traveled around for three years before settling down in Hawaii in 2018, around the same time they welcomed their third baby, as Jessica and Garrett "wanted some consistency" for their kids.

"We wanted our kids to have friends. We wanted our kids to go to school. So we bought the house in 2018, moved in the fall of 2018 and we've been there ever since. Now they do go to school and every school holiday, every fall break, every spring break, every summer break, we're usually on the road," adds Jessica.

With tons of travel experience under their belt, the couple is offering other families some helpful parenting hacks to make for an easier vacation experience.

"My number one is just choosing your attitude. So much stuff can go on and travel days can be long and miserable and stressful. So the kids are going to feed off of you 100 percent," she tells PEOPLE. "Something we did, especially when the kids were younger, was we had these bedtime stories with the kids."

"We would tell the stories of our next adventure. So instead of, 'We're traveling across to Europe, it's going to be an 18-hour travel day and it's going to be long,' it was an adventure. 'We're getting on a magical airplane and we're going to go see these cool castles in England and do all this.' We just tried to make everything as magical as possible, so the travel itself was an adventure and not anything to be dreaded."

The mom of three also suggests getting the kids involved in their packing.

"Have them pack their own little backpacks. Have them choose their snacks or a little toy. Just getting them involved gets them super excited for the trip ahead and just more engaged," she recommends.

When it comes to dealing with jet lag, the couple has plenty of experience with combatting the issue and now has it down to a science.

"We have a really good system down, where anytime we travel to a new place, the day we arrive it's very important that no matter how tired we are we will not nap," Garrett explains.

"Because as soon as we take a nap, it's over. So we will not take a nap that first day and we'll stay awake until the sun goes down. That first day we'll do as much as we can outside so that your eyes literally see the sun go up, go across the sky, and set," he continues. "When your eyes see that, it just does wonders to reset your internal system. By that time, you're exhausted, so you quite often sleep through the night and then you wake up reset. So we're pretty good about the first 24 hours being able to hard reset no matter where we travel."

With that said, the couple still emphasizes the importance of giving your kids "a ton of grace." "Everyone's going to be a little tired and cranky that first day or two," adds Jessica.

Next up the family of five will be traveling on a National Geographic boat for 25 days to Antarctica, the Falkland Islands and South Georgia.

"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and we're so excited," says Jess.

"As a family we all love wildlife and so a lot of our travels are based around what wildlife we can experience," adds Garrett. "We're very excited."

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