“I can still feel the excitement as the five of us boarded the plane to Costa Rica in September 2021. We had no idea what lay ahead of us, but we’d taken the plunge. I knew that together, we’d be OK - whatever our adventure threw at us,” explains Katie Campbell, 40. The teacher and her husband Campo, 46, took their three young daughters Taba, Kiki and Indie on a year-long adventure visiting 26 communal living hubs.
“Campo and I had always been interested in more communal ways of living. Not the yurt-dwelling, hippie communes of the 70s, but modern, intentional communities where people share resources, chores, cooking and childcare responsibilities to live in an inter-dependent way.
