Est. at the kitchen table
Monthly Letters From a World Explorer
The world is a little closer than you think.
Mongolia. Patagonia. The Faroe Islands. Svalbard.
You’d love to take your kids there. Maybe someday you will.
But for now, you’ve got a house to run, a dog under your feet, dinner to make and a life you love.
So Rex brings the adventure to you.
Every month, a letter arrives from somewhere remarkable — written around whatever your child can’t stop talking about right now.
You read it together on the couch. Find the place on the map. Make something from the local kitchen. Let your kids ask a hundred questions.
No plane tickets required.
A little adventure. A little wonder. A lot more time being together.
No account. No card. Just open the first letter and see where Rex takes you.
Rex Wilder
Field traveler · naturalist · terrible at packing light
We can’t all drop everything and go
Wouldn’t it be nice?
To wake up tomorrow and say, “Kids, pack your bags. We’re going to Mongolia.”
But most of us have spouses, pets, mortgages, work, laundry, doctor’s appointments, groceries, school and a whole life we actually love.
So we don’t go. And that’s okay.
We can still explore.
The Expedition Post was made for the families who want their kids to see the world — even if right now the world they’re exploring is the one from the kitchen table, the couch or the front porch.
Because sometimes you don’t need a plane ticket. You just need something that makes everyone look up from what they’re doing and say, “Wait… Rex is where?”
How it works
Step 1
Tell Rex about your kid
Their name, age and whatever they can’t stop talking about — horses, volcanoes, baking, comics, sharks.
Step 2
A letter arrives from somewhere rare
Mongolia, Patagonia, the Faroe Islands, Svalbard. Never the same place twice, and always built around what your kid loves.
Step 3
Open it together and go
Read it on the front steps. Cook the recipe that night. Find the place on the map. That’s the whole thing.
Rex keeps up
No curriculum built for the kid they were three months ago.
Follow Whatever Your Child Loves Right Now
Dinosaurs in August. Horses by October. Something else by December — and that’s fine. Rex doesn’t plan the year in advance. Each letter is written around whoever your kid is that month, so you’re never stuck finishing something they’ve already outgrown.
Aug
Dinosaurs
Oct
Horses
Dec
Something new
Meet Rex
He’s out there having the adventures we’d love to have.
Rex sleeps rough, eats whatever a local family puts in front of him, gets hopelessly distracted by interesting places and somehow always ends up helping with dinner.
Every month, he writes your child from somewhere in the world.
But Rex isn’t a curriculum. He’s the excuse to stop what you’re doing for a little while.
To curl up on the couch. To pull out the globe. To make dinner together. To hear your 7-year-old explain something they’re suddenly an expert in. To watch your 10-year-old get completely lost in a story.
The kids get Rex. You get that little pocket of time with them.
And for a while, the whole family gets to go somewhere.
Rex is a fictional character. No real adult corresponds with your child, and there is no way for anyone to write to them.
There’s a little secret behind every adventure
The learning follows the curiosity.
Rex doesn’t set out to teach a geography lesson. He sets out to tell your child about a place.
But when you’re wondering where the Faroe Islands are, why people live the way they do, what they eat, how they make a living and what life is like there… you’re already doing geography, social studies, reading, writing and home economics.
That’s the beauty of it. The learning follows the curiosity. Not the other way around.
And if you want help taking the adventure further, the Membership quietly has all the planning waiting for you.
You don’t have to become the teacher for one more subject. You just get to be their mom.
How much adventure do you want?
Start free
The Expedition Letter
Your first letter is free.
Tell Rex what your child loves and he’ll take them somewhere in the world.
Read it together. Follow the story. Find the place. Make the recipe.
No account. No card. No commitment.
Just one little adventure to see if Rex belongs at your kitchen table.
Go deeper
The Membership · $9/month
Want to turn that curiosity into a whole month of learning?
The Membership is the grown-up layer behind every letter. Rex has already thought through the geography, reading, writing, social studies, home economics and more.
You get the ideas, prompts, activities and resources.
- Unlimited letters Follow every new obsession.
- One child or the whole family Different ages. One adventure.
- Your Letter Shelf Every letter saved and ready whenever you are.
No curriculum calendar. No catching up. No guilt. Just follow the adventure wherever it goes.
A note from the mom who made Rex
Why Rex exists
I’ve always wanted to see the world. I’ve dreamed about Mongolia. Patagonia. Faraway places where the language is different, the food is unfamiliar and you have no idea what tomorrow is going to look like.
I’ve had Lyme disease for 30 years. Some months I’m doing wonderfully. Some days, I can’t walk. My kids have grown up knowing that. They’re some of the kindest, most patient kids I know.
And while I’m getting stronger every day, the dream of packing up our family and traveling the world just isn’t our reality right now. My husband is a firefighter. We have a house, pets, work, school and a whole life we love.
So I started wondering: what if we didn’t have to go all the way around the world to bring some of it home?
I imagined a traveler my kids would love. Someone who would write to them from Mongolia and Patagonia and all those places I still hope to see. Someone who’d tell them what he ate, what he saw, who he met and what strange thing happened that day. Someone who would make my kids say, “Mom! Rex wrote us again!”
And that’s how Rex came to be.
Now, when a letter arrives, I get to put everything else down for a little while. We curl up together. They gush about Rex. They find his latest place on the map. And I get to be exactly what I wanted to be when we chose to homeschool: their mom.
I can’t promise my family will ever see every corner of the world. But we can keep wondering about it. We can keep exploring. And we can bring a little bit of that world home to our kitchen table.
I made Rex because I wanted an adventure too. I hope he brings one to your family.
Founder, The Expedition Post
You don’t have to go far to go somewhere.
Maybe someday you’ll take the kids to the Azores. Maybe you’ll stand together beneath the northern lights. Maybe you’ll eat dinner in a little village you’ve only ever seen on a map.
But until then… Rex has a letter waiting.
Open it on the couch. Read it at the kitchen table. Take it onto the front porch. And for a little while, go somewhere together.
Your first adventure is free. No account. No card.
The Expedition Post — a little adventure for families who want to see the world, and each other.