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Kara and Nate

Kara and Nate are a married travel filmmaking duo from Nashville, sharing life on the road through country-spanning adventures, unusual places to stay and endurance challenges.

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Overview

Names: Kara and Nate Buchanan
From: Nashville, Tennessee
Together: High school sweethearts, married in 2013
Started traveling: January 10, 2016
Early breakthrough: 2018 Shorty Award for Best in Travel
Original goal completed: 100 countries by December 2019
Channel milestone: Celebrated 4 million subscribers in November 2024

Mini bio

How it started.

Kara and Nate were high school sweethearts from Nashville who married in 2013. Kara taught school, while Nate ran a small printing business. Planning their honeymoon introduced them to collecting travel miles and points. On January 10, 2016, they left for what was meant to be one year abroad, beginning with a one-way flight to Tokyo.

Finding their audience.

The videos began as a way to share the trip with friends and family. Six months into traveling, they decided to try making the channel a business so they could stay on the road. Their audience grew sharply in 2018, the year they won the Shorty Award for Best in Travel. They completed their 100-country goal in December 2019 and released a documentary about the journey in January 2020.

A changing life on the road.

When international travel stopped in 2020, they bought a converted van and explored the United States. Their later videos brought together unusual accommodation, long journeys and physical challenges. In November 2024, they celebrated four million subscribers with a retrospective. Their 2026 uploads include a school-bus Mongol Rally series and a pregnancy announcement.

Creditschronological, newest first

2026Mongol RallySeries creators and hosts
2026The Race That Finally Broke MeCreators; Nate competes at Dead Cow Gully
20244 Million Subscribers! (how we got here)Retrospective creators
2021We Lived in a $650,000 EarthRoamerHosts and creators
2020100th Country DocumentaryDocumentary creators
2017We Slept on the Side of a Mountain | Peru Sky LodgeHosts and creators

Awards

Shorty Award: Best in TravelWinner at the 10th Annual Shorty Awards in 2018.

Quotes

Thankfully, things don’t always go as planned.Kara and Nate, About Us

Looking back on a planned one-year trip that became their career. Source: https://karaandnate.com/about-us/

Trivia

Before leaving home, they collected more than two million travel miles and points.
Nate tracked their travel expenses and published income and expense reports as the channel grew.
Nate turned down a six-figure job offer to keep pursuing travel and YouTube.
Their Mongol Rally bus is called Bertha.