THE 777 EXPERIMENT
The years are moving fast. The memories don’t have to.
You want the people you love to remember more than busy schedules, unfinished lists and everyone looking at separate screens.
You want inside jokes. Little traditions. Unexpected adventures. Stories that begin with, “Remember when we…?”
But between the cost of family activities, the time it takes to plan them and the daily work of simply keeping life moving, meaningful moments can become something we keep meaning to create.
Adventure Year makes them easier.
For $79, your family receives a full year of ideas designed to help you connect, explore, create, contribute- and capture the stories you’re creating along the way.
No elaborate plans.
No expensive vacations required.
No pressure to turn every moment into a masterpiece.
Just a steady stream of sparks that helps you turn the life you already have into a story worth remembering.
AN APP DESIGNED TO HELP YOU PUT DOWN THE APP
My Gnome on the Roam was created for people who care deeply about connection- but don’t always have the time, money or ideas to create it.
Your Adventure Year gives you simple ways to:
Connect more meaningfully with the people you love
Explore your home, neighborhood and wider world
Create simply for the joy of creating
Contribute to your community
Begin traditions your family can return to
Save favorite adventures for later
Capture your memories in the in-app journal
The compass shows you where you’re going.
The journal reminds you where you’ve been.
YOU DON’T NEED MORE TIME. YOU NEED A SPARK.
“We don’t have enough time.”
Adventure doesn’t have to take an entire day. Some of the moments people remember most begin at the dinner table, in the backyard, during the drive home or in the few ordinary minutes before bedtime.
“Everything is so expensive.”
Meaningful memories aren’t measured by the price of admission. Many adventures use what you already have, take place close to home or cost nothing at all.
“I never know what to do.”
That is exactly what Adventure Year solves. Instead of searching endlessly for family activities, you’ll have ideas ready whenever you need one.
“I’m afraid we won’t use it perfectly.”
You don’t have to.
Choose what fits. Save what you love. Repeat your favorites. Skip what doesn’t belong to your family. This is not another obligation-
it is a source of possibility.
$79 FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR
That’s about $1.52 a week to help turn ordinary time into stories, traditions and a lasting family legacy.
WHO IS ADVENTURE YEAR FOR?
FOR PARENTS
You’re trying to raise children who know how to wonder, make, care, contribute and feel fully alive in a world that constantly pulls their attention toward a screen.
Adventure Year helps you protect those deeply human parts of childhood—without adding another enormous project to your list.
FOR FRIENDS AND GIFT-GIVERS
Give a family something they can experience long after the wrapping paper is gone.
An Adventure Year is a gift for:
New parents and growing families
Birthdays and adoption days
A perfect holiday gift for anyone on your list
Grandparents and grandchildren
Families beginning a new season
Families who have been through a difficult season
Anyone who wants more time together and fewer things
You aren’t simply giving them an app. You’re giving them a year of stories waiting to happen. Memories being made. Legacy being built.
FOR GRANDPARENTS
Your greatest gift may not be something they can hold.
It may be the stories you tell, the places you explore, the things you teach them and the traditions they will one day carry into families of their own.
Adventure Year gives you reasons to keep making those memories—whether you live nearby or have to create connection across the miles.
FOR SCHOOLS, ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS
If your work supports children, families, learning, wellness or community connection, you can help more families find their way back to one another.
Partner with us to:
Sponsor Adventure Years for families
Bring the program to your school or organization
Include adventures in family-engagement initiatives
Support grandparents, caregivers or underserved communities
Create custom community, tourism or employee-family experiences
Share the 777 Experiment with the people you serve
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN 777 FAMILIES BELIEVE IN MAGIC?
Not magic like waving a wand and making everything easy.
The kind that happens when we look up from our screens. Try something new. Watch a sunset. Laugh together. Make something simply because we can. Help someone because they matter.
That is the magic My Gnome on the Roam was created to protect.
Now, we’re inviting 777 families to help us create more of it.
WHEN WE REACH 777
Because this is Team Gnome, we add a little extra magic to everything we do.
SOoooooooo, if we:
Reach 777 by December 31
If 777 qualifying Founding families join our Adventure year by 11:59 p.m. Central Time on December 31, we’ll award:
77 of those families LIFETIME APP-ACCESS PRIZES
Reach 777 by Black Friday (November 27,2026)
If we reach our goal by Black Friday weekend, we will give:
111 founding families LIFETIME APP-ACCESS PRIZES
If we reach the earlier goal, the 111-prize level replaces the 77-prize level; the prize levels are not combined.
WHAT DOES LIFETIME APP ACCESS MEAN?
Each selected winner will receive lifetime access to the On the Roam Everyday Adventures app associated with Adventure Year.
That means:
No monthly subscription fee
No annual renewal fee
Continued access for as long as My Gnome on the Roam offers and supports the applicable app or a substantially similar successor service
Lifetime app access does not include the physical products or additional benefits included with an Adventure Society membership. It also does not include separately priced apps, products or services unless expressly stated.
For challenge families only:
$79 for the entire year
(Normally $89)
That’s 12 months of guided challenges, micro-adventures, connection prompts, and real-life magic — built right into the app.
One small investment.
A year of memories.
And if your family loves to travel or explore beyond your neighborhood…
THIS IS BIGGER THAN A LIST OF THINGS TO DO
The goal is not to fill every minute.
It is to live inside your life while it is happening.
To help your children remember how it felt to belong.
To give grandparents new stories to tell.
To make it easier for families to choose curiosity over routine, creating over consuming
and connection over distraction.
To capture the tiny moments that may not seem important today—
but become the stories everyone asks to hear again.
Maybe 777 families can’t change the whole world but they can change 777 little worlds.
And I have a feeling that is how the bigger kind of magic begins.
WHY FAMILIES TRUST MY GNOME ON THE ROAM
My Gnome on the Roam has been recognized as:
The “Anti-App” by The New York Times
Creative Child Magazine’s Family App of the Year
A five-star app by the Educational App Store
MESH Certified for supporting children’s mental, emotional and social health
Created by educator, mother and founder Anne Armstrong, My Gnome on the Roam exists to help busy families build a legacy—one adventure at a time.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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Adventure Year includes one full year of On the Roam Everyday Adventures, with ideas for connecting, exploring, creating and contributing; family challenges and quests; favorites, non traditional holidays; Tiny Traditions; and an in-app journal for capturing your stories.
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No. Adventure Year is a resource, not a responsibility. Use it as often as it serves your family. Save ideas for later, repeat the ones you love and let go of anything that doesn’t fit.
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No. Some adventures can become an afternoon outing, but many fit into ordinary pockets of family life.
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No. Many ideas are free or use things you already have. When an idea could involve a purchase or outing, you can adapt it, save it or choose something else.
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Yes. Grandparents can use the ideas when they are together with their grandchildren or adapt many of them for connection across the miles.
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Yes. Use the gift option to give a family an entire year of ideas, stories and experiences.
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Yes. Schools, family-serving organizations, employers and community partners can contact us about multiple memberships, sponsorships and custom collaborations.
CONTACT US ABOUT PARTNERSHIPS
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No. Purchasing does not improve your odds. Each eligible person may receive one sweepstakes entry, whether entering through a qualifying Adventure Year purchase or the free entry form.
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New, qualifying Adventure Year purchases made during the campaign. Free sweepstakes entries do not move the purchase counter.
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Everyone who purchases an Adventure Year will still receive the full year of access they purchased. The conditional lifetime-access prizes will not be awarded unless the community reaches the goal described in the Official Rules.
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No. Lifetime app access covers the applicable app only. It does not include the Adventure Kit, banner, pins, books, Gnome Gear or other Adventure Society benefits.
YOUR FAMILY’S STORY IS ALREADY HAPPENING
You do not need a perfectly planned family life.
You do not need a giant budget.
You do not need to wait until everyone has more time.
You only need a place to begin.
Your Adventure Year gives you a new beginning every day.
Email us to explore partnership options!