diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index b1b2ac55b..83dd3fe34 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ install:
   - "python setup.py build_ext --inplace"
   - "mkdir -p corpora/en"
   - "cd corpora/en && wget --no-check-certificate http://wordnetcode.princeton.edu/3.0/WordNet-3.0.tar.gz && tar -xzf WordNet-3.0.tar.gz && mv WordNet-3.0 wordnet"
-  - "export PYTHONPATH=`pwd`"
+  - "export PYTHONPATH=`pwd` && cd .."
   - "python bin/init_model.py lang_data/en corpora/en spacy/en/data"
 
 # run tests