Family World Trip Math Program
Schooling is the first thing most people ask about when they learn about our upcoming family world trip – and rightly so. We would be negligent parents if we hadn’t considered the educational needs of our boys (now almost 10 and 14) when we decided to do this trip. As I mentioned in an earlier Read the Rest…
Hosteling with kids
In the past couple of years as we’ve been preparing for our family world trip, we’ve been trying out bits and pieces of our planned travel style from traveling with backpacks using public transit to, most recently, staying in hostels. We’ve done this to introduce our children to this style of travel (or remind them Read the Rest…
An Expat In America
I moved to the U.S. as a green card holder in 1995. I became a naturalized citizen in 2000. However, I still consider myself Irish and I’m sure I’ll never think of myself as American. Coming up to this 4th of July, I’ve been thinking about our time living here especially since we’re in the Read the Rest…
Twelve Weeks And Counting
I could feel the adrenaline pumping, the knot building in my stomach. I had to force myself to take a deep breath and focus on my book – I was only riding the bus home from work for heaven’s sakes! But it was hard to stifle the excitement. This past Saturday, June 5th 2010, our Read the Rest…
Biographies For Kids
Every time I visit somewhere new with my children, I try to introduce them to the place we’re going to visit in advance by reading about the country and it’s history. In planning our family world trip, this is more complicated than usual since we’re planning to visit many countries over a longer period of Read the Rest…
Photo Friday: Travel Vaccinations
If you read my post on medical preparations for our family world trip earlier this week you might have been wondering how our kids actually did with the shots. I think this photo sums it up nicely 🙂 CAM, being a little older was more stoic – at least for the photo! Like what you’ve Read the Rest…
Family World Trip: Medical Preparations
I wrote the Health And Safety chapter in the Traveling With Kids book. To do that, I used my own experiences of traveling pre-kids and my experiences traveling with my children in Europe and South America. I spent a lot of time reading the excellent information on travel medicine on the Centers For Disease Control Read the Rest…
Western China And The Silk Road
We’ve always planned to include visiting China on our family world trip. Until last weekend this wasn’t much more than an item on the list of countries we plan to visit. Then, while flipping through maps in the excellent Wide World Books and Maps travel store, my husband threw me a “how about we go Read the Rest…
Family World Trip: Medical Poker
Disclosure: I’m writing this post before meeting with the travel doctors or telling our children that they’ll be getting multiple shots over the next few months in preparation for our family world trip. I expect the doctor to be competent and professional. I expect my children to absolutely lose it when they realize what’s going Read the Rest…
Family World Trip And Schooling
We have started detailed planning for our family’s around the world trip. Since we’ll be taking CAM and BigB out of school for this trip, the decisions about how to manage schooling on the road are the first and most important part of our pre-trip planning. I hope the sections below are helpful for anyone Read the Rest…
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