Haircuts on the Road
Today’s post is guest-written by my very witty husband, Murph (aka WanderDad) on a traumatic if efficient barbershop experience here in Kizkalesi, Turkey. One of the simple necessities of life that becomes fraught with peril on the road is haircuts. When you don’t share a language, you rely on grunts, gestures and animated hand signals, Read the Rest…
Five Essential Items For Family World Travel
For our year-long trip, we didn’t pack much specialized travel equipment. The criteria we used was that anything we packed could be lost or stolen and should be easily replaceable.
A Road-Schooling Day
It struck me recently that I’ve said a number of times that road-schooling is hard work but that I’ve never really explained why this is so. It seemed like a description of a typical “school day” would be a good idea to remedy this. The diary below describes a day in Emei Shan, a mountain Read the Rest…
And One More Thing
CAM and I were leaving the sprawling MBK mall in central Bangkok. “That’s another reason why I hate this trip” he said. He was behind me, so I couldn’t see the look on his face, but I could tell from the tone of his voice that he wasn’t being serious. He is a master curmudgeon. Read the Rest…
Mud Floors With A TV
Every family develops it’s own vocabulary, shorthand words or phrases that recall shared memories, nicknames, descriptions and explanations.
RTW Travel – How Much Does It Cost?
How much to travel the world? This post on our costs is way overdue… To travel around the world was my childhood dream. The restlessness behind such a dream is one of the few personality traits that I share with my husband. We left Ireland in 1995 planning to spend “just a couple of years” Read the Rest…
Bokeo Village Faces
We’ve all been downed by a cold/flu for a few days so instead of a post, today I’m sharing some photos of the villagers which we took on our way out of the Gibbon Experience . Enjoy! We met these local boys on our way back into the village. They were having a grand old Read the Rest…
Brothers Together In Penang
There are times when my boys fight with each other just for the sake of it. There are times when they go out of their way to bug each other. And then there are moments like this. Unprompted, unscripted and priceless. Head on over to DeliciousBaby for more travel-themed Friday photo fun. Like what you’ve Read the Rest…
A Day In Penang
The overnight train from Kuala Lumpur to Penang arrives at the Butterworth station between 5am and 6am. The train station is tiny with just two platforms and a small office.
A Day In Kuala Lumpur
We arrived in Kuala Lumpur early in the morning (Air Asia flights are dirt cheap but seem to always be between 6am and 8am regardless of where you’re flying from or going to).
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