Post-Trip Depression
How does it feel to return to the real world after having taken a year out to travel, having executed on a life’s dream? Well, in a word, it sucks. There I’ve said it. I don’t expect your sympathy or even empathy. I’m writing this post today to round out the how-to series on our Read the Rest…
Family World Trip Logistics Part IV: Travel Planning and Booking
We traveled for a year and now we’re home. Our project is completed. Now I feel comfortable to write about logistics and comment on what worked (or didn’t) as a reference for anyone else out there planning to do an around the world trip with or without children. Planning A Round World Trip We actively Read the Rest…
Around the World and Back with Stories to Tell
Family World Trip Map Legend: 9%, 26 of 263 Territories In Progress Not Yet Started © worldmapmaker.com | Travel Insurance The map above shows all the countries we visited on our family world trip. Now that we’re back, I’m realizing that we have thousands of photos to share and hundreds of stories to tell about Read the Rest…
Family World Trip Logistics Part III: Schoolwork
We traveled for a year and now we’re home. Our project is completed. Now I feel comfortable to write about logistics and comment on what worked (or didn’t) as a reference for anyone else out there planning to do an around the world trip with or without children. In today’s installment I’ll cover what is Read the Rest…
Family World Trip Logistics Part II
We traveled for a year and now we’re home. Our project is completed. Now I feel comfortable to write about logistics and comment on what worked (or didn’t) as a reference for anyone else out there planning to do an around the world trip with or without children. Insurance. It’s such a boring word, totally Read the Rest…
Family World Trip Logistics Part I
We traveled for a year and now we’re home. Our project is completed. Now I feel comfortable to write about logistics and comment on what worked (or didn’t) as a reference for anyone else out there planning to do an around the world trip with or without children. All questions relating to trip logistics fall 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…
Origami In Hue
Just inside the square of the main palace at the Citadel or Imperial City in Hue, Vietnam, there are a pair of massive bronze urns filled with rain water. Unsurprisingly, as with fountains and other such water features in any city, people throw loose change into the urns for good luck. When CAM peeked into 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…
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