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August 25, 2011 in blog, North America, Travelogue, United States
This is the day that you don’t want to be me. This is the day that my life of continual adventure and international travel is not sexy. This is the […]
August 25, 2011 in blog, North America, Travelogue, United States
This is the day that you don’t want to be me. This is the day that my life of continual adventure and international travel is not sexy. This is the […]
July 28, 2011 in blog, Inspiration, Travelogue
Imagine what it would be like to enter university as a freshman, full of hope, your sights set on your long term goal: Graduation and a degree in “doing hard […]
May 13, 2011 in Africa, blog, Education, Travelogue, Tunisia
We were recently asked, for an interview: “What is the most educational thing you’ve done with/for your kids?” This was our answer: Hitting the road and traveling full time […]
May 4, 2011 in blog, North America, Travelogue, United States
I miss deciduous forests when we’re elsewhere. Don’t get me wrong, I love rain forests, and high cloud forests, and the interesting mix of vegetation in between that populates the […]
April 27, 2011 in blog, North America, Travelogue, United States
I carried my handmade corn basket in my lap on the airplane. It made for a strange carry-on, filled with earphones for the kids’ Spanish program that we didn’t want […]
April 22, 2011 in blog, Guatemala, North America, Travelogue
cruising down the road motor humming steadily the soundtrack of life Tony wrote me a book of haikus for Christmas two years ago. The second one applies to […]
April 18, 2011 in blog, Guatemala, North America, Travelogue
We ran, like crazy people, through the Houston airport, vainly hoping there’d be time. There wasn’t. As if in one last homage to the Central American vibe our plane left […]
April 15, 2011 in blog, Guatemala, North America, Travelogue
Antigua is a zoo tonight. The whole town is swollen in anticipation of semana santa and the streets are positively oozing people. We’re safely tucked into Hotel Don Ismael, […]
April 10, 2011 in blog, Guatemala, North America, Travelogue
One week from today we’ll be waking up in Chicago. It’s always a weird feeling, to get to the point in a journey where it’s time for a major […]
April 5, 2011 in blog, Guatemala, North America, Travelogue
Cool mountain air rushes in through the open window of our rented van. High among the mountains of Guatemala we wind along the paths, going higher and higher. Our destination […]