The Cromwell Courthouse Caper

May 5, 2013 in New Zealand, Oceania, Travelogue

“I wonder how much air is in there and how long it will last…” It all started innocently enough. The children were playing happily on a rainy Otago winter’s afternoon. [...]

One Family, Five Years, Countless Adventures

March 23, 2013 in Birthday Party, Inspiration, New Zealand, Oceania, Travelogue

Today is a very special day for us. It is the anniversary of our fifth year of full time travel. Five years ago today I was not having my best [...]

An Epic Adventure You Can Take, RIGHT NOW!

March 20, 2013 in Birthday Party

Nancy has done the impossible. And I don’t mean cycling from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina over three years with twin boys who broke the Guinness World record for [...]

Birthday Party Giveaway: Inspiration from the Denning Family!

March 15, 2013 in Birthday Party

We forget sometimes that our life is weird. We have the great privilege of belonging to an online community of several dozen long term traveling families who have become very [...]

Boxes Full of Love

March 8, 2013 in New Zealand, Travelogue

The excitement of the week… We got packages!! A huge, “Thank you!” to our friend Rhonda and her family who made a pile of the boxes in her foyer for [...]

New Zealand… New Adventures

February 22, 2013 in New Zealand, Oceania, Travelogue

  New Zealand…. This is a place that has been on our bucket list for a very long time. Ten years ago, or so, my parents came over, rented a [...]

Western Australia Route 1: Road Trip!

February 11, 2013 in Australia, Oceania, Travelogue

The number one out of Perth headed south looks a lot like the wilds of Arizona, and occasionally like the north loop around Chicago, with the highway divided around the [...]

Australia: First Impressions

February 8, 2013 in Australia, Oceania, Travelogue

Having left Asia in an all fire hurry, tired of the press of overpopulation, ready to eat something that doesn’t include noodles or rice, and having spent 10 months, essentially, [...]

Bali-A homecoming of sorts

January 31, 2013 in Asia, Indonesia

  Bali has never been on my list of places I wanted to visit. It’s got a nice deep footprint on the tourist track, and the idea of beaches bodies [...]

Visiting Sulawesi? Be sure to connect with our friend Dodo Mursalim

January 30, 2013 in Asia, Indonesia, Inspiration, Travelogue

We spent a couple of weeks researching Sulawesi and found very little information for independent travel on the island. Then, I lucked into Dodo Mursalim’s contact details on a TripAdvisor [...]