New Friends & The Next Big Thing(s)!!
There are nothing like cool nights, sticky marshmallow fingers and music around a camp fire. The rain let up just long enough for us to have a quiet weekend. We did plenty of laughing, played a few...
View ArticleThird Culture Kids: A Collision Of Worlds
People often ask us if there’s a social deficiency for our children, being raised on the road, weaving in and out of so many different cultures. It’s a serious question, and it deserves serious...
View ArticleMama Bus Math
This is a post that my friend Lois wrote for The Mama Bus about our upcoming cross-continental drive. We leave in just nine days, she and I and our 11 kids, to take the American road trip of a...
View ArticleThe Calm Before The Storm: Awaiting the trip & Irene
The blue skies above New England are dazzling. Puffy white clouds dot the sky. A light breeze blows. The calm before the storm, in more ways than one. As the whole eastern seaboard braces for the...
View ArticleBig Fish, Big Boats, Big Fun: A Visit To The Discovery Islands, BC
In which we visit Uncle Josh and Hannah catches TWO fish on ONE hook. You’ve got to see it!!
View ArticleHave you met these people? (The Adams Family: A Photo Essay)
I love this picture… it looks like cycle touring heaven… …but I’ll tell you what I was thinking. I was thinking, “These people better be worth it…” and mentally grumbling (again) about the Czech...
View ArticleTravel With Young Kids Is Not A Waste!
Last night I made beef stroganoff over rice, with a side of lemony snake beans, crusty bread, salad and kiwi for dessert. This was a banner meal for us in Thailand as coming by good quality beef is a...
View ArticleKangaroos, Kookaburras & Kevin: Western Australia Road Trip Day Two
We knew we’d love Australia, but we couldn’t have predicted how much! We’re kind of critter collectors: amateur biologists of sorts. We’ve long kept nature notebooks as part of our science studies and...
View ArticleHome Sweet Camper: Welcome to New Zealand!
We’ve been talking about this journey for years. Ever since my parents bought a little camper van and knocked around the islands for six weeks or so a decade ago when Josh and his sailboat wended there...
View ArticleNew Zealand… New Adventures
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 little camper and knocked around for a bit when my brother...
View ArticleOn Boys Showering: I can’t make this stuff up
The day Ezra was born, Tony looked up from his cherubic little face and sighed, “I got the short end of the public bathroom stick.” Three to one, he definitely did. Some of my favourite stories over...
View ArticleRV Life: Small space living!
It’s been almost one month since we arrived in New Zealand. We’re beginning to feel as if we’re finding our feet. Our ears are becoming tuned to the funky accent. We’ve learned a new compliment of...
View ArticleHappy St. Patrick’s Day from Waitomo, NZ
New Zealand is a fairy world of ferns. The magnificent ferns of Hawaii are a cheap imitation. Every forest tramp feels like hiking through a forgotten world, or the Jurassic Park movie set. What would...
View ArticleYou have to really WANT to do this…
“You really have to WANT to do this, don’t you, Dear?” Ann’s words have echoed in my mind as her sweet, octogenarian face has pleasantly haunted my afternoon walks. We wandered slowly through the...
View ArticleWindy Wellington & A Happy Easter
This time last year we were hunting eggs on the beach on Cape Cod, celebrating with Grammy and Gramps, packing for the big push to Asia… and, oh yes, I broke the axle on the van. This year we...
View ArticleFrom Christchurch to Akaroa: Camped at the top of the world
If you were to send your five year old out into the front yard armed with three jumbo bags of cotton balls and the instruction to distribute them evenly across the entire green space, the result would...
View ArticleOf Burns, Boys and Bleh
It has been a week of mishaps. It started on the eve of our anniversary, when I scalded my arm. It was dumb, really. We were parked at an angle in the middle of this one horse town. I was heating up...
View ArticleCamper Vanning New Zealand: How To
We’re closing in on the end of our sixth month in New Zealand. I have to say, it’s been one of the pleasantest places we’ve had the privilege to travel. It definitely falls near the top of our “easy to...
View ArticleBarossa Valley & Buddies
Sometimes people ask us about the social aspects of longterm travel. What do we do about our kids’ need to socialize? How to we create community on the road? What do we do about maintaining...
View ArticleCoober Pedy: Outback, opals & a didgiridoo
Coober Pedy reminds us a bit of Matmata, Tunisia. The underground homes carved deep into the arid, barren landscape are similar; the only thing missing are the berber ladies grilling flat bread and a...
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