Reuniting with our worldschool family is always a highlight of our travels. We originally signed up for a worldschool hub in Vietnam and Thailand with three other families we met in Bulgaria, but the organizers canceled the hub. We decided to come together in Asia with those families anyway. We will be in Hoi An for one month. We are…
Vietnam is our first meet-up spot with our worldschooling friends. In total, we are four families, seven kids. We all met earlier this year in Bulgaria. We originally signed up for a worldschool hub in Vietnam and Thailand that got canceled. We decided to go anyway and make a worldschool hub. The Vietnam visa process is not easy. There is…
Hua Hin is a beach town three hours south of Bangkok. We plan to spend a month there later this year with some friends, but we wanted to check it out first. We hired a car to drive us from Bangkok. It was an easy ride with one bathroom stop, but we will try the bus for half price next…
We arrived in Bangkok after a 17-hour flight to Singapore, a four-hour layover, and a 2.5-hour flight from Singapore to Bangkok. Lucas and Henry looked forward to the long flight. They loved it. Michael told them to stay up for the first half of the flight, which took off at 11:40 p.m. All of the legs went smoothly. It was…
Southeast Asia was supposed to be our first stop when we started traveling four years ago. We had tickets to Japan and then to Bali to participate in a Worldschool conference called Family Adventure Summit. We had plans, and then they changed. Two months before our departure, Michael was diagnosed for a second time with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Michael had Hodgkin’s…
We went back to Dubai for a few days after our cruise. We spent one night in a hotel near the Mall of Emirates. It was fun wandering around the mall until check-in. Henry bought Harry Potter playing cards. We checked out Ski Dubai but decided not to try it out this time. Our hotel was near exotic rental car…
A new country and a new continent! Asia! We arrived in UAE from Cyprus. We flew into Abu Dhabi and explored there for two days before embarking on a seven-day cruise. We stayed in the commercial business district of Abu Dhabi. There were plenty of shops and restaurants, and it was close to the harbor. We visited the Sheikh Zayed…