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 try not to visit Arizona in the summer, but this year it was our only chance to visit Michael’s family. We braved the heat and had a fun time. Melissa and Mike have a great house and a pool, and they recently added an RV garage, casita, and pickleball court. We played a lot of pickleball in the morning…
We had a wonderful time with my dad and Kay in North Carolina. We have a good rhythm when we are there. Lucas and I often play tennis with my dad and his tennis group. We play pickleball in the driveway. We walk a two-mile loop almost every morning. Vivian spent a few more days with us after the beach.…
The first official Cousins’ weekend took place in Charlotte in 2014. My brother Seth and his family met us in Charlotte, North Carolina at our cousin Josh’s house. We spent a weekend hanging out at their house and swimming at their community pool. At that time Josh and Kristen only had one son. Now they have three kids. Almost ten…
We coordinated a family beach week in Seabrook Island, South Carolina. Not everyone in our large family could make it, but there were twelve of us. We stayed in a beautiful house, steps from the ocean. Seabrook Island is a private community about an hour south of Charleston, South Carolina. The island has golf and tennis. Sea turtles lay eggs…
It’s official. Lucas is a teenager! Lucas turned 13 in June. He had two requests for his birthday. He wanted to play pickleball and see a Braves Game. We made it happen even though we were on our way home from Michigan. We stopped in Cincinnati the day before Lucas’ birthday because the Braves were in town playing the Reds.…
Henry was excited to pack up and go back to Camp Kanuga this summer. He had a great time last summer at his one-week starter camp. This year Lucas went to Camp Kanuga with Henry for nine days. Lucas went white water rafting. Henry did rock climbing. Michael and I stayed in North Carolina with my dad while they were…