Stories from the Road

rv travel, empty nesters, what is worldschooling?

Wonder Year 2.0 – Empty Nesting in an RV

We’ve decided to become full-time RVers again–without the kids this time, except when they visit our “home” Airstream RV from far away.
Hiroshima, world schooling, what is worldschooling? Paper cranes

Stories From the Road: Paper Cranes in Hiroshima

The A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August, 6 1945 at 8:16am; Sadako Sasaki died on October 25, 1955. It is estimated that more than 10 million cranes are offered each year at the Children’s Peace Monument in Hiroshima.
Maoming SWI, return visit to the orphanage

Stories from the Road: Visiting a Chinese Orphanage

This is one of our family’s moments in China, written the day after our visit to Lucy's orphanage in 2018. Travel can be truly healing. 
RV parked in Utah

Four Worldschooling Memoirs to Get Your Wheels Turning

These four memoirs, each written by a worldschooling parent about their family’s journey, paint the picture of just how remarkable long-term family travel can be. 

Stories from the Road: Our Alaskan Neighbor

Alaska is about futures, not pasts. We never talked about jobs or education. Only once did his talk deviate from practical matters and venture into the philosophical. It was when I asked him why he decided to go it alone in the Alaskan wild.
baby in camper

Stories from the Road: The Page Family’s Journey to Belize

"We knew from the onset that we were looking for community, of the more intentional sort. But also adventure! With everything that it entails - the exciting as well as the challenging."
Girl with chocolate fish in New Zealand

Stories From The Road: Slow Travel New Zealand

"After being on the move for the first four months of our Wonder Year, it felt nice to hunker down. We were doing what is known as “slow travel,” setting our roots as deep as they could go with our three month visa."
Sunset from the South Rim

Stories from the Road: Glen Canyon Dam

Then we met Hance, another 9-year-old worldschooler traveling with his mom through the US for an entire year, just like us.