Well our journey has begun. We have been on the road a little over a week and it is now, our first full day in Cartagena. I woke up early this morning, someone playing very loud dance music on or near the beach. I'm not sure where it's coming from but it was quite an effective alarm clock, ahhh Colombia. Makai is still sleeping, despite the driving beat and as I look at his …
Why Travel When Mak Won’t Remember?
Chronologically Makai was born and then we decided to travel perpetually."Why travel now when he's so young when he won't remember anyway?" is a question a lot of people have when we talk about our decision. I have never asked that question of myself as we work to make our dream a reality. Many other questions were asked and answered of us by us but that one was not one of …
Getting Carried Away: Early Lessons in Unschooling
To much of a good thing? I didn't think there was much truth to this saying when it came to unschooling! Letting Makai run with an idea or pursue an interest all day or for weeks, letting him decide the direction for learning is what attracted us to unschooling in the first place. People learn best when they are truly interested in the subject matter, wanting to spend time …
More On Why We Want This Travel Life
Why We Want This Travel Life The decision to sell just about everything we own and travel for a yet to be seen amount of time is not easily understood by a lot of people. It hasn't been easy for us to explain either. Part of my difficulty in explaining is my own preconceived notions about what people will think of the reasons I have for wanting this change, which include …
Why We Choose to Unschool
Unschool. It looks like an example of bad spelling. Even as I begin this post the little squiggly red line that appeared when I typed “unschool” is prompting me to fix my misspell. As it is, there is nothing made up or mistaken about the word “unschool”. In fact the term “unschooling” was coined in the 1970s and used by revered educator John Holt who is known as the father of …