Tag: Travel with teens
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Family travel, essential alone time
The one thing a person must have is time alone. When we decided to travel together as a family, we didn’t consider how much time each of us would require. Some people can get by on very little and others need a much larger dose on a more regular basis. We did not really discuss…
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Our kids have outgrown us
It was bound to happen, at some point. During the course of this travel year, our teenaged kids have grown taller than their parents. Our son has inched up over everyone else in the family and our daughter is not the shortest. They were each very happy when they passed those milestones. My husband not…
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Teenagers are teachers, if we listen instead of lecture
“Coming home with straight A’s is fine, I’ll accept that, but what I’d rather have you do is come home and tell me something amazing that you learned in the spirit of doing something good for someone else, come home and tell me some really dramatic failure that occurred as you were trying to solve…
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I like being first at the gate
For some people being first at the gate means you have arrived super early and will suffer a long wait for your flight. True. But there is something nice about sitting in the quiet area of the airport with no one else around, yet. Possibly, if it is a full flight, the whole waiting area…
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Giving up almost everything I know for sure, to travel the world
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -Lao Tzu As we near the end of 2017, here are some of the highlights, the steps we have taken leading us to our Christmas…
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It took me a year to find freedom, a love story
You know that feeling you get when you move into a new house and everything around you, the smells, the light, the physical space, are so different to what you are used to? You imagine living in this space as a new chapter. Or the first day in a new school where you don’t know…
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Do we plan our legacy, or does it happen to us?
We bought a seven-day pass to the Angkor Archeological Park. Nobody was standing in that line up. We walked right up to the teller. It turns out that most people visit for one day. Some stay for a 3 day pass. But we are planning to go big. Our plan is to see a lot,…
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The curse of Taurus the bull
I don’t live by the predictions of a daily horoscope. In truth, I’ve only looked at my zodiac sign description, maybe a dozen times in my whole life. But, every time I do, some of the words are burned into my mind. Especially the ones that ring true. All the rest, are quickly and easily…
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When you can’t tell the season by looking out the window
I could have also called this ‘chasing summer’, which is another we feel about it. We are literally trying to avoid winter this year. Hopping from place to place. First to stay in the warmth, during the Fall season of the Northern hemisphere. Then not jumping the gun too early in the Spring, by coming…
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Everyday life, away from home for a year, with teens
I have to admit, it has been tough to establish a daily routine, which works equally well for the 4 of us. All the planning in the world, ahead of time, will not prepare you for what it is really like to be away from home. All the previous family vacations, do not equate to…