Background For anyone that isn’t familiar with our story and is reading this blog for the first time, there are a lot of posts to read that detail our journey (I’m sure you have some tim...Read More
Reflection of a life-changing adventure and choice of life for 18 months. Excitement, intrigue and trepidation of what lies ahead. A family of four that broke free of the suburban shackles and headed ...Read More
As our journey comes to an end, our emotions are all over the place. Reflection of a life-changing adventure and choice of life for 18 months. Excitement, intrigue and trepidation of what lies ahead. ...Read More
'Was this lifestyle ever going to be permanent? - I’m not sure any of us knew the answer to that. We just felt the urge to move, explore, educate and escape the suffocation of suburbia. One day at ...Read More
Rico’s story I have been travelling for 18 months now and it’s time for our journey to come to an end. During the entire journey we’ve … Been to 13 countries; Had 2,976,438 mosquito bites!...Read More
Everyone has a breaking point, and looking at the calendar on the fridge to see we had 4 more weeks in Caño Negro, was ours. The living conditions were really testing; mosquitos, damp everywhere, two...Read More
After arriving back in San Jose, we made contact with Anne regarding our dog sitting volunteering post up in Caño Negro in northern Costa Rica, close to the Nicaraguan border. The plan was to d...Read More
April 28th 2019 marks our anniversary of leaving life in Cape Town. I’ve asked Becky, Rico and Tiana to write down their thoughts and feelings from being on the road for one year. This blog is a...Read More
Leaving Cape Town wasn’t as difficult as I had envisaged. The trip had turned out to be the perfect tonic for our kids knowing that there was still a life for us there, their friends hadn’...Read More
Vietnam had been great for us. Some routine, stability, familiarity, new friends, warm people but still encapsulated in a simple easygoing lifestyle. As we’d been forewarned, a month in Hoi An...Read More
The sleeper bus delivered us to the deserted streets of Hanoi early in the morning. We made our way to the train station and sat being watched by a few early birds also waiting for the trains to...Read More
Our time in Vietnam was limited due to having to return to Bangkok for Rico’s follow up tests and then the ‘World Schoolers’ summit in Chiang Mai. With this in mind our trip had to be plan...Read More