I have a new definition for wanderlust: when a picture looks just like where you live now, and you still want to go there. Looking at some of the incredible Argentinean scenery captured by the Tveits on their sabbatical, I imagine summer here in Vail, Colorado (even better than winter, if you ever get the… Continue Reading »
We hope you teachers out there are taking note that your profession is perhaps the best represented among intentional travel families. Is it because of the multitude of job opportunities for English-speaking teachers? or that teachers tend to be driven more by passion than most? or that teachers value learning through experience? Oh, but I… Continue Reading »
Time Well Spent? Yep, it’s that time of year again. But this year why not let the 20-somethings blow their paychecks to get into a bar to watch a recording of a ball drop in New York? You’ve got some planning to do! Matt Scherr Get busy living or get busy dying. – Stephen… Continue Reading »
This is a really hard job sometimes. We encourage people to send us their family sabbatical stories, which they do. And we know our followers read when they can but don’t catch every issue. We, however, have to read every single true sabbatical story that comes through. This week was particularly hard reading about the… Continue Reading »
Bending Spoons Remember that part in The Matrix when Neo talks to the bald, little monk boy who’s bending spoons with his mind? He tells Neo that the secret is not to try to bend the spoon, but to realize that…there is no spoon. Riiiight, little monk boy. But in hearing accounts of family sabbaticals,… Continue Reading »
You can’t go home again Leaving home for college or…just life…is a rite of passage. And though you return to it, home is never the same again. Or rather, you can never experience it the same again, because you will never again be the child who experienced it before. When returning home, we may find… Continue Reading »
