We would head out for the sand after breakfast and search out falafel or gyro wraps for lunch before heading back to our apartment for an afternoon nap and break from the sun.Īt the Copa, Copacabana. 93: Beach Hopping in Budva, MontenegroĮvery day was a new beach in Budva. While staying in Tallinn, we took the ferry over to visit our friends Anita and Karen in Finland who took us for electric scooter rides around the city culminating in the city’s famous new library. We met up with two family friends of ours from our Vietnam years and spent the day at Margaret island flying kites, throwing the frisbee and having a snack lunch in the sun while the kids played, husbands snuck away for a beer at the refreshment kiosk. #travelwithkidsĪ post shared by Nomadic Edventures on at 8:00pm PDT 95: Picnicking with friends in Budapest, Hungary The Illusion museum was great for our daughter and the public parks and jungle gyms giving her a place to burn off some energy. Had a blast sightseeing in #Vilnius #lithuania Chocolates, craft beer and a beautiful old town to explore. While we were at it, Lisa suggested I write about the experience. But, over the course of 4 years we outlined, researched, prepared, saved and we went. The challenges of health care, storage, our pets, let alone designing a curriculum and saving for such an endeavor seemed next to impossible. I think back to when we first conceived of a living a year abroad and what an insurmountable task planning such a trip would have been. The need for education has never been higher. Still, we have much more work to do for the causes of justice, equality and tolerance. In a time where the world seems increasingly divided between ‘us’ and ‘them’ political factions and growing movements like ‘Black Lives Matter’, the bonds of love that we strengthened with friends ( new and old) remind us that there is good in the world. To our readers: thanks for all your commentary and to all our friends who put us up at their houses and apartments: we can’t begin to thank you enough for your hospitality and friendship. Thank you to all of our friends and readers around the world. A budding teenager she is definitely turning out to be. She has some open mic video sessions coming up and despite her surfer/snowboarder father offering to play accompanying guitar to her singing, I apparently present a high risk of embarrassing her. She is currently learning ‘The White Stripes’, 1-4-5 music theory and has an upcoming master class with a Led Zeppelin theme. She enrolled in a ‘School of Rock’ class that meets twice a week with a private teacher for one session and a group jam session for the other. Since finishing 4th grade, Ava has taken a keen interest in music and despite completing her yearly curriculum, has started songwriting and recording for fun. Dinner time conversations are accompanied with more grist and I can die happy knowing we lived a year of our lives to the fullest and didn’t let it slip by the wayside of complacency or fall victim to the rigamarole of life’s routines. “ Remember when.” is a common starter one of us will lead with, out of the blue, as the others join in and reminisce with growing smiles. It’s in these stories that our travels live on. Keillor was right: “ In the end, there are no answers. For us as a family though, we have not seen a vision or had an epiphany that brought us Nirvana or a moment of enlightenment. Through international education, Lisa and I have been on an overseas trip for nearly 20 years now, but for our daughter Ava, the trip was a great ‘leveler’ and brought her a new found sense of humility which is great for the budding teenager. Through it and through the people you meet, one gains a heightened sense of awareness, adaptability and tolerance of a larger world.
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