A couple of weeks ago, a friend sent me a new blog to read. As I've mentioned before, I love finding new blogs to follow, and travel blogs are by far my favorite. This blog is called World School and it is a personal travel log of a family of 5 (a single mom from Dallas and her 4 children, all under the age of 15) who are taking a year-long journey around the world. They left their home in July of this year, and they are visiting 34 countries on a trip that will take 365 days. Their goal is to see schools all over the globe and to learn about cultures other than their own. Check out their blog here
If It's Tuesday, This Must be Turkey
What happens when one family gets inspired—really,really inspired—by our Dream List? The answer: a year like no other
Three Decembers ago, a Dallas mom of four named Sue Sandford opened up her Condé Nast Traveler and read an article by Editor in Chief Klara Glowczewska that changed her—and her kids'—lives forever.
The piece detailed Glowczewska's once-in-a-lifetime, ten-minute, $4,250 venture into Egypt's Nefertari Tomb, normally closed to the public but opened to her and her family thanks to the contacts and pull of travel specialist Jim Berkeley of Destinations & Adventures International in Beverly Hills, California. Sandford found herself bewitched. One day, she vowed to her children, they'd visit Nefertari themselves.
But Glowczewska's trip got Sandford thinking about travel in general—its purpose, its possibilities, its potential to teach like no school ever could. "I wanted the kids to step through the looking glass to see history firsthand," Sandford says, "all while realizing how much is beyond our borders." And so, two years later—with dreams of Egypt still in her head—the single mom devised a yearlong journey that would introduce her clan [Josh, 10; Becca, 13; Emma, 8; Sue; and Mc-Kenna, 14] to arts and languages around the globe while affording them a perspective hard to find in a classroom. She dubbed her project World School, its motto "You can't have a narrow mind and a thick passport."
Read the rest of the article here
Video the family made before they left:
1 comment:
that would be. your most awesome friend.
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