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Three of my earliest childhood memories took place in Iceland in 1969, when our parents took three of the four boys (Christopher was just one) on a sub-arctic adventure. All three memories revolve around personal embarrassment in and around water: swimming in the hotel pool in my tighty-whities cuz my Mom forgot to pack my […]

(Emma) Today, during our first dinner of our trip I had something that had a well….. different taste. It was so different that you might even be able to consider it a FUNKY FOOD! We were at SAE GREIFINN. It was a sea food restaurant; and so we ordered sea food. One was minke whale! […]

(Reis) We left for the trip today. WOW! We did an overnight flight out of Logan Airport to Reykjavik. 9:40 P.M to 2:30 A.M with pillows and blankets. We’re in Iceland now and having a nice peaceful day. And I look forward to the rest of this wonderful, once in a lifetime trip.

76 titles on Kindle downloaded to 2 Kindles and 4 Kindle for PC readers. How did we get here? *    Take the required reading list from DSMS for Grades 6&8 +    Get fabulous input from home-school mentors DianeS and LauraB –     Subtract all the titles not on Kindle (classics appear to be […]

We are very lucky to have fine physicians and fine friends who are fine physicians. They have loaded us with advice and gear in anticipation of the nasty fall in Peru or the nastier infection in Borneo. In addition to the standard Malarone and Cipro and Lomotil, we are armed with syringes to inject a […]

People often ask, “how do the kids feel?” So I asked them…[pro-player type=’video’]http://www.vimeo.com/12508810[/pro-player]

One of the most popular questions (especially from female friends) is, “What do you pack?” Fortunately, most of our trip will be spent in warm climates with occasional time at cooler altitude, in crisp nights or on Antarctic glaciers. So it’s all about the layers. And giving up on fashion… Technical fabric shirts, shorts and […]

Q: “Are you bringing a tutor?” “Will the kids stay back a year?” “Who’s going to teach them?” A: No. No. Dana (and Greg). Those who know me will not be surprised to learn that the “Six Explorer Global School” home-schooling curriculum is now a 30-page document that includes: Commentary on balancing academic learning, coaching […]

37 days left. Today it’s cameras, tomorrow it might be clothes. So far we have accomplished clothing, shoes, most of the electronics, diseases/medicine, reading, and school. But still we have to get baggage and many other vital necessities. We’re so close yet so far away. In 2 days it will be 5 weeks! Just thinking […]

We need a phalanx of inoculations. Kids get 7 or 8. Dana and I get something like 12. Seven times we bravely field trip to Mass General’s Travel Immunization and Infectious Diseases Department to get little doses of rabies, Japanese Encephalitis, Yellow Fever, Typhoid, and other unpronounceable critters shot into our bodies. The nurses and […]