So now it begins...

The road (un)traveled – besides being a catchy title for this blog and an homage to the book “The Road Less Traveled” by M. Scott Peck in which he described the ingredients for a healthy, happy and fulfilled life,  it also describes the rather intrepid adventure my family and I have embarked on just a few months ago.

Before this adventure started, we spent the last nine years in Chicago and Evanston (home to Northwestern University) being part of a wonderfully supportive Chicago Waldorf School community. Yet, a loss in our family earlier in the year, the desire to spend more time with our kids and homeschool them, and a yearning to see more of the world and learn from diverse global cultures convinced us to pack up our stuff and hit the road for a year starting in June 2015.

Leaving our community behind, I felt blogging was the best way to stay in touch with friends and family as we traveled the globe. It also would give me a forum by which to not only share our adventures with everyone, but also a way to share the challenges I would face and the learning I would discover traveling as a family of four for a year. So while I may have started this a few months late, this is my blog…and these are my stories.