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And we got on an airplane bound for Dublin, Ireland. And we left it
all behind.
The truth is that it wasn’t as hard as you might think. Many of
the “serious concerns” we had before we hit the road have proven
quite trivial, and the challenges we expected have been less, well…
challenging. The girls are fantastic little travelers. They have been
excited and engaged and inquisitive since day one (even if only
for new bunk beds or playgrounds or beaches or new and exotic
variations of ice cream). One of the biggest concerns, perhaps not
surprisingly, was the continuation of the girls’ education, so we
planned and studied and readied ourselves for a full scholastic
regimen. (Wendi was an elementary school teacher in San Francisco
while I was in law school at Cal so education is very important to us
and we felt we could do a passable job as substitute teachers, at least
temporarily.)
We openly admit that our efforts at nomadic homeschooling have
unfortunately been less successful than we planned. But we firmly
believe that both girls are getting an education of a different (and
important) sort as they see and experience diverse cultures, peoples,
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