exploration

Best Websites Home Schooling Unschooling World Schooling

World schooling is using the world as your classroom. Whether we are exploring Australia, or in the centre of a pyramid in Egypt, we believe in world schooling. Education Sites When traveling, it is often good to find new sites to keep your child stimulated. Here are some suggestions and also some free online classes sites. […]

Banos Ecuador Chiva Truck Bus to The Volcano

Banos Ecuador Chiva Truck Bus A Chiva Truck Bus is fun – at least for a single-parent family like ours here in Banos that is. Ours had disco music and flashing lights! We met a lovely couple from Quito and they speak English – thank goodness as we had no idea what was going on. […]

Teleferico Volcan Pichincha Quito Ecuador

We have been told to set half a day aside to see the volcano as we set out on our excursion to the Teleferico Volcan Pichincha. Getting There So from our Inn accommodation in Quito, we grab warm clothes, food, and water and head out for a cab. There is no bus to this place as […]

Monserrate Cableway – Teleférico de Monserrate Bogota, Colombia

Monserrate Cableway Teleférico de Monserrate, Bogota, Colombia Whether you call it a cable car, funicular, teleferico or gondola, the 1929 Monserrate Cableway is worth a visit when visiting Bogota (which was originally a railway until 1955). Bogota is full of life and we’ve just enjoyed the last few days exploring the historical quarter of Bogota and visiting Divercity. […]

Isla Blanca Panama (near Portobelo, Caribbean Coast)

Isla Blanca Panama (near Portobelo, Caribbean Coast) A Day Trip To Isla Blanca Panama Today we have been invited to join the team of Wisconsin folk to go to Isla Blanca Panama. There are a few others from the mission base who also come along for the day. The teams have just come back from […]

Route 66 – Flagstaff then on to Las Vegas

Route 66 – Flagstaff then on to Las Vegas Today sees us finally hitting Route 66 again, and we discover a town named Williams. I am pretty miffed, as it is just a stunning retro town. It has been only 30 – 40 miles down the road from where we based ourselves. It is where […]

A Road Trip Around Viti Levu, Fiji

A road trip around Viti Levu, Fiji These are the last two days of our very memorable single parent travel journey in Fiji as we’ve just flown from Savusavu. We need a trip around Viti Levu (or Vitae Levu), Fiji. So as ‘explorers’, we decide we will hire a little car from Nadi and drive […]

Less Is More – So Poor Yet So Happy – A Fijian Village

Less is more – so poor, yet so happy The weekend has arrived on Savusavu island, and it is time to explore the unknown, so we hired a little 4WD vehicle where we learn a valuable lesson about how locals can be so poor yet so happy.  We hope to find a beach in a […]

Labasa Fiji – an Indian Town

Labasa Fiji – an Indian Town Yesterday we woke at 5:30 a.m. in preparation to walk to town, and get the early bus to Labasa (pronounced Lambassa).  We have been house sitting and are part way through, based in Savusavu. Our friends Marilyn and Dave who own a farm here were also on the bus […]

Fiji – The Land of Festivals

Fiji – The land of Festivals As we set off to explore the Fiji, land of festivals, we are informed there is a huge parade and Hibiscus Festival in Suva, and so our plans are promptly changed. Being on a single parent travel adventure has taught us to be flexible and appropriately make changes if […]

Deuba, Fiji – Vita Levu

Deuba, Fiji – Moving into the unknown Today I wake up for the day’s adventure of single parent travel, and reality hits home – we are off on a new adventure.  We are late! The Kava and drinks from last night had relaxed me. This was too much a luxury that our luxury travel experts […]

Fiji Fire Dancers

Fiji Fire Dancers On our last day at the resort, we wake up to a sign that tonight is a celebration. We quickly booked a dinner table with a good view of the show of the Fiji fire dancers. Luxury travel experts would praise us for choosing the best spot for an anticipated good time. […]