Our family of five just completed a Great Adventure travel year.
Over the course of nine months of travel, we went to Zambia:
On safari with Malama in South Luangwe National Park
Malawi:
In Longwe (not Lilongwe) for a school construction project
Shire highlands (we got out of the bus and WALKED for this portion of the trip, because Pam just felt better doing it that way…)
On Lake Malawi
South Africa:
On Robben Island, with Table Mountain behind
At elephant sanctuary
Mobile, Alabama:
Hogsmeade:
Ecuador:
(Emma peeled off at this point to do an independent internship, so we were down to four for a while…)
Peru:
Lake Titicaca
Machu Pichu (Emma’s back with us for a bit!)
Hobbiton, The Shire:
Hobbiton
New Zealand:
Tasman Glacier
Australia:
Singapore:
Ireland:
Leprechaun Museum, Dublin
Canada:
Vancouver Island
Alaska:
We’d actually had quite a few global adventures even before this trip, but we didn’t have the foresight to get many pictures with all five of us. Now we know better.
Here are a few that I was able to dredge out of files…
Yellowstone, 2004
San Diego, 2005
Viet Nam, 2007
Costa Rica, 2011
Israel, 2011
Japan, 2012
Seeing us all lined up in chronological order like that really drove home how quickly the kids are growing up. Egads! I’m so grateful that we were able to do this now before they’re completely done.
Family Gap Year 