Wonder Year: A Guide to Long-Term Family Travel and Worldschooling

Part inspiration, part how-to, this guide to embarking on a life-changing, long-term journey filled with education and adventure—a trailblazing approach known as worldschooling—helps you transform your dream into a well-planned reality for your family and weaves travelogues and photos from families sharing worldschooling experiences throughout. Original. Illustrations.
Learn how to pack up the family for a life-changing, long-term journey filled with education and adventure.If you’ve ever dreamed about an epic family adventure and heading out on the road for a few months or more, Wonder Year is for you. Part inspiration and part how-to, this book demystifies the seemingly outrageous prospect of embarking on a long-term family trip and using the world as a classroom for your kids—a trailblazing approach known as worldschooling. Packed with practical information, Wonder Year offers invaluable guidance to help transform your dream into a well-planned reality for your family. Woven throughout the book are evocative travelogues and photos from families sharing worldschooling experiences. Paddling a wild and scenic Oregon river, stargazing in New Mexico, and visiting World War II sites in France are just a few of the colorful stories that will no doubt stir you to envision your own journey.This book will show you how to:Explore funding options for long-term family travel—be it a summer, semester, year, or moreChoose where to go and navigate the logistics of getting thereDiscover alternative education methods for teaching your kids on the road Travel responsibly and sustainablyIdentify ways to earn income while travelingStay healthy and safe along the wayTap into a global community of worldschoolers and family adventurersYou’ll learn that extended family travel is more attractive and attainable than ever before, and remote living and learning are not actually remote at all. Wonder Year will help you slow down, simplify, and wonder at all the world has to offer.