“Creativity is not a talent, but a way of operating.” John Cleese Painting is my passion. Studio space onboard? I wish! I am often asked if I am able to paint while living onboard Cortado. The honest answer is easy: No. However, I do find myself completely “creative” on Cortado. While I miss oil painting outdoors and in…
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About Socialization
SOCIALIZATION. When talking about our travel school, often someone will comment to us in a hushed tone, “But what about socialization?”… I cringe at the question, but understand the concern. Children are inherently social creatures and luckily ours make friends of every age, color, religion and nationality wherever we go. Travel-Schooling for us, involves about seven…
Every Piece Counts
Travel-School means we experience a lot of freedom in our days. We can choose if we want our school-days to be more structured (as they are lately) or rife with adventure. Some of our days are not much unlike a ‘regular school’ day, in that we start early and work our way through subject, after subject. Some…
Hope, Change and Happy Thanksgiving!
Over the past few weeks, we have felt a need for quiet reflection and being with nature. Cortado has been the perfect place to do this. We have worked so hard to get here – this magical place of low-stress, high-energy and uninterrupted adventure. Our mission is to extract the good from each day and learn all we can…
Wealth is Not About Things you Own – It’s About Things you Do
“We believe that true wealth is defined by the experiences we have and the people we share them with” – Tony Rey. When Tony first started his business, Rey Sailing, Inc., he was the only employee and racing was his only service. Since then, Rey Sailing has grown, by expanding into a new entity called Cloud10 Racing. This growth…
You Are What You Read
Reading is an all-consuming pastime for our family. We devour books individually, but travel-schooling has allowed us the chance to read together as well. WE LOVE THIS. When we read together, we find so many instances to relate literature to our daily lives. Our dinner-time discussions are rich with literary reference and empathy towards characters in real-life. Current…
Education is…
Education is not a straight, narrow path. There are many ways to educate and evolve our children in today’s world. Three weeks in Truckee, CA has been inspiring as to how this region of small towns nestled in between the Sierra Nevada mountains and the sandy shores of Lake Tahoe are making a difference in education….
Safe and Sound
Whew. Well, the good news is that we are safe in BEAR COUNTRY, tucked happily into the Sierra Nevada mountains. Tony is racing TP52’s in Portugal, the kids are thriving in school and life is normal in our beautiful, albeit temporary, Lake Tahoe house. – The not so good news this week was Hurricane Matthew. As you can…
Oh, no. We did NOT approve that message.
It has been brought to our attention by a good friend that an un-wanted, un-approved political ad was inserted by WordPress at the bottom of our recent post. We did not realize that could happen. It means enough to us that we reach out to our friends and family who read our posts and explain that we had…
Out of Experience, Comes Character
Travel School for us starts each year with two solid weeks of home-schooling at home. We use the time to get into the groove of school, discuss our goals for the year and prepare, academically, for the places we will visit. Aristotle said in his book of Poetics that “decisions define character.” Each day of our travel-school represents…
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