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…
And We’re Off! Land Cruise 2016
September 7th marked the first day of Travel-School 2016-2017. We are organized and ready to go ~ as we start this school year off in Newport, RI. After two weeks of ‘homeschool’ at home, we will fly west to see some beautiful parts of our country. Our schoolbooks are packed, along with abundant, fresh art supplies,…
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work – on Land and Sea
We are loving summer – Newport is a magical place. The weather is perfect, the people are wonderful. We are lucky to have a strong, connected “land life.” With Cortado out of the water getting some minor TLC (New Rubstrakes! Varnish! More Shelves! ACDC Inverter?) and other improvements, we can be totally focused on terra firma. This summer…
Perspective? Yes Please
Well, we finished! June 24th marked our last day and we officially closed the book on our 2015-2016 school year. We arrived back in Newport in early May in time to catch all of the Baseball and Softball Little League season as well as Spring Travel Soccer. Wrapping up school at home was perfect. Being…
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