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…
Tag: Homeschooling
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…
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…
The Future of Travel School
This spring, living on our boat in the Bahamas has noticeably changed us once again. It is palpable; we can feel the change in our ways and attitudes. When we are traveling, I imagine we radiate a sense of free-spirited calm. Our time in the Bahamas was a slow-burn-balance of extreme beauty, quality family time and nature. We found it necessary to re-adjust our expectations in…
Poetry and People in Paradise
If Once You Have Slept on an Island If once you have slept on an island You’ll never be quite the same; You may look as you looked the day before And go by the same old name, You may bustle about in street and shop; You may sit at home and sew, But you’ll…
Elbow Reef Light
We meet interesting people every day, both on water and land. Sometimes we get their story, hear a song, share a poem or a glass of iced rum… Today we met Elvis and his uncle Henry – each full of character and wisdom ready and willing to impart. Elvis (in top photo) is from Great Inagua Island and…
Bajamar
The name “Bahamas” comes from the Spanish word, “BAJAMAR” – meaning “shallow sea”.* There are over 700 islands here, spread over nearly 300,000 sq km in the western Atlantic Ocean. Much of the water is so shallow it is impassable and even deep water is remarkably clear as glass. With our first two weeks in the Bahamas behind us, we feel relaxed and…
Our first “Crossing”
Crossing the Gulf Stream or even part of the Atlantic Ocean in our boat was never, ever on my “gotta do this” list. Or, if I am being honest, on my “maybe-wanna do” list. But cross part of the Atlantic Ocean we did, and what a cool experience. We waited months for the right weather…
Poetry in Motion – Cortado Style
Poetry has been a solid course of study onboard the Cortado. Over the last two years I modified a very basic poetry curriculum from our Calvert School studies to incorporate a larger appreciation of the art of poetry. We read a lot of poems! We search for poetry that resinates within and we each continue to…
School, Fish and Racing Sailboats
Clouds: bimulous, billowing and amazing. Rain soft, gentle, sideways, pounding. Mother nature showing every possible color of blue, teal, grey, green, aqua… so beautiful in the Keys. The weather has been interesting these past two weeks and in Key West we have seen some BIG wind and rainstorms. This was cause to move school indoors,…
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