The Homeschool Alternative
When we decided to live and travel in South America Homeschooling was a natural alternative for us, we obviously did not have the “luxury” of public school and since we were not planning on being in one place for more than a couple of months enrolling the kids in a local...
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Gina and I have had health insurance through our places of employment for the past 25 plus years. During my career I was often responsible for selecting the health policies that our company would use to insure our employees, and so had some idea of the escalating costs of the health industry during the past...
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I have struggled from the very beginning with what the focus of Portable Parents Blog should be and what sort of content/stories I should write about and what I shouldn’t include on the website. I had not really thought of writing a blog until it was recommended to me by a friend, I thought I...
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Drum roll please….
Gina and I made the decision that we will return with the kids to the U.S. sometime in September!
What this means is not exactly clear…the decision was really more of a “what next” moment than a long thought out plan of our next steps.
Gina’s mother and step father are visiting us in Buenos...
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We are often asked how our kids cope without television while we are traveling. Inherent in the question is a belief that something awful will happen if the kids aren’t given a daily dose of Nickelodeon or Disney Channel, that without being able to zone out to at least a half hour of Sponge Bob...
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It has already been an interesting school year for our family, and as we approach the traditional holiday break in the U.S. I thought I would reflect on how the first half of our year has gone.
As I have written about previously one of my goals for this trip, and in a broader sense for...
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The primary reason for “stopping” in Panama was to visit the Canal and see it operating first hand. It is an amazing testament to mans ingenuity and creativity, both things good and bad.
For the past 12 years I was involved in the import of many food products and the Panama Canal was a route...
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Culebra Island is one of 4 islands at the Pacific entrance to the Panama canal. At one time these islands were a very strategic military base, the U.S. established them as Fort Grant to guard the southern entrance to the canal. Between 1913 and WWII the U.S. made Fort Grant into the most...
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Well finally figured out how to create and post a video online. The Oscar is probably safe this year…but we will keep our eye on it for next year. Everyone had a hand making this, we all took turns shooting footage.
The video shows the kids interacting with the white face Capuchin monkeys in...
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Our 2 weeks in Jaco are up and we are heading to San Jose. Actually, the bus runs to San Jose but we will take a detour to Alejuella.
This is our 5th or 6th move since we set out from Oregon on August 1st…bound for lands unknown. I am not counting, but we...
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