At home in the world : reflections on belonging while wandering the globe : an adventure across 4 continents with 3 kids, 1 husband, and 5 backpacks

At home in the world Reflections on belonging while wandering the globe : an adventure across 4 continents with 3 kids, 1 husband, and 5 backpacks

Tsh Oxenreider, 1977-

Book - 2017

"As Tsh Oxenreider, author of Notes From a Blue Bike, chronicles her family's adventure around the world--seeing, smelling, and tasting the widely varying cultures along the way--she discovers what it truly means to be at home. In her late thirties and as a mom to three kids under age ten, Tsh Oxenreider and her husband decided to spend a rather ordinary nine months in an extraordinary way: traveling the corners of the earth to see, together, the places they've always wanted to explore. This book chronicles their global journey from China to Thailand to Australia, Sri Lanka, Uganda, France, Croatia, and beyond, as they fill their days with train schedules, world-schooling the kids, and working from anywhere. Told with wit and... candor, Oxenreider invites us on a worldwide adventure without the cost of a ticket; to discover people, places, and stories worth knowing about; to find peace in the places we call home; and to learn that, as the Thai say, in the end, we are all 'same same but different'"--

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Subjects
Oxenreider, Tsh, > 1977- > Travel.
Oxenreider, Tsh, > 1977- > Family.
Voyages around the world.
Families > Travel.
Children > Travel.
Belonging (Social psychology)
Published
Nashville, Tennessee : Thomas Nelson 2017.
Language
English
Main Author
Tsh Oxenreider, 1977- (author)
Physical Description
xii, 276 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781400205592
  • Introduction
  • Part I.
  • 1. Leaving
  • Part II.
  • 2. China
  • 3. Hong Kong
  • 4. Thailand
  • 5. Singapore
  • Part III.
  • 6. Australia
  • 7. New Zealand
  • 8. Australia, Again
  • Intermission
  • 9. Sri Lanka
  • Part IV.
  • 10. Uganda
  • 11. Ethiopia
  • 12. Zimbabwe
  • 13. Kenya
  • 14. Morocco
  • Part V.
  • 15. France
  • 16. Italy
  • 17. Croatia
  • 18. Kosovo
  • 19. Turkey
  • 20. Germany
  • 21. England
  • Part VI.
  • 22. Returning
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • About The Author
  • Notes
Review by Booklist Review

Spending a year traveling around the world is a challenge; spending a year traveling around the world with three kids under 10 takes that challenge to a whole new level. Freelance writer Oxenreider (Notes from a Blue Bike, 2014) and her husband sold their house, loaded up a backpack for each member of the clan, and headed off to spend at least a week and up to a month in dozens of countries, starting with China and ending up in Great Britain. South America was off the itinerary, but Southeast Asia, Australia, Africa, and Europe were well represented. The author doesn't sugarcoat the experience: their funds were often low and their children crabby, and the adults sometimes longed for time to themselves. But she makes a convincing case that travel with children is not just possible but rewarding for all involved. Even those who wouldn't consider such an endeavor will enjoy going along for the ride on the page, and might be encouraged to take on new travel adventures with their families.--Quamme, Margaret Copyright 2017 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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