Before embarking on our around-the-world trip, the boys and I made a list of personal goals. Here’s hoping that we can achieve them!
Shellie
- Expose my children to the world in order to develop a greater understanding and appreciation for it’s people, their struggles, and their triumphs
- Show my children the true reality of living in a 2nd and 3rd world country
- Empower my children to make changes and choices that impact the world for the better
- Help my sons to develop empathy not pity
- Learn about different cultures and experience them firsthand outside of normal tourist trappings
- Cement a loving, open, and honest relationship with each of my sons
- Help my sons to develop a stronger relationship between each other
- Improve communication between all members of our family
- Have deep, meaningful, memorable conversations
- Share our family’s past
- Read more
- Email and text less
- Increase my endurance
- Learn to use chopsticks
- Eat an exotic food worthy of Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel
- Share the Bible daily with my sons
- Live in the moment, not in a planner looking ahead
Nathan
- See more countries and continents and experience their cultures
- See new and unforgettable things
- Learn more about my world through experiences
- Expand my comfort zone
- Speak with locals
- Learn to use chopsticks
- Eat exotic foods
- Not suffer jet lag
- Grow closer to my family
- Have fun!
Aidan
- See a zebra, lion, and giraffe in Africa
- Learn to use chopsticks
- Eat an exotic insect
- Improve my relationship with my family
- Have fun!
Neerav
- Not go crazy when the family is traveling without me
- Explore new cultures, people, and foods
- Strengthen my relationship with my kids and experience the world through their eyes
- Relax!
