Goals

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!