Inez and John were already up in New York for the past 2.5 weeks - out in Southampton - spending QT with her family, especially her 87.5 year old mother. Chrissy was going to join them. And at her age, 15, she can technically fly up from Florida all by herself. But at the [...]
On Saturday Inez and I flew from Fort Myers, FL to Las Vegas (via Charlotte). When we arrived at the car rental place we were terrified to see 100 people in line ahead of us! Inez tried to scramble to another line-less agency but they wanted $2,400 to rent a car for the week. Well, [...]
Back in February, my 11 year old son John launched his eponymous podcast on iTunes - The Johncast. And as of this post, he has now published 24 episodes of "The podcast for cool and smart kids...your oasis from homework, vegetables, and your parents!" This idea came out of nowhere and that alone is [...]
Last year, while abroad in London, we did manage to play in a few chess tournaments. But the chess scene over there, well, was not nearly as developed at what we have in the NYC-area. Basically we were spoiled over here. In New York, there are tournaments that kids and adults can play in [...]
We may be back from London, but true to my post-Euro resolution....we are still traveling! Last week the kids and I drove all the way down (14 hours) from our home on Long Island, New York to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Why? Because a client hired me to come manually set-up and launch his homeschool. My [...]
Our 10.71 year old son John continues to make great music on the piano. Here's his latest - a very, very fast song that he's been working on for several months. WARNING - you may get dizzy watching his fingers fly! We still don't even have a piano! There he was playing at [...]
Bangkok was to be our last stop before returning to our long lost home in New York....and it'd be brief too. If you haven't read the first two Thailand posts, here they are: Riding Pachyderms in Chiang Mai, Thailand Relaxing in Phuket, Thailand And here's my photo GALLERY for Bangkok - in case you [...]
First visit - Riding Pachyderms in Chiang Mai, Thailand for context if you haven't already. Wednesday We flew 1 hr 40 min from Chiang Mai at nearly the top of Thailand, 754 miles south to almost the bottom, just above Malaysia. Phuket is beach destination. After 15 months of un-tropical London....we were very much [...]
We left London, for good, at 9 am on Saturday April 4th. See my post - Leaving London - if you haven't already. A massive cleaning crew descended on our flat as did our airport-bound taxi. I quickly ran to the South Ken Tube station one last time to get rebates on our Oysters (public [...]
Recall we came to London 14 months ago because I read a provocative book - The New Global Student. And what an amazing time we've had here! The movers packed our stuff and sent it off to an air crate yesterday. Our kids had their best "mate" Sean over in the afternoon. They went out [...]
