One Family’s Adventure Traveling The World
Follow along as we spend 10 months traveling around the world. We hope to experience different cultures and people while soaking up as many adventures as possible. Come along for the ride!
Our Most Recent Blog Posts
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Rwandan Safari
16 years ago, Michelle was getting close to finishing up her PhD program at UW-Madison. This would be a significant achievement and something she had worked 5 years…
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Rwanda’s Traumatic History Has Not Stopped Them From Building Something Beautiful
Rwanda wasn’t on our original list for this year. In fact, we were going to skirt Africa entirely – it has been on our life list for a…
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South America Reflections – All 4 Bartman Perspectives
We arrived in South America on August 17th and we left on September 18th. Over the past month we have spent a week in Guatape, Colombia, 3 weeks…
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It only took 3 weeks to do something stupid…Fred climbed a mountain!
Disclaimer: It took a couple days for me to publish this story. I wanted to wait until after I was back safe to share with our parents, so…
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Our first land border crossing – Peru to Bolivia!
The majority of our time in South America has been spent in Peru. That wasn’t what we set out to do, but with the PeruHop bus network, we…
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Unveiling the Wonders of Machu Picchu and Sacred Valley
Over the course of 2 days, we had an opportunity to explore the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu. Both are tucked in the highlands of the Andes Mountains…
Building Bridges in a World Divided
When my wife and I were married 25 years ago, we started talking about the idea of living abroad for a year with our future children. This dream is finally becoming a reality and it is happening during a time when our world seems more divided than ever. We are determined to help our daughters build bridges when others want to put up walls.
