Author Archives: John Higham

Fine dining is one of the Higham family’s hobbies. Not really…actually, our budget was so tight that we were rarely able to eat at restaurants. We simply couldn’t afford it. Most of our meals, especially in Europe, were from the grocery store. I think we ate ham or turkey sandwiches, picnic style, nearly every day […]

When you are traveling in out-of-the-way places, it is often impossible to plan anything in advance. This is Dona Lupe’s in in Jirira, Bolivia. Dona Lupe is a woman in a tiny village in Bolivia who rents rooms to travelers. Her village has no phones or electricity, and so it is impossible to call in […]

We think this is a pretty nice place to sleep, don’t you? We were in the middle of a “Desert Safari” in Dubai, a state in the United Arab Emirates. A “Desert Safari” really means that someone in a four-wheel drive takes you out into the middle of the desert and leaves you there for […]

Yeah, sort of. Our kids attend public school – this is the first day of class the year before we left on our trip. We knew that we couldn’t expect too much of ourselves on the road and decided that the only subject which we would formally teach our children was math. We hoped everything […]

We started our trip with the intention of cycling from London, England to Istanbul, Turkey. We have two tandem bicycles that we share – September and Katrina ride on one, and John and Jordan ride on the other. In this picture we are taking the tandems apart to fit into four cases that we will […]

Before we had children we lived in Kamakua, Japan for a year, where John was sent to babysit a satellite sold by his company to a Japanese broadcasting company. We enjoyed living abroad so much that we decided that once we had children, and when the children were old enough, we wanted to spend a […]

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