15 posts
Posts about the trip itself — the journey, the ship, and the milestones along the way.
by Joe OK, you’ve seen each of the kids post their “one-year back” blog entries… and this is mine. Except I’m trying something a little different this time, I wrote mine from a “PROFESSIONAL” perspective and put it on LinkedIn. After all, you know all about the TRIP but what you don’t know is… Read more Full-Circle, Twice Around: my Big #HitRefresh
by Alexander 1I had hoped that by the end of the trip, I wouldn’t have to write any more blog posts. 2Apparently I was wrong– My dad is making me write one more for the one year anniversary of our return home. 3I could argue that this is a waste of my time. 4I am… Read more It’s a year after our trip. I’m in 8th grade. You know what that means???
by Sydney First thing I am going to talk about is how I feel about coming back from the big trip. Second thing I will be talking about, if we go back what I would change. Third, about how some parts of school, like writing and math, are easier now then others. And fourth talking… Read more Big Trip: Looking Back, One Year Later
by Piper Now that I’m back home, every morning I wake up happy and reviled to be home. I didn’t know that you could appreciate your home so much since we went on the big trip for a while. I love the fact that I don’t have to wake up every morning to corn flakes… Read more One year back at home
We wish all of you a very happy holiday season! Last year we made our traditional “family holiday music video” right after Christmas as a retrospective on the trip.. so this year we’re going to post that video on the blog. Enjoy! (Maybe some year we’ll manage to make the holiday video BEFORE Christmas…… Read more Happy Holidays! Music Video .. looking back on the Big Trip
We Belfiores are math-people. (Hey — no giggling out there! This is true!) Want proof? Try asking one of us whether we were worried about traveling around the world in the face of ISIS and other unfortunate conflict around the world, which makes travel SEEM like it might be unsafe… and we’ll respond with an explanation… Read more Stats: Our Big Trip by the Numbers
At 4pm on Tuesday we were sitting around “Joe and the Juice” in the Reykjavik airport, looking up at the Flight Departures monitor. Bags checked, we had an hour to kill before our flight. Wistfully, I said to the kids “Hey — take a look at that board. If I said you could pick one of… Read more Iceland 2: The End.
We didn’t want everyone getting the idea that our trip has been all smiles and tropical cocktails, or that we’re not telling the whole story on our blog…so for a few months we’ve been meaning to share some of the “dark side” moments from our travels. And finally, here they are. By the way, a number… Read more The Dark Side
by The Whole Family. We can’t believe it… our nearly-four-months aboard the MV World Odyssey.. IS OVER! A year or so ago the idea of being at sea with a ship full of college students still seemed pretty, well, nutty. Let’s just say some of our friends thought it “insanity.” But now the journey… over 27,000 miles with… Read more The Voyage Ends: Au Revoir, Life-at-Sea!
by the Whole Family Sometime around the end of March — right around the time we were in Ghana– our Big Trip hit its halfway point. Of course the “halfway point” is not well-defined, since we still haven’t finalized our exact plans for the end of the trip. At some point we’ll know when we’re… Read more Halfway done: “We have a new normal”
I’m keeping a journal for our big trip… and instead of writing a separate blog post on the ship, I’m just going to post a few days from my journal! Lucky you…
by Kristina We boarded the Semester at Sea ship (not be referred to as a boat) for our voyage (not be confused with a cruise) on Tuesday, January 5 so we’ve now spent a week on the ship. Here are some observations after a week.
Beneath grey skies and the unsettling up-and-down movement of the ship under our feet, we just finished our (surprisingly serious and thorough) lifeboat drill… and with that we’re ready to go! Within the next 30 minutes, we should be pushing out to sea.
by Alexander To be gone from home for three-fourths of a year totally feels unreal. I mean, I don’t know a SINGLE PERSON that has been gone from home for more than five months. I’m going to be without almost all the things I love at home. I won’t go to a school, which means… Read more 9 Months Away from home… How am I Supposed to Survive????
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