Pilgrims’ Progress

A well-organised site
Content-rich
Stunning photography
Superbly written stories
(with promise of more to come)

They have what we were dreaming of!

They being a family consisting of mum, dad, a boy and a girl, who are about to take a year off school/the Office Desk and go round the world. Right round the world.
The Wide Wide World.

Their website was planned to make its debut on Pilgrims’ Progress next week, but opening night has been brought forward. Why? Because I commented on their latest post today and within a few hours they had replied. That’s pretty friendly, don’t you think? Well, I *was* offering them pavlova when they make it to New Zealand, but as it turns out we’ll already be on our own adventure by the time they get here. But maybe we’ll meet them in South East Asia. Over a bowl of noodles. I hope we’ll be able to discuss how unfounded our fears were - for now, it’s been encouraging to see there are others who have little panic attacks in the middle of the night too! Others who are a wee bit scared to talk about their trip! Others who have hit the 196 Days To Go mark (actually, we’ve hit that one too. In fact, our children started the numbered countdown on the calendar in the kitchen at 194 days…and that was 43 days ago now).
It would be fun to meet this family - and we just might - isn’t that a bizarre thought?
I just hope they get an authentic kiwi family experience when they hit New Zealand!

Few words, lots of photos from this family after two decades of travel.
Be inspired.
India Peru Thailand Greece NZ Alaska Chile Tonga Norway Hawaii Borneo Morocco Malaysia Spain Cambodia….obviously not in that order

52 weeks, 28 countries this time......I cannot imagine such a fast-paced trip.....every two weeks you're in a new country........and these guys didn't fly everywhere - some of the time they were riding two tandems - another time they travelled by elephant ... [Continue reading this entry]

3 years * 60,000 miles * 24 countries * 4 continents * 122 border crossings in a VW van. But that's not all. In fact that's history. They then went on a ReCycle Journey on - what else? ... [Continue reading this entry]

I could not imagine leaving Rob behind to work while I took the kids round the world - but that's what this family did for six months....at least, their plan was to be gone for six months and their ... [Continue reading this entry]

Is our trip going to make any world records? Unlikely. We're not going the fastest or furtherest or highest or longest or anything remarkable. We're neither walking all the way nor eating only rice (though we did consider that). There ... [Continue reading this entry]