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Interview #12: Family on Bikes

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The travel community is filled with incredibly interesting people. All are dreamers and doers who find a way to include travel as a focal point in their lives. If you’ve ever thought about living, working, continuous travel and education with your family in tow – meet John, Nancy, Davy and Daryl of Family on Bikes. John and Nancy are teachers by trade and adventurers at heart. They’ve lived and worked all over the world and have helped their children learn with the world as their teacher. Raising their family in the global classroom community as well as the traditional one, here they share their story, inspiration and ideals of adventure.

Riding bicycles from Alaska to Argentina

1.When did you get started traveling? My life of travel started way back in 1976, when my parents took us kids to Mexico for Christmas vacation. I remember walking down the Mexican streets in wide-eyed amazement – it had never occurred to me that people actually lived differently than I did in Boise, Idaho. When we arrived back home, I turned on the television and a commercial for the Peace Corps came on. I made the decision right then and there that I would join the Peace Corps as soon as I could. I haven’t stopped traveling since. Read the rest of this entry