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The Year We Ruined Our Lives

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The Year We Ruined Our Lives

A Family Road Trip Through Mexico and Central America

Authors & Illustrator

Author:

Paul
Carlino

Illustrator:

Mila
Villasana
First Place Book Award

First Place Award

Nonfiction > Memoirs - Travel

Description

Paul and his wife Rebecca had it all. Good jobs, healthy kids, their dream house, and the nagging feeling that the American Dream wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.Then one day while drinking rum on the beach, they met a woman traveling the world. That encounter planted the seed that Paul and Rebecca could shake things up a bit. After years of saving and planning, they purchased a camper, took their two children out of school, packed their things, and spent a year on the road. Part travel memoir, part how-to-guide for planning your own family overland adventure (including tips on essential gear, road safety, homeschooling, and crossing borders), The Year We Ruined Our Lives is also fun and thought-provoking, as Paul ponders questions that he never had to consider in his law practice; Why are sea turtles endangered? What to do about homeschooling when your students think you are a bad teacher? How often do sloth’s pee? And finally, How will we go back to the lives we left behind?