FAMILY TRAVEL

Photos: A Family Field Trip Around the World

The school bus can wait. So can the PTA and soccer practice. How one family put “normal” life on hold for a year and let adventure take center stage, traveling to four continents and learning which way the toilet really flushes south of the equator (among other things).

  1. At La Selva Jungle Lodge in Ecuador, Gus contemplates the thick layers of the canopy in the Amazon rain forest.

    (Robb Kendrick)
  2. Gus (left) and Jeb in handwoven ponchos in Chinchero, Peru.

    (Robb Kendrick)
  3. A tranquil morning at the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania.

    (Robb Kendrick)
  4. Jeb playing Army Ranger in Normandy.

    (Jeannie Ralston)
  5. Women spinning wool in Accha Alta, Peru.

    (Robb Kendrick)
  6. Jeannie and Jeb watch a lioness return from a hunt in the Serengeti.

    (Robb Kendrick)
  7. A Masai women in Kenya.

    (Robb Kendrick)
  8. The family perched above Tanzania's Lake Eyasi.

    (Robb Kendrick)
  9. Jeb (top) and Gus with children at Kiteghe Primary School.

    (Robb Kendrick)
  10. The Incan stonework of Machu Picchu.

    (Robb Kendrick)

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