At home in the world : reflections on belonging while wandering the globe : an adventure across 4 continents with 3 kids, 1 husband, and 5 backpacks / Tsh Oxenreider.
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TextPublisher: Nashville, Tennessee : Thomas Nelson, [2017]Description: xii, 276 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781400205592 (hardback)
- 140020559X (hardback)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
As Tsh Oxenreider, author of Notes From a Blue Bike, chronicles her family's adventure around the world--seeing, smelling, and tasting the widely varying cultures along the way--she discovers what it truly means to be at home.
The wide world is calling.
Americans Tsh and Kyle met and married in Kosovo. They lived as expats for most of a decade. They've been back in the States--now with three kids under ten--for four years, and while home is nice, they are filled with wanderlust and long to answer the call.
Why not? The kids are all old enough to carry their own backpacks but still young enough to be uprooted, so a trip--a nine-months-long trip--is planned.
At Home in the World follows their journey from China to New Zealand, Ethiopia to England, and more. They traverse bumpy roads, stand in awe before a waterfall that feels like the edge of the earth, and chase each other through three-foot-wide passageways in Venice. And all the while Tsh grapples with the concept of home, as she learns what it means to be lost--yet at home--in the world.
"In this candid, funny, thought-provoking account, Tsh shows that it's possible to combine a love for adventure with a love for home." --Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before
"As Tsh Oxenreider, author of Notes From a Blue Bike, chronicles her family's adventure around the world--seeing, smelling, and tasting the widely varying cultures along the way--she discovers what it truly means to be at home. In her late thirties and as a mom to three kids under age ten, Tsh Oxenreider and her husband decided to spend a rather ordinary nine months in an extraordinary way: traveling the corners of the earth to see, together, the places they've always wanted to explore. This book chronicles their global journey from China to Thailand to Australia, Sri Lanka, Uganda, France, Croatia, and beyond, as they fill their days with train schedules, world-schooling the kids, and working from anywhere. Told with wit and candor, Oxenreider invites us on a worldwide adventure without the cost of a ticket; to discover people, places, and stories worth knowing about; to find peace in the places we call home; and to learn that, as the Thai say, in the end, we are all 'same, same but different'"-- Provided by publisher.
Part I -- Leaving -- China -- Hong Kong -- Thailand -- Singapore -- Poem: A Market Street in Asia -- Part II -- Australia -- New Zealand -- Australia, Again -- Poem: Summertime Christmastide -- Intermission -- Sri Lanka -- Part III -- Uganda -- Ethiopia -- Zimbabwe -- Kenya -- Morocco -- Poem: Early-Dawn Expotition -- Part IV -- France -- Italy -- Croatia -- Kosovo -- Turkey -- Germany -- England -- Poem: Turkish Dust -- Part V -- Returning.
Includes bibliographical references.