Way back in 2015, I wrote about this world-traveling family’s 20 Most Memorable Moments of 2014. But our journey had only just started — we continued hopping across the globe for a good portion of 2015. Here are the 35 things we experienced in 2015 that we regularly talk about.
› This summer we're packing up and hitting the road to experience that great tradition—the Epic American Road Trip. We'll be traveling the highways and byways of the United States, journeying through 17 states in three weeks. Join us, won't you?
After leaving England, we had a three-day layover in Iceland, a small island country the locals call a land of ice and fire. On our first day, we got the lay of the land in Reykjavik, along with a history lesson or two, and some delicious hot dogs.
Way back around the year 120, Roman Emperor Hadrian built a giant wall too keep the wildmen out of the northern border of the Roman Empire. Parts of that wall still stand today.
During our 333-day trip around the world, I filmed one second of video for each day we were traveling. Well, kind of. When it was all over, all that footage was turned into a six-minute video that nicely chronicles our journey. And you can see that video right here.
Monday morning it was straight outta Bruges and right into Calais so we could catch the ferry across the English Channel to Dover. This would be our last day in the Schengen Area until Iceland. And it wasn't long before we saw the White Cliffs and arrived in Dover.
We drive from Brussels to Berlin so we can catch a flight to Copenhagen, but not before stopping in Brühl, Germany to adventure through Phantasialand, the best theme park you've (probably) never heard of.
Before we left Luxembourg we had one last place to visit — the small town of Schengen, a short drive to the south and east of Luxembourg City.
This update didn't really fit into the Sound of Music tour recap, and the post on Prague was getting too long, so the drive from Salzburg to Prague is going to have to stand on its own. But I warn you, it's not very exciting.
We spent less than a day in two of the most expensive countries we've had the pleasure to visit. Unfortunately for us, we ate four meals during that time ... including a $50 lunch at McDonald's in Liechtenstein.
We had to leave Le Marche and head across Italy to Lucca, but not before we stopped in to see the mummies of Urbania in the Church of Death.
We didn't do much on Day 160. The girls got massages (again) and we ate pizza at Belmiro's for the last time, because the next day we'd be leaving Cambodia for Thailand.
We leave Vietnam and take a short flight to Cambodia where we encounter deadly naga, friendly tuk tuk drivers, and a sneaky street scam. Thrills abound! Oh! And tacos!
In which we learn how to enter Vietnam.
Remember that bus ride we took across Costa Rica into Panama? This day started like that, only slightly less miserable.
