Adventures With Boy 123

Eleuthera, Bahamas 🇧🇸  Welcome to Water World! Is the Bahamas the Ultimate Destination for Digital Nomads? We were about to find out… In 2017 our family sailed our small boat from Maine to The Bahamas. We had the opportunity to YouTube our adventures, saving all the fun moments to revisit in later years. We were also able to maintain a blog, letting family and friends know where we were, and what we were up to. Internet was tricky on the sailboat, and we were not pursuing digital nomad work. It was all about the experience. Fast forward to COVID. We were on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas when the country went on lockdown. We were not going to be able to return to Maine for work, which was going to pose a serious income shortfall. Fortunately my brilliant wife suggested I go online, and teach on Outschool! Classes filled up quickly, and I loved the experience of teaching a wide variety of classes that I was passionate about. To top it all off, we were in the Bahama...

Epic Family Fun on The Border by Josh Holloway   We stood there, my wife Heidi, our 3 young sons, and I, in front of a camera a few hundred yards from Mexico, attempting to re-enter the United States. Heidi looked puzzled, holding the handset to her ear at the U.S. border entry point in Big Bend, National Park. A Customs and Immigration agent was on the other end of the line, over 300 miles away, in El Paso. “What’s the look about,” I wondered. Mexico was an opportunity that popped out of the desert expanse, as our family of five circumnavigated the U.S. by minivan. We were obtaining our backcountry camping permit, and debating the 4X4 capabilities of our Honda Odyssey with the Big Bend park ranger, when Heidi spotted Boquillas del Carmen, Mexico, just across the Rio Grande on the park map. “Can we just go there?” she inquired. “Well, the border’ll be open  till five o’clock . Once it closes it’s closed  until Wednesday ,” the ranger responded. ...