Throughout our planning and some of our adventures I’ve kept in touch with the family that inspired us to take this trip. The Lewis Family had their own epic family round the world adventure. They blogged about it here.

Have a read of what they did.

Here is the post where they write about being stuck in Hamilton. It was an inconvenience to them but a blessing to us.

Here are their Bangkok posts. I hope we don’t have tech issues in Thailand when we get there in three weeks!

I love the map that is included in their blog. It is interactive! You can click on each pin to see what happened at that spot. It also show the path that they have taken as they travelled east.

Unfortunately the OffExploring Host is no longer allowing new users but man do I wish we could have used that service. The short blog formats probably would have had me writing less but more often.

A BIG thank you to the Lewis family for inspiring us to take this trip. I hope we’re exploring others to do the same. If you want to read the previous Inspiration post it is here.