The Family Adventure Project
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Welcome to The Family Adventure
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What's new? |
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Are you an adventurous family? |
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WANTED: ADVENTUROUS FAMILIES |
Inspirational Talks |
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Armchair Adventure? |
What is Adventure?You tell us: |
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 2007 saw us ride the length of Britain; 2000km in 49 days. Read our Everyday Cycle Heros blog, view our route or look at some pics. A feat recognised with a trophy from the LEJOG Association. |
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Other site highlights |
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| The Family Eco Project READ OUR ECO BLOG | |
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The Family Eco Project is another kind of adventure, an experiment in living and learning, taking a long hard look at our family carbon footprint, examining all aspects of family living - energy consumption, waste, water, travel and leisure - learning more about our impact on the environment and making changes to our family habits and lifestyle to reduce it. We've an ongoing Eco Blog and have focused our travels on more local, eco-friendly destinations. 2006 kept us busy with a Cumbrian eco-tour and our 'Dra åt Skogen!' tour of Western Sweden. 2007 saw us launch 'Wheely Good Communities' a community cycling project and complete the classic UK End to End Challenge chronicled in our Everyday Cycle Heros blog. And for 2008? Well drop back soon and find out. |
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Inspirational
Stories |
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Family
On A Bike |
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Adventures
in Writing |
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A growing collection of stories to help you learn how families adventure together, discover what they get from it, and glimpse what's possible. Read about the dramas and delights of family adventure, hard won lessons and inspirational experiences. We welcome contributions and ideas to develop this collection. Family
Adventure Stories |
The Family on a Bike part of this
site is about our own family adventures by bicycle. First before
children, then with one, next came two and now three. Find out more
about where we've been, what we've done and read our postings and
newsletters from the road about our own family adventures. |
Great writing inspires travel and travel inspires great writing. Whether journalling, stories, poetry or blogs, writing about family adventures encourages family dialogue and develops skills of creative expression. Adventures in Writing encourages, supports and develop the writing skills of family adventurers. To
travel write or not to travel write |
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Inspirational Images | If a picture
speaks a thousand words, we'll let these ones speak for themselves.
Gallery 1 Gallery 2 Gallery 3 Cycle Toddling |
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Six
families in search of adventure |
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Take the family adventure survey |  |
The
List by Leon Schulz |
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There are hundreds of families around the world adventuring together. Read profiles of six different families around the world who adventure together in different ways and for different reasons. Get a sense of what's possible and why people do it. |
We're researching who's doing what in the world of family adventure and want to hear about your experiences. Whether you're new to the game or a long time adventurer, you can contribute through our online adventuresome families survey. |
Sailing home after a year's family adventure at sea, Leon Shulz reflects on the sacrifices and rewards of living the dream, and contemplates the prospect of starting life afresh. Reproduced here with permission from www.reginasailing.com |
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| Family on a Bike: Postings from the Road - 2005 In Search of Adventure Tour | |
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In 2005 Family
on a Bike completed their 'In
Search of Families In Search of Adventure' tour.
Stuart, Kirstie, Matthew, Cameron, Puppy the Wuppy and Lamby on
a 10 month family adventure - cycle touring in New Zealand, eco
touring in Samoa, road tripping and railroad riding across the USA
and Canada. Two adults, two toddlers, two bikes, two trailers, and
too many miles. Meeting other adventurous families and writing real-life
stories of family adventure. |
| Finding
independence by bike |
An adventure in parenting | This I Believe |
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In 1999, Angela Devas bought a trailer bike, packed her ageing camping gear and took her six year old daughter, Catherine, on the road. Their ride, through Denmark was the start of a long journey they would make together in life as they forged a new family unit. Read this story of new beginnings written by Angela especially for the Family Adventure Project. |
For many people a trip to the shops with toddlers is adventure enough. Adventuring with little ones certainly presents its own challenges, including the attitudes of people who tell you it's plain irresponsible. Here Stuart Wickes and Kirstie Pelling recount their first tentative steps in touring with toddlers and show how, with practice, all sorts of things are possible.... whatever people say. | Climbing aboard a bicycle to tour with your children can be a daunting thought, the reality can be challenging yet the rewards are beyond words. Nancy Sathre-Vogel took 12 months out with her husband John and 8 year old twins Davy and Daryl to cycle 9,300 miles around North America. Here, Nancy tries to put into words just why she does it and why she believes it's important. |
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Education & Coaching |  |
Research
into Family Adventure |
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A
Festival of Family Adventure |
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We aim to spread the word about family adventure
through talks and educational activities for schools presentations
and after-dinner speeches for business or community meetings; and
a coaching service dedicated to helping families acquire the skills
and confidence to organise their own family adventures. |
We're researching who's doing what when it comes to family adventure, finding out more about the nature and benefits of it from those who practice it. Right now we're using an online survey to gather information from active adventurers and building a bibliography of relevant articles and research papers.
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We're building a network of people actively involved or interested in family adventure. Families from across the globe, engaged in all sorts of adventures. In the long term we hope to host the world's first festival of family adventure - a chance for families to gather together, meet and celebrate the joys of family adventure. |
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