Normal view MARC view ISBD view

The year we ruined our lives : a family road trip through Mexico and Central America / Paul Carlino

By:

Carlino, Paul

Contributor(s):

Villasana, Mila

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Middletown, DE : Vanamos , 2021Description: 313 p. : illus. ; 23 cmISBN:

798780811428

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 CAR

Summary: Paul and his wife Rebecca had it all. Good jobs, healthy kids, their dream house, and the nagging feeling that the American Dream wasn't all it was cracked up to be. But they were still more than 20 years from retirement so there didn't seem like there was that much they could do about it. Then one day while drinking rum on the beach, they met a woman who was traveling the world for a year with her two teenage children. That chance encounter planted the seed that maybe Paul and Rebecca could shake things up a bit. After years of saving and planning, they bought a classic Volkswagen van, took their 12-year old daughter and 9-year old son out of school, packed up their house, and spent a year driving through Mexico and Central America. In The Year We Ruined Our Lives, Paul takes you along for the ride in their 30-year old van as he and his family climb and descend tall mountains to get to some of the hottest places on earth, are relentlessly pounded by the Pacific surf while they practice falling off their surfboards, come face-to-face with a 400-year old mummy, search for waterfalls and other mostly safe places to jump from, make chocolate and sell it to naked people, and begin their never-ending hunt for the best grilled meat. Yet, despite all their preparation for the family road trip of a lifetime, Paul and Rebecca failed to take into account one important thing. That after having exchanged the daily eat-sleep-work lifestyle for complete freedom with their time and energy, they might not want to go back home.

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Juvenil	92 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Non fiction		048352

Browsing Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. shelves Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)

Previous								Next
Previous	910.92 PLA Illustrated book of great adventures; Real-Life tales of danger and daring	917.2 KRU Let's Go Travelling in Mexico	92 BOU Kitchen confidential : adventures in the culinary underbelly	92 CAR The year we ruined our lives : a family road trip through Mexico and Central America	92 MAC H is for hawk	92 MUR Yo seré la ultima: Historia de mi cautiverio y mi lucha contra el estado islámico	930 FOR Pueblos del pasado	Next

Paul and his wife Rebecca had it all. Good jobs, healthy kids, their dream house, and the nagging feeling that the American Dream wasn't all it was cracked up to be. But they were still more than 20 years from retirement so there didn't seem like there was that much they could do about it. Then one day while drinking rum on the beach, they met a woman who was traveling the world for a year with her two teenage children. That chance encounter planted the seed that maybe Paul and Rebecca could shake things up a bit. After years of saving and planning, they bought a classic Volkswagen van, took their 12-year old daughter and 9-year old son out of school, packed up their house, and spent a year driving through Mexico and Central America. In The Year We Ruined Our Lives, Paul takes you along for the ride in their 30-year old van as he and his family climb and descend tall mountains to get to some of the hottest places on earth, are relentlessly pounded by the Pacific surf while they practice falling off their surfboards, come face-to-face with a 400-year old mummy, search for waterfalls and other mostly safe places to jump from, make chocolate and sell it to naked people, and begin their never-ending hunt for the best grilled meat. Yet, despite all their preparation for the family road trip of a lifetime, Paul and Rebecca failed to take into account one important thing. That after having exchanged the daily eat-sleep-work lifestyle for complete freedom with their time and energy, they might not want to go back home.