WORLDSCHOOLING 2019, the Yucatan Penninsula, Mexico >> Belize >> Guatemala >> Ecuador

We left Anahata after a month and traveled to Merida to sight-see as a family and to meetup with a woman I knew from our San Diego dance community. We then took a bus to south-east Mexico, Balcazar, where we were awed by the crystalline blue green waters. Unfortunately, Burt got sick in Merida and didn't tend to his self care. By the time we arrived in Belize, after busing across the border, he had a full blown sinus infection again. It was scary. Fortunately, a family we had met at Anahata, came to Belize to travel with us into Guatemala. We spent three weeks in Guatemala where Burt was able to heal. We said "Goodbye" to Shelley and her sons there and then we flew to Ecuador. Thus the path we spent the next few years following - USA >> Mexico >> Guatemala >> Ecuador - was first forged. Burt started us down this path of worldschooling and, to be honest, I don't know if I would have had the courage to do so alone. As a single woman, I am well traveled but traveling with a child into foreign locales plus having to navigate all of our stuff can feel overwhelming. Burt's brother, Calvin, had died of the same cancer fourteen years prior. Like Burt, he too experienced an 18-month remission from their genetic inheritance. However, he spent the time going back to work, and providing for his family in the mid-west. Making the leap to give up our American life, Burt took a big risk - especially so soon after receiving remission - but we made memories that will last Cee and I the rest of our lives. We spent some of Burt's final months together having new experiences in unfamiliar terrain while making new friends. It was amazing and what we, as a family, needed after the stress of the year before when Burt's cancer showed up.