Hi All, This is Tricia (Other entries have been from Casey) To answer your why and how questions, I wrote this on the plane to Iceland...we're now in Copenhagen: Nine years ago, as I enrolled Casey in first grade instead of kindergarten, I casually said that I would have him take a year off before high school to travel so he doesn't go to college at 17. Nine days later from this date 9 years ago (Sept. 11, 2001), a near fatal car accident changed my life and made the simple day-to-day tasks extremely challenging. Following that moment, I could no longer imagine this one: sitting on an airplane thousands of miles in the air with my 6', 200 lb 13 year old son next to me flying to Iceland. (And he's watching "Family Guy" as
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