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Van life across India - a homeschooling family adventure

109 images Created 16 Feb 2021

We were in Delhi, India and we needed to travel. With the help of a friend we bought a second hand mini van, a Maruti Eeco. It was so tiny. We built a bed for us in the back, my older son (10 years old) slept across the front seats, our younger one (5 years old) hung in a hamac above our feet.
Indian don't travel much by van. We were a curiosity everywhere we went. "What about the tigers, isn't that dangerous?".
We took the school on the road.

10.000 km across parts of India: the only problem really were the giant invisible speed bumps, the occasional tractor going the wrong way on the highway, and the inevitable drunk showing up at sunset that would stick around for too long.
The rest was wonderful...

This is an unpublished story
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