We Came, We Saw, We Left, Charles Wheelan
We Came, We Saw, We Left, Charles Wheelan
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We Came, We Saw, We Left
A Family Gap Year

Author: Charles Wheelan

Narrator: P.J. Ochlan

Unabridged: 10 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/09/2021


Synopsis

Charlie Wheelan and his family do what others dream of: They take a year off to travel the world. This is their story.

What would happen if you quit your life for a year? In a pre–COVID-19 world, the Wheelan family decided to find out; leaving behind work, school, and even the family dogs to travel the world on a modest budget. Equal parts "how-to" and "how-not-to"—and with an eye toward a world emerging from a pandemic—We Came, We Saw, We Left is the insightful and often hilarious account of one family's gap-year experiment.

Wheelan paints a picture of adventure and connectivity, juggling themes of local politics, global economics, and family dynamics while exploring answers to questions like: How do you sneak out of a Peruvian town that has been barricaded by the local army? And where can you get treatment for a flesh-eating bacteria your daughter picked up two continents ago? From Colombia to Cambodia, We Came, We Saw, We Left chronicles nine months across six continents with three teenagers. What could go wrong?

About Charles Wheelan

Charles Wheelan is the author of the bestselling Naked Statistics and Naked Economics and is a former correspondent for the Economist. He teaches public policy and economics at Dartmouth College and lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his family.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessaka

If you like bill Bryson you may like this book. Think of bill Bryson, his wife and 2 children going on a year trip around the world. I tried, I really tried. I am not a bill Bryson fan. This was a book Group read, and if they all like it I am not going to mention bill Bryson's name. I mean, Maybe th......more

Goodreads review by Theresa

In this travelogue, Charles Wheelen describes how he and his wife took sabbaticals from their teaching jobs for nine months, their eldest daughter delayed college for a year, and their two other teenage children left their in-person schools to do work online. So, two adults made the decision to trav......more

Goodreads review by Sheena

From South America to Australia, Vietnam to India, and so many more countries; Charles Wheelan takes us on a travel adventure with his family. Part travelogue and part memoir, Wheelan describes how him and his family are able to leave behind real life and travel for about 9 months at a time. He expl......more

You know that guy in the office who tries so damn hard to be funny, or “likeable”, that you actually end up just wanting to punch him in the throat?! Well, that’s how I felt about the author; Charles Wheelan. His attempts to be the nerdy cool dad were SO DAMN ANNOYING & his 12 yr old son...don’t get......more