Bring Your Kids On a Search for Enlightenment - Bruce Kirkby

Some holiday travelers dread the crush of bodies and long lines at airports, and even more so when young travelers and babies are included. So when Bruce Kirkby and his wife Christine decided to live in a Buddhist monastery in India’s Himalayan foothills, they skipped airplanes altogether and canoed, train-ed, and cargo-shipped their family around the planet. Once they arrived at the monastery, the adults taught English in exchange for the privilege of praying and working alongside the monks. Kirkby explains that his seven and three year old boys took well to the austerity of the 8-by-8 foot room that the family shared for three months. Kirkby says that he thinks the experience left his sons “properly feral”.