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We Came, We Saw, We Left

A Family Gap Year

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We Came, We Saw, We Left

By: Charles Wheelan
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
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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?

©2021 Charles Wheelan (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Adventure Travel Travel Writing & Commentary Funny Witty Travel Memoir
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This book documents a family's travel itinerary without giving any insight into the countries that they visited. The reader does his best to make everyday events sound interesting but ultimately nothing really happened during the journey which was worth writing about.

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