by admin | Nov 17, 2025 | Adventurer, Advocate for Homeschool, Encore
The Amazon Rainforest Our family spent January 29 – March 2 in the rainforest of Ecuador. The scariest part of the trip was getting on the bus here at the Quito bus station where there are 400 buses that pull through this station every hour. We arrived about 5:30...
by admin | Nov 17, 2025 | Advocate for Homeschool, Artist, Encore
See Gallery Below Ecuador and the Rainforest in the Entryway When I graduated from high school then left college, I was starving in many ways. After 15 years of school, I was starving for a real education. I tell people that my real education finally began when I...
by admin | Nov 17, 2025 | Advocate for Homeschool, Artist, Encore
A Ucon Elementary teacher heard about the Day Family home-grown rainforest and asked to come see it. When she came, she loved it so much that she asked us to help construct one in her classroom. We said that we would love to help. Some of the dads and moms helped...
by admin | Nov 12, 2025 | Artist
by admin | Nov 11, 2025 | Encore
Right to left: Grandpa Alfred and Grandma Ida; children in birth order; Arnold; Isabel; Walter; and the obviously not identical twins, the red-headed freckled faced, Lucile and Lucy A much younger Durtschi Family Grandma Ida and Grandpa Alfred Marry Grandpa Edward and...