Chasing the Red Dot: Peregrinations Through 2024 - Paperback

Genelin, Irene R.: - Irene Genelin is a writer, worldschooling parent, unicyclist, Ayurveda enthusiast, home chef, and slow traveler who documents her family's everyday life on the road. She began unicycling at age 11 and traveled the world with her husband, Andy, to attend competitions and take part in long-distance unicycling tours. While unicycle touring, she learned to say "excuse me" in many different languages, her favorite being the German "Entschuldigung, bitte." In 2019, they sold their organic fruit farm in Minnesota, where Irene had learned to refinish hardwood floors, keep bees, host wood-fired oven-building workshops, raise animals for meat, and make unusual vegetables taste good by cooking and infusing them with love. Afterward, they began traveling internationally, weaving learning, movement, and community into their daily lives.Irene's writing grew out of a desire to stay connected while traveling and to share what she was learning about parenting, place, culture, and living with intention. What began as short reflections shared online gradually became a steady writing practice rooted in observation and curiosity. Her work highlights small moments: shared meals, long journeys, chance conversations, and the rhythms of family life across cultures.She is interested in self-directed learning, worldschooling, mindfulness, and how travel can deepen connections to others and the wider world. This book is her first self-published work.