This is our story: my wife, Virginia, and I and our three children, Angela (b 1965), Stuart (b 1967), and Rowena (b 1970) and our travels in our single-engine light aircraft that took us around North America, the Bahamas, and, eventually, around the world from Boston, in the United States, to Sydney, Australia - the city we called home - the long way round via Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.