I am often the person who calls the first meeting. In Ojai, I brought together a group of families around the idea of a self-directed school and makerspace. That gathering became Rock Tree Sky. My role was to instigate: ask the first question, bring people together, and help give the idea a structure. My family was among the first to join, and I served on the founding board. A decade later, Rock Tree Sky is still serving children and families who needed another way. Rock Tree Sky showed me that education could be built differently. It also clarified what I couldn’t do. I couldn’t spend the next decade recreating school around the kitchen table. My brain couldn’t educate three children inside the four walls of a house. I also didn’t want it to. My curiosity was one of the best things I had to offer my daughters. I needed an education that kept that curiosity alive. Ojai is beautiful. It is also small. So we began looking outward. I wanted to know how other communities and cultures were reinventing education, so we visited self-directed learning communities in Barcelona, the Dominican Republic, and the Czech Republic. I wasn’t looking for one perfect model to copy. I wanted to see what education looked like when it grew from a community instead of being dropped on top of it. Then the question grew larger: What could learning become if we built it around where we were? That question eventually took the four of us through 23 countries. We didn’t travel instead of learning. Travel became how we learned.