Oregon's bestselling author and his partner, the artist Janell Sorensen, are traveling to Europe for half a year to explore the Continent from Italy to Norway. But they've also brought their two children, six-year-old Ian and eight-year-old Karen, to experience the Old World by enrolling them in school in a small German town -- with the promise they'll get to visit Legoland. It's 1989, and with car trips to Tuscany, the Alps, and Communist East Germany, the entire family learns lessons about life abroad. Alternating entries by Bill and Janell reveal differing points of view in this lively journal, illustrated with original pen-and-ink drawings,