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Wouldn't it make more sense to buy something like the Crazy Creek chair (http://www.crazycreek.com/interior.cfm?page=products&Category=1) that is more portable and can be used for sitting on dirt, stadium benches, grass, etc.? Why buy and store something that can only be used on sand, and only on rather wet sand at that?

I had very positive feelings toward this family and what they have chosen to do with their kids until reading Dave's "How We Got Here" post on their blog---they seem to have a total Western bias and a really disappointing discomfort with exposing themselves or their kids to anything other Euro-American luxury standards of living. The end of my patience for their limited worldview was Dave's comment:
"After we returned home I tried to get back to London as quickly as possible by doing a summer internship there. I had an interview with the London office of a consulting firm but then decided I'd had enough of consulting and wanted to try investment banking. The only offer I got was for Goldman Sachs, in Hong Kong or New York. So we went to Hong Kong, where we spent the summer making memories of watching children urinate in the street."
I have lived in France (as well as other parts of the world), and I enjoy the French way of life as much as anyone, but it is incredibly short-sighted and ignorant not to see the value of immersing oneself in the language, history, and culture of areas of the world outside of Western Europe. Kind of undermines their effort to portray themselves as open-minded and progressive, and it makes Dave's pejorative references to "people that [sic] like NASCAR" seem even more silly.