S'porean family of 8 took a 6-month road trip through US without staying in a single hotel

Look at how cool and unconventional they are.

Belmont Lay| January 29, 05:11 PM

These are the Ongs:

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The Ongs are made up of eight family members who are totally not your conventional Singaporean type of people: Dan Ong, 45, the father and a former secondary school teacher, his wife and stay-at-home-mom, Ong Suwei, 40 and six home-schooled children aged three to 16.

In June 2015, the family up sticks and embarked on a six-month road trip through the US after Mr Ong quit his job as a teacher in a local secondary school to take a break.

For the next six months, transport-and-home was a nine-seater station wagon and a pop-up camper they bought for a meagre S$8,000 in the US.

In it, they travelled 23,000km and covered 43 states, such as Utah, California and South Carolina, without staying in a single hotel or motel.

To chronicle their journey, the Ongs set up a Facebook page "Six kids and a pop-up camper".

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by 6 Kids and a Pop-Up Camper on Monday, December 7, 2015

 

Via the page, they met many overseas Singaporeans in the US who wanted to meet them.

The Ongs were treated to barbecue by a Pixar employee, who offered them free passes to Disneyland, toured Facebook's office in California as the tech giant has a Singaporean staff and visited only free attractions such as national parks, museums and monuments so they wouldn't have to pay.

Tickets to Disneyland, for example, would have set them back by about $1,000.

The family is now working on a book of their writings.

 

This is the latest Facebook post in reaction to the reaction they have received:

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this ST article has hit 11k shares! Looks like our story has somehow captured the imaginations of fellow...

Posted by 6 Kids and a Pop-Up Camper on Thursday, January 28, 2016

 

H/T The Straits Times

 

Top photo via 6 Kids and a Pop-Up Camper

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