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,...