When it comes to roadtrips with kids, the fine line between awesome and awful is in the planning. Anyone can plot a point between A and B, gas up and go, but with great roadtrips, it’s all about the journey. The destination is just the happy finality that points you in the right direction. What you do with the miles…
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After years of dedicated obsession to travel, I feel like I have sampled enough of the buffet of wandering options to pick a favorite-roadtripping! Yes, it is slower and perhaps even more monotonous, and that is exactly why I like it. I love the deliberate rhythm of ticking off the miles as the scenery subtly shifts from something known to…
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Is traveling with kids stressful? I feel like this is a trick question, like one of those SAT logic questions. Remember those questions, like If all Zips are Zoodles, and all Zoodles are Zonkers, then all Zips are definitely Zonkers. Reading that definitely stresses me out, but the question is about kids/travel/stress continuum. It is a genuine question that was…
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This list of ideas could easily be called 5 Ways We Make Homeschooling Easier or 5 Ideas for Getting My Homeschool Act Together, but I had just fought a decimals to fractions battle that took me the edge (again) and I was feeling more homeschool hate than homeschool happy, ya’ll. So, since I’ve already blown the cover off the happy…
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I have maps on the brain. I’ve been looking at a ton of online maps, as I am planning a road trip out west, but I also have a giant stack of glossy, gorgeous maps sitting in a pile in my living room- and they have to go! It’s not that I don’t love them. It’s more that I am…
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