As our journey moves into Western Texas and beyond, my family and I get the incredible feeling of wide-open-spaces that I savored when younger. While Texas had plenty of elbow room from the beginning, our drive westward from Austin saw farmland give way more and more to desert, until hills and mountains rose up as… [Read More]
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Homeschooling with Museums
When we stayed outside of Houston, museum-hopping really complemented many subjects for our kids. Most days we drove the 30 miles down to the city from the great RV-ranch where we stayed, hitting one or more of the educational spots downtown. Two of our favorites, the Children’s Museum and the Natural History Museum, have already seen more than… [Read More]
Nature Walks
I’ve found that one of the easiest and most informative activities I can do to homeschool my children is simply to go for a stroll, especially in the natural settings of most RV parks. Before arriving in Segnette State Park, we had the limitation of usually staying in a Walmart parking lot while we were… [Read More]
Driving Our RV
We’ve made it south through Alabama and west to Central Time in our journey here to Louisiana. Here we will spend the Holidays, then head to Texas in hopes of escaping the rest of winter’s chill. Sipping my coffee early morning, I once again can see my breath here in the RV after some warmer… [Read More]