Schoolin' On the Road

Mar. 18, 2006

Here it is....

another couple of months since the last time that I have done anything on this and I am feeling like I am such a terrible blogger.  But I do know that it isn't necessarily about how much you blog, but what you have to say.  I will try to be a little better about doing this but sometimes life just gets in the way. Well since we left home at Christmas, we have cris-crossed the country a couple of times.  We have gone from coast to coast, but haven't been in the south much until this last week.  We had a delivery to make in South Carolina and now we are going to Mississippi and Louisiana.  It is nice to be somewhere where we don't have to bundle up just to get out of the truck.  It has been extremely cold in the plains states when we go through and we have gotten stuck in some nasty weather. One of the things that we have been able to do in the last couple of months is to take a load from Chicago to Prosser, WA.  We did so by going across US Highway 20.  We got caught in a blizzard in Laramie, WY.  We left Laramie and went over Togwattee Pass.  What an example of the greatness of God.  The area over the pass is one of the most beautiful areas of our country.  There was approximately six feet of snow on either side of the road and there were snowmobile tracks all over the place.  The meadows and the valleys up there are just beautiful. After coming down off the pass we came into Grand Teton National park.  We were hoping to see the Tetons, but because of low lying clouds we were only able to see the bottoms.  I wanted my DH and DS to see them because they are some of the most majestic mountains in the country and neither of them have seen them.  I lived in Yellowstone park when I was in high school and have seen the Tetons many times.  That was something that I wanted to share but was unable to because of the weather.  That's okay, it gives us a reason to go back sometime. Something else that has happened is that we met a kindegarten teacher one evening as we were going to dinner.  We got to talking and when she found out that we homeschooled on the truck and that our DS got to travel all over the country, she was all excited.  In the course of the conversation we made arrangements for the DS to write to her class of kindegartners.  So now, as we travel we pick up post cards and send them from different places.  He also will send the occasional letter and pictures of the different  things that we see.  He gets the exprerience of writing letters and postcards and the class in Virginia gets to hear firsthand little glimpses of the areas that we go to. You know, we are so blessed.  We are together as a family, we are able to spend the time together that we wouldn't be able to if my DH were to be on the road all the time by himself.  We get to see this country like most people are unable to and we get to meet people everywhere we go. We have a wonderful life, even if it isn't the traditional life that most people think of.  I wouldn't necessarily recommend it to everyone, but it is one way to constantly be in contact with your family and to have a great deal of control and input in what your child(ren) learn(s).  I know that a lot of homeschoolers homeschool because of the trash that is presented in the public school and because it is the best option for them.  We started to homeschool out of necessity due to our lifestyle, but I think that we will continue even after we have our house built and we aren't on the road constantly just because of the freedom and the lack of restriction. Until next time..... The intrepid travellers

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