Last Friday we were able to visit Fort Union National Monument located in northwestern New Mexico.The kids were anxious to visit something other than pueblo dwellings!The kids did the Jr. Ranger program (but they didn’t have patches like they said online ;(We checked out the museum… and after lunch we (some of us) walked the […]
Pecos National Historic Park…
Last Thursday, while working our way up I-25 towards home (albeit slowly), we stopped by Pecos NHP. We were pretty excited about this stop because it sounded like a Civil War battlefield on the NPS website. We have seen so many cliff dwellings, pueblos, and petroglyphs that we needed something new or my troops might […]
Bandelier National Monument, N.M…
Last week we took the opportunity to drive about an hour north of Albuquerque to visit yet another National Park. The farther away from the city we drove, the more the landscape changed…And as we neared the park, we started to notice these odd rock formations full of holes. So many holes that they reminded […]
Petroglyph National Monument, N.M….
Monday evening, we moved down the road just a bit to Albuquerque. The scenery was beautiful – we have grown to love looking at the desert as we drive (which is not to say that we necessarily love to walk around in it!). The landscape features are changing too… We stayed last Monday night in […]
El Malpais and El Morro National Monument, NM…
Last Monday we visited the El Malpais National Monument and the El Morro National Monument – they are located very close to one another tho they are worlds apart in what they feature. We stayed in Grants, NM, so we started by stopping at the northwestern N.M. visitor’s center located in Grants – I had […]
Celebrating Easter while traveling…
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Since downloading pics takes so long where we are at, I decided to skip to today (with only a few pics), and will come back later to catch up on the National Parks that we visited this past week. In our house, Saturday is special because it is’ sugar cereal day’ (when we have it […]
What is roadschooling?
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I get a lot of questions about how we do it, including wondering what is roadschooling, our philosophy when it comes to schooling, and our daily expectations when it comes to schoolwork. I will try to answer the most popular questions, but please understand that it is difficult to share the details of our schooling […]
Petrified Forest National Park, AZ…
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For some reason, I have really wanted to visit the Petrified Forest National Park. I’m not sure why, as I figured that we would be inundated with ‘millions of years’ through the exhibits, the film that the visitor’s centers always have, and the Jr. Ranger booklets. Still, I really wanted to visit, and since we […]
entitlement…
So, the laptop with the pics is dead again, so no pics… The last few nights we have spent between Flagstaff and Albuqueque (I could have never spelled Albuqueque before actually visiting here! ;), and it has been quite an eye opener. One night we spent at the Walmart in Winslow, AZ, which borders an […]
Walnut Canyon National Monument, Arizona…
On Saturday, we traveled just a few miles east of Flagstaff to the Walnut Canyon National Monument. When visiting Walnut Canyon, be sure to check the nps.gov site for directions FIRST, not your GPS! Backing a 40′ 5th wheel up for 3/4 of a mile is not fun (it FELT like about 5 miles!!!). You […]
