Road_Schoolin

Nearly 15 years ago, Juli and sold nearly all of our belongings, threw on a couple of Gregory backpacks and hopped on our first flight west on a nearly year long trip around the world.  We kept a weekly blog called migratingtwo on those travels, each posting our observations, funny stories, and anecdotes about people we met a long the way.   I wanted to do the same on this trip, so we could document our RV travels and share some of our observations "out loud" with our family and friends and just get thoughts down on paper, so we could discuss as a family.   Things are much different this time around, both in our how and where we are travelling and the world as a whole.  We have kids, a dog, a business to run remotely and a homeschool curriculum to worry about.  There is a worldwide pandemic happening all around us and our country is as divided and polarized at levels not probably seen since the 1960's or maybe even the Civil War.  We struggle wit...

Some call might call us crazy.  Some might call us crazy as a fox.  Travelling during a world-wide pandemic begs the question and something we talk about as a family often.  Are we crazy for being out here and visiting tourist attractions, riding on subways, and seeing friends and family along the way?  Or, are we crazy smart for turning a bad situation into something positive and fun? It can be debated and I am sure everyone following our travels has an opinion. As many know, we have been planning this trip for years, long before Covid was a term in our vocabulary.  We had worked hard for years to get our business to a place where we felt comfortable leaving and many other things had to fall into place to allow us to be away from home for so long.  And then as we were flying back from the Seychelles on March 12th, the world was shutting down.  At that time, our September launch date was still a long way off and our plan was to keep things flexible....

The east coast is old, really old comparatively for someone who was born and raised on the west coast.  Yesterday, was Halloween and we had stopped at the March Farm in Bethlehem, CT to take part in some fall festivities and spend the night next to their fish pond.  As we were walking back from the corn maze, I noted to my right, an overgrown line of stacked boulders that rolled down over the hill.  I am guessing many people walk by these rocks and don’t even notice their presence, but it made me wonder what their story was.  Were they placed there 200 years ago?  Who was the farmer that stacked them?  What animals or equipment was used to collect them and lift them? The history in the New England states blows your mind.   In Bend, Oregon we place homes that were built in the late 1800’s or early 1900’s on the historic register, which granted, they are for that part of the world.   But, in Massachusetts or Connecticut something historic dates ba...