If you love to travel by train, plane, or good old fashioned road trip and want to make it work with kids, you’ll feel right at home here. Besides advice for traveling with young children, you’ll also find tips on homeschooling with purpose, growing a garden full of foods you and your kids will actually eat, and getting the whole family involved in living an intentional life.
I’m an early childhood teacher with a soft spot for infant and toddler care and development. After my first child was born in 2011, I could not bring myself to go back to full time classroom teaching unless he came with me. Although teaching opportunities did present themselves, we never found our perfect fit, so I started searching for a way to work and still stay home with him.
The solution that allows me to homeschool and travel with my young children
After working part-time as a family resource coordinator for Birth to 3 Early Intervention in Washington state, I found a way to work from home full time, ghost blogging for companies big and small.
Now that my job is location independent, I’m able to give my children a rich homeschool environment with tons of first-hand experiences. If we want to study tide pools, we can start at the library but wrap up by going to the coast to experience them for ourselves. When we study the Oregon Trail, we can start in St. Louis and road trip west. When my oldest was 3 years old, we drove coast to coast and explored everything from the Central Coast of California to Mystic Seaport in Connecticut. We camped along the way and saw the fall colors in Pennsylvania and Upstate New York.
Both family travel and solo traveling with young children are challenging, but they can be rewarding and fun! Thanks for following along with our adventures!
