Monthly Archives: July 2021

When I was 20-ish years old, I took my 10-year-old brother on a road trip from San Diego to Buffalo, and we stopped at the Grand Canyon. I remember being very aware that if I somehow let him slip off the edge, not only would I be incredibly sad, my family would also disown me. […]

Today we go to another place I have never been to: Moab, Utah, and Arches National Park. The drive through Colorado was generally green, and there were many ranches with fat cattle munching happily. It seems that more rain falls into those valleys than in eastern and central Wyoming. The valley walls were sometimes red, […]

Today we came to something I have never seen before. When you have made over 20 trips across the country by car, that is a rarity. We left the pretty little hotel on the perfectly picturesque Belle Fourche River, Remember, the hotel is for sale. Someone buy it!!! Devil’s Tower is a grade work of […]

We should name our road trip “There and Back Again.” Today we start our journey home. We started on the east side, went west, came back east, and now we are going back west. It has been a good investigation trip, we know a lot more now than we did a month ago, some surprising […]

Today would have been my Oma’s 98th birthday. It is also this girl’s 12th birthday! It is appropriate that they share a birthday, as they are very much alike. They are outwardly quiet and appear to be easy going and always gentle. Inside they are analytical, fierce, perfectionistic, and utterly brilliant. My Oma went to […]

Today was a driving day, and so a lot happened, but not much seemed to happen. We realized that we had not explored Sioux Falls enough to know what the East side of the state is really like, and we need to experience all of everything here. We took the 90 for speed. It was […]

Brandon’s planned vacation work day turned quickly into Brandon’s vacation flu day. We decided to get away from camp and let him be miserable with his germs by himself, and hopefully avoid getting his gross bug in our systems. There were two items on our “let’s do that” list for today. First, we wanted to […]

This morning we went to church in Rapid City. There are no Anglican churches in Rapid City, so this time we went to one of the local Lutheran churches, and found a sense of family there. People welcomed us with opened arms! Sunshine and the boys made instant friends, and even Kiara put aside her […]

Today is “explore downtown Rapid City” day. We’ll need our strength. Good thing the chuck wagon chef brought his game on this trip and is wearing his food fancy pants today. If he makes something for me that isn’t vegetarian, at least it has bacon! This camp ground has a pool, and that means that […]

Convince me to love Rapid City. Today is day 1 of exploring this town we may move to. There are several reasons that we put Rapid City at the top of our list as we were researching. 1. Reasonable weather2. Reasonable cost of living3. Reasonable homeschool laws (downright great homeschool laws)4. Lots of fresh air […]