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Dear, Uncle Nathan, Several years ago, you casually mentioned that a place exists where free range kids can climb old city rubble to the top of a building, hang off the top of the building on a school bus, slide down an 11-story slide, and its all made from recycled junk. I mean, seriously, that’s […]

We drove until 2:30am this morning, slept for 4 hours, and were back on the road by 6:30am. It’s amazing how little sleep you need when you are sitting all day. I love New Mexico. Today we re-visited a memory. When Sunshine was almost 2, we took the tent trailer on a road trip, and […]

Let me preface this by saying that road trips feed souls by helping us experience what we should believe and how we should act every single day while not on a road trip. They bring opportunity to practice virtue without stress. We got a late start. Like an 11-hour late start. Our bright idea was […]

Several years ago, Brandon and I had tickets to go see One Republic, I was floored. I’m a concert junkie and have seen so many great groups. One of my earliest concert memories was watching DC Talk at our church high school group back before they were big, and getting lost in the crazy frenzy […]

Today we drove, and drove, and drove. We drove through wheat fields, over small brooks, watched the Arkansas slowly go from a dry bed of sand to a puddled gulch, to small stream in a gulch, to full-blown river, and enjoyed the space that rolled around us. In this part of the country, the land […]

Dodge City day! I have waited for this day since early childhood when my dad and I used to listen to old time radio westerns in the car on long drives home. We woke to puffy cotton falling from trees, and young toads hopping all around, the camp cat, and mosquitoes. Swarms of mosquitoes. We […]

We headed into the wild west today. We wavered on whether to take Interstate 80 or 70 across, or to meander down side roads and local highways, but in the end, we decided to take meandering highways, and to go to Dodge city. But first, lots of pictures of kids. Everyone wanted their picture taken […]

Today we were with friends. The kids really like this particular group of kids, which makes having 7 kids in one house relatively easy! Our hostess was incredibly kind and made us a hot breakfast before all the kids shuffled off to their kid things. Our girls went with them to Vacation Bible School while Judah […]

I love road trips. I really love what a person can do when there is freedom to stop and look around, to sleep in the wild, to stand physically very still and notice a million little things. So a road trip is really just a kind of spiritual training for the rest of the year […]