Category: Hard Stuff
Children Are to Be Seen and Not Heard
🤫🤐 Living on the road, the camper is home, office, schoolroom, playroom, and sometimes can even feel a bit like an escape room. It can be kinda challenging to balance everyone’s needs when you’re living basically on top of each other, day in and day out. We do feel that kids need to learn (at…
-
Lost After Dark in Great Sand Dunes National Park 😱
Have you ever noticed there’s something special about harrowing experiences? They’re super bonding (as long as they turn out ok in the end). Our most recent scare was a new one- in all our years of hiking and exploring, we’ve never lost one of us before.
Loneliness as a Fulltimer – A Tween Girl’s Perspective
The following are a few raw, honest, unedited (by me) thoughts from my 12-year-old daughter Gracie. She’s a naturally social person, and has experienced phases of painful loneliness while living on the road that at times have had her and me both in tears.
Day 1
🤢 I was sick to my stomach. Not sick sick, but very much ready to throw up with an overwhelming mix of anxiety and terror. Did you feel that way when you took the leap? We were so eager…
