One of the things we love about traveling is spending time with friends & family we wouldn’t otherwise see. Whether we are traveling through their town, or make a specific detour, these visits are fun and exciting for all of us. We’ve stayed with or nearby our friends the Graces twice now. Once for Thanksgiving 2013…
We love listening to audio books as we drive. We’ve worked our way through the Percy Jackson Series, the Enchanted Forest Series, and now we are on book 4 of the Heroes of Olympus. Even though we don’t drive 10 hours days (ever) listening to a book is an easy way to keep kids entertained…
Have you guys checked out Libravox? It takes a bit of exploration to find titles and then get used to some of the (non-professional) readers – but we’ve been mining their library for a couple of years. More for MsBoyink and I to fall asleep to at night. But they have some Nesbitt, Prisoner of Zenda, the Greek Classics, etc.ReplyCancel
Some of our fellow travelers have been busy, and have put together the Family Adventure Podcast. They interview families that have spent significant time traveling with their kids. Many of their travelers have been boat families, sailing around the world for extended periods. They also include RV families, and aim to include all sorts of…
I’m ready for my kids to be long distance hikers. I realize they are still little (8, 6, and 4 years old) but I MISS hiking. Pre-kid and even when Rachel was little and would fit in a backpack, we would take a Saturday and do 8-13 mile hikes OVER mountain passes. It was glorious….
Good tips 🙂 I just realized on our last hike that even though it was really hot and long neither of my boys whined! End in sight! They still have their moments but they used to switch who was going to be happy and who was going to be misarable! That has not happened in a while! I am so excited!ReplyCancel
Good for you conquering that long hike with the kids! Yay! Something else I’ve found that works… tell the kids stories along the way, or with older kids, playing the story turn taking game, or whatever other game that comes to mind. Can pass some good time. Plus my kids aren’t familiar with all the true fairy tales since they are so young, so that’s always fun! 🙂 Scavenger hunts are fun too, the generic nature ones you can find online work. 🙂 Or play it like Bingo! Then prize for the first to get bingo, etc. 🙂 So fun! Sounds like you guys are having a blast!ReplyCancel
Two years ago when we did a 5 week trip to California I had a lightbulb moment. We had packed all our clothes loosely into duffle bags, and about 6 days in I seriously couldn’t find anything as the clothes were jumbled, rumpled, and scattered pretty much everywhere. It was a disaster. In desperation I…
These look great, but I have a few questions. Approximately how many pairs of kid pants/shirts fit in one small bag? If I understand what you wrote correctly, you don’t use them for everyday clothes in the airstream? Do you think they would be too cumbersome? We are currently preparing to full-time/part-time and trying to figure out kids clothes storage. There is a huge tv cabinet in the bunk room that we don’t plan to put a tv in, and I’m wondering if these bags could help make that cabinet useful…
Your blog is a huge inspiration to us, thank you!ReplyCancel
You are welcome! If we roll up the shirts pretty tight I think we can fit 4 or 5 next to each other with a pair of pants or shorts laid across the top. Cara’s we can fit more just because her clothes are small. You can jam them pretty full as well. I think it would work great! We have a large bucket from the container store under the kid’s beds that we throw them in with all the off season clothes. In the closet we bought a drawer system (also from the container store) that has their everyday wear. They each get two drawers. It’s not much, but then we don’t need much!ReplyCancel
Great advice! 🙂 Glad we were able to gave you guys over twice now.
Thanks Mike! Us too!
I love this post!
Thanks Karen!