We are up before dawn as we need to set up for the 1st day of school. The girls will be using their computers for Zoom sessions at our dinette as it is too cold outside. Dinette also doubles as mine and Sol’s bed, so, we need to be out of it and having assembled …

In the morning we are excited to go. Sol makes pancakes for breakfast and we load in the car. The camp site is only about 4 blocks from the entrance to the park but the park is so vast, spanning Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho that to get anywhere within it we would drive at least …

On the 30th day of our travels Sol is up early. While we fight to sleep some more he has done the dishes, organized the car and is ready to go. We are determined to arrive in West Yellow Stone tonight. So, away we drive into the plains of Idaho with coffee cups at the …

I work in the morning while kids leisurely wake up. It’s 44 degrees outside in the morning but rather quickly warms up to around 80 in a couple of hours. With that, Sol takes girls to explore the local rivers. They are lucky and find a swimming hole where you could jump in from the …

I work on ‘my’ bench again while Sol packs up camp and girls catch the last frogs. They come through town to pick me up around noon.We say good bye to Mendocino and are headed up the coast almost to the border between California and Oregon. We make a quick stop in Eurika. Sol convinces …

Early in the morning Sol drops me off ocean side and I affix myself to the corner of ‘my’ bench again. It is considerably colder today.Me and my computer’s battery last about 3 hours as it is hard to type with fingers that don’t bend. I am very alert and productive though. I walk back …

Aug 23 – Good bye Cambria. 2 weeks in Cambria and not nearly enough. There is still so much to do, to visit, to accomplish.. We are thankful for the time we had. Girls are understandably upset and so are we. It is hard to say good bye. Sasha leaves off with taking Nana to …

It is 8.23.2020 as I am writing this. Working full time while running a family on the cross country trip sure is pretty time consuming and exhausting. I promised myself, however, that I will keep up with the blog because we will need it at some point in out lives either as a lessons learned …