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Road Trip

One of the reasons I love homeschooling is because we can pick up and go anytime we please. When my husband suggested on a whim for us to. take a road trip after visiting family in TN, that is just what we did. I jumped! We took a long way home. So from stopping at his old Army base at Fort Campbell, KY all the way to our las stop of the Hoover Dam in Nevada/AZ - the kids got to see so many things. I find it quite startling how easy it is for them to even find the states on the map after we have gone through them. Our plan is to get a big map off of Etsy to put pins in for the states we have visited. 

Here is a list of some of the things we got to see: 
Fort Campbell, KY
St. Louis, MO Gateway Arch
Kansas City Wizard of Oz Museum, KS
Kansas City Chiefs Stadium
Kansas City Royals Stadium
Kansas City Art Museum
Denver Broncos Stadium, CO
Buford, WY Population of 1
Tree in the Rock, WY
Salt Lake City, UT Mormon Temple
Salt Lake, UT
Las Vegas, NV
Hoover Dam, NV 

Enjoy some pictures of our adventure. 





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