Tina and Chris adopted two boys 4 years ago Elijah and Rylee. They’re on a journey as a new family to grow and challenge themselves by traveling around the US and road schooling full-time on a renovated school bus. They love to say “We Live on a Bus.”
If you have kids and you’ve dreamed of doing a sabbatical or a year long trip with your kids while they’re a certain age, but schooling always stops that dream in your tracks — this is the episode for you.
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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:
- Selling everything to travel full-time (with their house under contract in 8 hrs!)
- Adapting their school routines into “road schooling” (and the distinction with home schooling and a current trend called UNschooling)
- Common fears and questions they get asked about road schooling
- Learning your state’s home schooling requirements
- Ways to stay compliant with state education rules & requirements
- Field trip learning opportunities & “hours in the field”
- Example field trips, stories, and the insights gained (it’s one of the main reasons they started traveling)
- Inventing and creating an Explorer’s Workbook to help log all their field trip learnings
- Currently Airbnb hopping and “practicing bus life” (like, not using the dishwasher)
- What’s next for them & when they start road schooling full time in the skoolie (or school bus home, for the rest of us)
- And listen till the end to hear the story about how the bus got named (or named herself they say)
RESOURCES & LINKS:
Their Website: http://www.weliveonabus.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weliveonabus
The Explorer’s Notebook Travel Journal
