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5 Family Tents for any budget – $100 to $10k+

April 28, 2019May 1, 2019 by Crismateski (BlkWgn)

The 5 Best Family Tents for any Budget from $100 to $10,000 +

The 5 Best Family Tents for any Budget from $100 to $10,000 +

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Swagging across the country with Outback Swags

April 28, 2019August 31, 2016 by Crismateski (BlkWgn)

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So what is Swagging?

Swag Tent — On the banks of the Missouri River in South Dakota

Swagging is to travel with one’s personal belongings in a bundle, and that is what I did from New Jersey to Southern California with my Outback Swags Pioneer Tent keeping me comfortable all the way.

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Categories Review Tags American Adventurist, BlkWgn, Camping, Gear, Outback Swag, outdoors, Overland, Roadtrip, Tent, travel 4 Comments

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We spent a beautiful morning with our co-op today

We spent a beautiful morning with our co-op today celebrating Dia De Los Muertos and learning a bit about Mexico. The kids dressed up, and colored little books about Mexico, and learned some Spanish words!

Thank you so much to @psawyer812 and @nature_seeker30 for setting up this beautiful celebration.

Another phenomenal @americanadventurist So Cal Mou

Another phenomenal @americanadventurist So Cal Mountain Rendezvous in the books! We are always among family at these events, but this year was even more special because we had some very special homeschool besties come and camp with us for the first time. (The first time of many)
The weather was beautiful, with a little adventure of rain giving us just enough time to eat yummy food at the cookout and then stopped just long enough to get some trunk or treating in.
My heart is full.

Baby Wagon's first fundraiser for our amazing hom

Baby Wagon's first fundraiser for our amazing homeschool co-op @wildandfree.foothills is active!

If you are interested in a dozen dounuts, hit us up! We send out digital gift certificates that are good across the country.

I'm not about her going door to door, so this is the most efficient way I can get the word out.

Thanks! ❤️

Hometown history at its finest. We spent an intere

Hometown history at its finest. We spent an interesting hour or two with @cityofchinogov at our local historic schoolhouse museum and Harvest. The old schoolhouse holds at least 150 years of local history. We had a math lesson on an old cash register from the old hardware store (which became the Bank of America, which became the @chinoyouthmuseum that we know and love today), made some butter, planted some beans, met Joe the dairy cow, and even toured the old jail.

This kids first day of school went swimmingly. I c

This kids first day of school went swimmingly. I can't believe how much she's grown over the past year.

There will be more to come, but we opened the year with an amazing field trip to a local Folk Music center, and ice cream with some of our co-op family.

We can't wait to see where this year takes us.

Also, she's still a little firecracker 🧨🧨🧨

Slow homeschool moment this morning: We were playi

Slow homeschool moment this morning:
We were playing with paper dolls, it's a vintage looking set and the styles speak to that. Coloring in a nurses uniform led to a Google rabbit hole about why nurses uniforms were white and red, and that led to a whole history of nurses fashions from whale boned corsets and gray woolen gowns of Florence Nightengale, to the scrubs of today. We also used the timeline we found to deduce that the outfit we were coloring is probably remeniscint of something that may have been worn in the 50s or 60s.

Whew. What a lesson from one little random question about a red cross on a paper hat.

We had a beautiful day with our homeschool co-op f

We had a beautiful day with our homeschool co-op family today at the creek. It was a much needed quiet, peaceful day in nature, and another sun dappled homeschool memory for the kidlets.

I love that we get to be a part of this community.

We spent a very mellow 4th of July camping on the

We spent a very mellow 4th of July camping on the central coast. The day consisted of spending time at the Morro Bay Natiral History Museum, watching birds, making tracks, and watching puppet shows. Then we did our Junior Ranger book while watching the otters (can't beat that classroom). Then, as the fog rolled in, we walked the rear walkway on the embarcadero and watched the bay life. We ended the evening with dinner by the ocean and one lone firework that made it past the fog. All in all a perfect escape from the heat to the south, and a very nice way to spend the holiday.

Hunter worked really hard on the Jumior Ramger book and got sworn in right before we left this morning. We've done a bunch of National Parks, but this is her first state park badge, and she's super proud.

We aren't used to staying in campgrounds, as dispersed camping offers more privacy, but this one was quiet and clean, and even full for a holiday weekend, not at all crowded feeling.

We had a little nature walk with some of our @wild

We had a little nature walk with some of our @wildandfree.foothills family this last Thursday before it got too hot.

Not only was it beautiful, but the kids made some really cool observations including the passion fruit flower looking like a frilly skirt from Livy, and worked together to fill out their bingo cards (Hunter declared herself on web watch)

They chased lizards in the sun together, spent time fanning themselves and looked for spider webs in the shelter of a rose covered portico, watched turtles and dragonflies at the pond, ran through sprinklers on the grass, and climbed through the roots in the dappled shade of beautiful trees.

Just a little bit of what our homschool days look like. More often than not these days are a mess of love and chaos, but when we come together like this, they become these soft beautiful memories and I love that we get to share in them.

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