Our
Travel Log
Written
in 2005:
How
you feelin? "Irie!"
All
the miles and all the smiles. Sounds like a Buffett tune, heck it might
be. When we travel, I try to keep a journal. From this journal I'll write
an essay or a story. I am much better at photographing our travels. I
have found that even though I put the locations and dates on the backs
of the thousands of images I have captured, as I get older my memory fails
and the notes I keep when we travel are now becoming more and more treasured.
What you'll find here are the notes I have kept while we homeschool on
the road. (One of these days I'll get the images into this log.) Hopefully
they'll inspire you to take your homeschool on the road! |
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Add Travel To Your Curriculum
(Guatemala, Central America, 1999)..........Read
Log Entry
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One of things homeschoolers can do with ease
is to add travel to school schedules. At the beginning
of the year I look at what sort of topics we plan to
explore during the school year, and then my student
and I plan our “field trips”. We’ve
used field trips for Art, World Culture, Foreign language,
Science, Engineering, Geography and History.
One of the best field trips we’ve added to our
curriculum was an excursion to Guatemala, Central America.
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Fossils
- Utah Style
(Vernal, Utah USA - October 2001)............Read
Log Entry
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We
took our first field trip this year to Vernal, Utah
to visit Dinosaur National Monument’s Dinosaur
Quarry and Dinosaur National Monument. The Dinosaur
Quarry is very interesting. It houses a formation that
looks like a wave of fossils. |
Snow
Birds Like to Study Coral in the Winter
( Key West Florida, USA - December,
2001).......Read
Log Entry
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One of things home schoolers can do with ease
is to add travel to our school schedules. At the beginning
of the year I look at what sort of topics we plan to
explore during the school year, and then my student
and I plan our field trips.
One of the subjects we have studied, in December and
January in the past is coral reefs. Coral reefs in themselves
can be fascinating, but think of the possibilities as
far as travel goes! We have one of the best reefs in
the world to study right here in the United States.
The Florida Keys can be studied for one or two days
or for an entire week (that depends on the level of
snow in your area!) Our agenda included a glass bottom
boat ride to view reef life, a dolphin encounter, a
sunset and sunrise walk at the shore (there are no beaches,
as it is all reef in the Florida keys).
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Snow
Birds Like to Study Coral in the Winter II
( Belize, Central America - February
2002) 
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It’s
Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity
(Memphis, Tennessee USA- June 2003)........Read
Log Entry
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Memphis Tennessee in June. It’s not the heat
that gets you , it’s the humidity. You walk into the
parking lot loaded with buses that announce they are from
Oak Ridge Missionary Baptist Church, Huffman Baptist Church-
Birmingham Alabama, First Baptist Church - Madison Mississippi
and Baptist Missionary Association - Picayune Mississippi.
You quickly notice that you are the only white person present
with the exception of your 11 year old companion and 2 others
you notice from a far. You realize that the next part of your
journey will be about the color of your skin. You see the
1950’s style motel, the name “Lorraine Motel”
and remember this was the place that the Reverend Martin Luther
King Jr. was assassinated... |
A
Little Bit About Irie
(West Indies, Caribbean 2004).....Read
Log Entry
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How do you describe the Caribbean to someone
who hasn't experienced it? That's what I tried to do with
my student. You can't describe it - well not really. The pictures
you'll see on these pages will not color the sea the right
shades of blue, will not allow you to feel the salt air, will
not allow you to know the culture of the Caribbean. You'll
have to go there to enjoy that! These web pages are intended
to introduce you to 12 beautiful islands in the Caribbean.
The photographs on these pages will allow you to preview some
of the sites and people you'll find in the West Indies. These
pages will also introduce you to some of the "pirates"
you may find there sailing on Windjammer ships. |
I'm Pretty Sure It's Not Poison Ivy
(Cabbage Key Florida, USA February 2005)....Read
Log Entry
LOG:
DAY 1 & 2
The whole point of Cabbage Key was to study Botany and do
nothing. That’s what we did for seven days. Cabbage
Key is directly across from marker 60 on the Florida Intercoastal
Waterway. That’s due west form Pine Island, Florida,
USA. . Sanibel and Captiva islands are 8 miles to the south.
The high point of this morning so far was watching Chip the
dockmaster at Cabbage Key replace the Channel Mark signs stolen
away by hurricane Charley. This high point however was soon
replaced by our sighting a lone dolphin scoot by the dock.
We debated if reading "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest
Hemingway is considered doing nothing. But we decided reading
was an activity, especially when it’s Hemingway, so
we went back to watching the dolphins and the Osprey. My student
was learning that it was very difficult to do nothing.... |
Travels
with Daphne
(Cross Country Adventure in photos, June 2004)
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Our Blog:
Travelin'
With The Kid
Entries:
Top
Ten Paddler Tips
(Algonquin
Provincial Park - Ontario, Canada - August 2005).........Read
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Beef
Jerky, Hells Bay and the River of Grass
(Everglades
National Park- Florida, USA - February 2006).........Read
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What
I Did on My Summer Vacation
(Kayaking
in Ohio and Kentucky, USA - Summer 2006)........Read
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It's
Good to Be Sunburnt and Greek
(Sarasota,
Florida USA February 2007)......Read
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Windjammer
Ships and Pirate Adventures: St. Maarten
(French
West Indies, Caribbean - February 2007) .................Read
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Windjammer
Ships and Pirate Adventures: St. Barts
(French
West Indies - February 2007)...............Read
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Windjammer
Ships and Pirate Adventures: Nevis
(French
West Indies, Caribbean - February 2007) ........Read
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Windjammer
Ships and Pirate Adventures: Statia
(French
West Indies, Caribbean - February 2007)............Read
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Windjammer
Ships and Pirate Adventures: Anguilla
(French
West Indies, Caribbean - February 2007)............Read
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Not
Back to School: September 2007
(Outer
Banks, North Carolina - September 2007)............Read
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Travelin'
With The Kid in 2008
(Dutch West Indies, Caribbean -- A letter from Friends)........Read
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The
Caine Mutiny and Other Snowbird Pursuits - The Wakulla Kid
(South West Florida, USA -- 2008).......................Read
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The
Caine Mutiny and Other Snowbird Pursuits - The Venice Beach Mooch
(South West Florida, USA -- 2008).......................Read
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The
Caine Mutiny and Other Snowbird Pursuits - Florida 2008
(South West Florida, USA -- 2008).......................Read
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