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The Car-Camping Guide: Road Trip Tips and Tricks

August 25, 2014 By Val Weston 4 Comments

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Before I left on The Pacific Northwest Tour, I shared my road trip essentials... the things I do to prepare from a safety standpoint. Now for a random selection of road trip tips and tricks I use … [Read more...] about The Car-Camping Guide: Road Trip Tips and Tricks

Filed Under: Outdoors, Travel, Uncategorized Tagged With: car-camping, Guides, road trip

The Car-Camping Guide: Road Trip Essentials

May 12, 2014 By Val Weston 3 Comments

You've probably figured out by now that I spend a lot of time on the road. There are a great many facets to making a road trip come together and, as you can imagine, there's a method to my madness in … [Read more...] about The Car-Camping Guide: Road Trip Essentials

Filed Under: Travel, Uncategorized Tagged With: car-camping, emergency, forester, Guides, road trip, safety, subaru

Going Caching: Georgia’s Geocaching Mega-Event

August 8, 2013 By Val Weston Leave a Comment

Anyone who follows the adventures of Camp Granola knows we're nuts for geocaching, even going so far as to drive across the country to geocache the E.T. Highway. Sometimes I sound like a broken … [Read more...] about Going Caching: Georgia’s Geocaching Mega-Event

Filed Under: Outdoors, Uncategorized Tagged With: geocaching, georgia, georgia state parks, going caching, Guides, mega event

On the Road: Our Favorite Audio Edutainment

August 28, 2012 By Val Weston Leave a Comment

Last week I highlighted my thoughts on experiential education in a broad sense. I also mentioned that we do have materials we use that are the platform for where we start exploring the world around … [Read more...] about On the Road: Our Favorite Audio Edutainment

Filed Under: Travel, Uncategorized Tagged With: car talk, experiential education, Guides, homeschooling, roadschooling, unschooling

Camp Kids

July 10, 2012 By Val Weston 4 Comments

As you well know by now, we go camping. A lot. One of the elements of our adventures that helps things chug along is that I put my kids to work. I put them to work at home too, but that's another … [Read more...] about Camp Kids

Filed Under: Outdoors, Uncategorized Tagged With: camping, Guides, kids, parenting

Geocaching 101

January 16, 2012 By Val Weston 6 Comments

NOTE: I initially wrote this as a guest post for Our Days Are Just Filled but obviously it fits here quite nicely as well. Plus I left out an important aspect of geocaching in the original so I tacked … [Read more...] about Geocaching 101

Filed Under: Outdoors, Uncategorized Tagged With: geocaching, GPS, Guides

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