I’ve been traveling with my four kids for more than twenty years and although they are older now everywhere I go I am thinking in the back of my head, “What would I do here if my kids were still little?” Traveling with young kids is both the most rewarding and the most anxiety inducing…

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I have always felt that the wilderness of northern Canada and Alaska are the North American version of the African safari. The Alaska Highway stretching almost 1400 miles from Dawson Creek, BC to Delta Junction, AK offers the perfect vantage point from which to explore this untamed region. Driving the Alaska Highway is truly an…

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So we don’t fish.  I mean I did once or twice as a kid, but honestly I don’t know anything about it.  I often get these ideas in my head though that I get kind of obsessed with and learning to fish has definitely become one of those things.  (as I mentioned in previous posts…

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Today we are working on setting clothing aside not to be packed in storage. What clothing do we bring to Alaska?   Obviously for much of the getting there part of our trip we will be dealing with regular summer temperatures, but driving through Yukon and arriving in Alaska in September I suspect temperatures will…

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As the clock starts ticking down to our departure we are getting a little bit more serious about making concrete plans.  We decided selling our car and flying to Alaska and purchasing a new car there to drive home in the spring might be the best option, but guest what?  The airlines aren’t transporting dogs…

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So I am still trying to figure out how to add this to my travelschooling tab, but I think posting it as a blog post is also beneficial. I am learning all the technical stuff as I go. Generally speaking Rick does all the boring stuff for Christopher Travel like figuring out technology so I…

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While it’s definitely not a good time to travel at the moment travelschooling takes a lot of planning and now is the perfect time to get started for next year.  I usually plan my trips 10-12 months in advance.  (Except this grand adventure we are doing this year.  This one will be totally on the…

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Since I am a bit overwhelmed with the large number of variables in the next few weeks I have decided to focus a bit on my travelschooling road trips and from there we can piece together where we are going once we close on the house.  Since coronavirus continues to be an enormous concern we…

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Since I feel like there are just too many variables in planning our trip to Alaska I have decided to focus a bit more on the girls’ school plan for next year.  Every year since I have been homeschooling I come up with a school plan.  It’s basically a subject by subject list of what…

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