For us, a huge part of the San Francisco experience (or any experience, for that matter) is the food. The main reason we went to San Francisco was for Boudin sourdough bread (okay, and to …
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Cousin Ashley
We didn’t leave our whole hearts in San Francisco, but the part of our hearts that we did leave behind is firmly and forever attached to this darling girl, Ashley. She’s our niece… She’s our …
Continue readingAwwwww.
That last post lacked the awwwwww factor, so here ya go. All together now: “Awwwwww.”
Continue readingI Left my Heart in San Francisco…Well, Not Really
We spent the day in San Francisco. San Francisco is a city like no other. No other! You could see it better if someone would take all those silly cables off the Bay Bridge. I …
Continue readingCheeseball Machine Inventors
Meet the Kant girls–Amanda and Caleigh! These two remarkable girls invented and built a cheeseball machine. Insert five cents and it dispenses five cheeseballs. Genius! There’s only one thing about the whole cheeseball machine experience …
Continue readingHospitality and New and Old Friends
Pastor Kant in Vallejo of northern California graciously opened up his church for our use while we were there. And we mean totally opened up his church! There was a huge fellowship hall and a …
Continue readingHomeschoolers of Good Shepherd
Take a look at all these unsocialized homeschool kids! What’s that they’re doing? Socializing?! Well, who knew! And here are those same unsocialized homeschool kids respectfully listening to Stephen Bautista’s lesson about guitars and his …
Continue readingArmstrong State Park
Christy has wanted to see the giant redwoods since she was a (cute) little schoolgirl singing: “From the redwood forest to the gulfstream waters, This land was made for you and me!” Finally, she made …
Continue readingCorks Come from Cork Trees. Duh!
As “roadschoolers,” we are always on the lookout for educational opportunities, so we jumped at the free tour of the Korbel winery (or is it a champagnery?). I’m not going to tell you what we …
Continue readingNice, Safe Little Beach
What do The Travel Bags do on their day off? Have a picnic at the beach! Portuguese Beach just north of Bodega Bay, to be precise. It came highly recommended by the members of the …
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