We visited Cross of Christ in Universal City and explored the area from there. Of course, Rebecca made a fellow tree-loving friend. Eliana found someone her own size to (not) play with, and Steve found …
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Go See Daniel Dexter!
In El Paso, Texas, at Christ Our Redeemer, or Cristo Nuestro Redentor, we met some amazing people. I know we say that often, but there are some seriously amazing people out there! We are blessed …
Continue readingValentine’s Day Post-It Note Party in the Trailer
Nothing says like cherry tomatoes, peanut butter and apple sandwiches, and chicken soup. Throw in these little coma-inducers with sprinkles and pink frosting for Becca and the boys, and Hannah’s heavenly homemade sugarless, egg-free, dairy-free …
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Look at these two girls! You’d hardly believe they were 40! You’d hardly believe that between them they take care of 10 children and two husbands! (Who wrote this? Whoever you are, Christy loves ya!) …
Continue readingThe Man Who Wouldn’t Jump
by Christy My little girls and I went on a rock collecting adventure while the rest of the family got lost hiking around The Bell in Sedona. While Rebecca was inspecting her treasures, I spent …
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If you’ve followed The Travel Bags for any length of time, you know that we love being out in God’s amazing Creation! It’s our oxygen. So there’s no surprise that we headed up to the …
Continue readingOur Run-in With the Law
Sure we look innocent on the outside: Clean-cut, roadschooling family of nine touring the country on a Christian music mission. But we hold a deep, dark secret. Sometimes… sometimes we set off church alarms. And …
Continue readingA Roadschooling Field Trip – Montezuma’s Castle and Well
This is just one way roadschoolers learn without opening their textbooks. Some people call it a field trip. We call it life. Up in Sedona there are cliff dwellings. The site we visited was called …
Continue readingTrading in a Home for a Music Mission – What It Looks Like
Many people have been asking about our past week, what it’s like packing up a family, a house, a business, a mission, and a school, and hitting the road indefinitely. Here are a few glimpses …
Continue readingLook Who’s Driving!
Before we hit the open road, Hannah took the test to get her learner’s permit. That’s “temps” for you Wisconsinites. She passed with flying colors, except for one thing: the application. This is how it …
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