Ruly Road Trip 2012 – Day 17 Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Home!

The last day of a big adventure is always bittersweet. We were ready to go home in some respects, like sleeping in our own bed and stopping the unpacking, packing madness cycle. In other ways, however, like having the chance to have the whole family 

Ruly Road Trip 2012 – Day 16 – Illinois, Indiana, Ohio

We woke up day 16 of our journey just outside of Chicago. My husband described our hotel as the “largest and busiest Hampton Inn” he had ever seen. The breakfast area was huge and a large crowd of Sunday morning diners descended for waffles, eggs 

October’s Theme: Organizing for School Success and Random Blend

And . . . I’m back! I really don’t mean to keep taking these long absences from writing my blog but life just keeps happening to me (thankfully) and lately I have ended up doing a lot of unexpected projects, adjusting to a slightly different 

Ruly Road Trip 2012 – Day 15 – Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois

  We were strangely content being on the road over two weeks. Maybe we are starting to build up our traveling stamina.  The only sign of fatigue was the query from our 6-year-old: “Are we going front or back?” meaning were we headed back to 

Ruly Road Trip 2012 – Day 14 – Wyoming and Nebraska

  We left Wyoming the next morning, headed east through Nebraska.  The landscape slowly morphed from mountains to plains. You often hear the phrase “middle of nowhere” when driving through places such as this.  After all the traveling we have done across the United States,