Tag: <span>family adventures</span>

Closing Out 2023 & Exciting Plans For The New Year

Happy New Year from Our Kaleidoscope Homestead!  We hope your holiday season was filled with joy and happy memories, and that you’re feeling refreshed and motivated for the wonderful year ahead of us.  The past few months have been very busy for us, and we have a couple of very …

Our California RV Adventure: Los Angeles and Route 1

In February of 2020, we took our five kids on an epic RV road trip all over California.  Our trip started off with a visit to my sister, near Los Angeles, and then it was time for the real adventure.  Our first stops were the La Brea Tar Pits & …

Monday Medley: Summer Update From The Homestead

Happy Summer!  It’s time for a little update on our family’s journey to build a homestead that will support our dream of financial semi-independence, and all the things we enjoy along the way.   Family The kids have been out of school for a couple of weeks now, and they …

Our California RV Adventure: Route and Itinerary

We took all five kids on a month-long RV adventure in California back in February of 2020.  The process of coming up with the route and itinerary for the trip was quite the process.  Our trip ended up including a variety of destinations that provided us with so many wonderful …

Our California RV Adventure: Ideas and Planning

In February of 2020, we explored California in an RV with our five kids.  We had been discussing a cross-country road trip with the family for years, so deciding to take a smaller RV road trip as a sort of test run would have been a very practical idea.  Although …

2020 Update: Continuing On Our Path, Changes, and New Plans

And just like that . . . 2019 is over.  Everyone seems to be discussing resolutions and reflecting, not only on the past year, but the last decade.  As we enter the New Year, my thoughts are also focused on goals and accomplishments, including the past progress of this blog …

Our Frugal Family Road Trip To Virginia

What a fun and frugal family adventure!  We used the President’s Day school break to take a road trip down to Virginia and visited Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown Settlement, Virginia Beach, and Norfolk.  We also spent some time with my brother-in-law and his wife in Washington, D.C.  The trip was perfect: …

2019 Update: Finances, Life & Plans For The Future

Greetings from The Smith Family!  We hope that 2019 is going well for you so far.  This blog is quite overdue for an update on our progress with finances and everything else that has been going on with us.  Read on to learn about just how much debt we’ve destroyed …

Family Road Trips: Exploring The World Together

Few things in life offer families a unique bonding opportunity the way road trips do, and seeing as this year one in three Americans will be on the road (the highest ever recorded) it’s safe to say most Americans would agree. Finding a great destination, planning out all the stops and staying …