Comments on: STAYING CLOSER TO HOME

By: Anais

Anais — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:28:55 +0000

Great Staycation stories and suggestions everyone. Thanks for sharing

By: Sue

Sue — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:55:19 +0000

Our homescool group does field trips around town a couple times a month. For our closing get-together we've been planning all year to camp at a place in another state, four hours away. With the price of gas we changed this to our nearest state park, which is only an hour away. The moms all breathed a collective sigh of relief knowing we aren't going to waste as much gas. And the kids are thrilled we're still going camping.

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:27:26 +0000

I love that you took the Goats for a walk. Too Cute!

Carolyn

By: Ken Kunst

Ken Kunst — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:06:35 +0000

This summer we'll be involved with our own "victory garden" efforts, and a neighborhood garden two doors down that I helped to organize. We like to camp up in the incredible redwood forests along the eel river every summer, but it is a 3+ hour drive, and the drive will be expensive this time! For just a few days, it really does re-energize one's spirit to be amongst those trees, and swim in beautiful river water. Living in Napa, where everybody from all over the world comes, sometimes it helps to get away from it all. We'll see what happens...I never plan too far ahead anyway.

By: Devin Quince

Devin Quince — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:14:10 +0000

Just took little jaunt to camp with some other homesteaders here in Minnesota now that most of the crops are in the ground and growing. We also enjoy staycationing around the stead. No crowds or touristy things to deal with.

By: AnnaMarie

AnnaMarie — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:38:33 +0000

I've made my home such a haven that my husband and I have no desire to go away from it. We have traveled the U.S. extensively in your younger days but other than our driving need to actually *live* 2500 miles away I don't have any need to go on short stays to other places.

Your blog makes me want goats more and more. I keep wondering how my Corgis are going to react to these interesting creatures.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:37:21 +0000

I rarely take an actual vacation per se, and won't be taking anything official this summer either. I'm really just looking forward to staying home, working some more on making my apartment more of a homestead, writing my dissertation, and just taking it easy. If I do travel at all, it will be the way I normally go, by train or by bus.

By: Absent

Absent — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:37:17 +0000

When my family had Nubian dairy goats, we would take them for walks near our house. Your entry brought back fond memories.

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:20:48 +0000

Yup staying home also! But we rarely go places anyways. We went 2 places last year due to sickness' and a death in the family. But we enjoy staying at home. We have our sometimes daily trips to the local lake for some fishing and camping, if we really want to get away.!!

Help others around here set there tobacco also. And the kids go to grandmas house alot!

By: luvnschooln

luvnschooln — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:09:23 +0000

One of the many benefits of being homeschoolers is NOT having to travel when:
1. it's crowded
2. it's HOT
3. gas prices are higher!

I'll be enjoying being closer to home without the busy school schedule, tending my square-foot garden, and having time to do more cooking from scratch and crafts.

Thanks for your website- it's an inspiration!