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Meet the Roam School Family.
RoamSchoolFamily is a family of four roam schooling our way through the 63 U.S. national parks. Erika and I met in San Francisco, raised Big and Little there, then moved north to a Portland suburb, and we are both on sabbatical from leadership roles in tech. There is a small window, a few years where the four of us can do this together before it costs Big and Little something, and we are spending it on the road.
We're four people in a vehicle, working our way through the 63 U.S. national parks and the country between them. Big does math at the picnic table in the morning. Little is on a "draw what you see" rotation that has produced, to date, eleven bison and one ranger's hat. Erika keeps the rig running. Cy writes.
Right now we're working north. Desert behind us, the Cascades ahead. More about us, including how we do school on the road.
Where we are.
15 stops behind us. Tap a marker to follow along.
- parks visited
- 10
- left
- 53
- Visited
- Upcoming
- Someday
- Detour
- Here — Medora, ND
Every stop, visited and ahead, is listed on Destinations.
Follow and listen.
Episodes from the road, recorded at the parks we've rolled out of.
Headed our way?
We're working north toward Theodore Roosevelt, Badlands, Wind Cave, and Rocky Mountain, none of them stamped yet. If you've been, tell us what not to miss: trails, timing, where Big and Little should look up.
Lately.
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Latest post · August 31, 2026
All of recorded history fits under a fingernail
The dig we picked started eight miles down an unpaved road, so we drove to Fossil Butte instead. Along the fence there, every nine inches is a million years, and everything anybody ever wrote down fits in a gap you can barely get a fingernail into.
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Latest destination · WY
Fossil Butte National Monument
The bottom of a lake that dried up fifty million years ago, now the pale caprock on a butte standing in the sagebrush.
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