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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.
11 stops behind us, the Tetons and Yellowstone ahead. Tap a marker to follow along.
- parks visited
- 8
- left
- 55
Every national park, and where we are on the route. Tap a marker for the park.
- Visited
- Upcoming
- Someday
- Detour
- Here — in Helena, MT
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 Grand Teton, Yellowstone, Theodore Roosevelt, and Badlands, 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 15, 2026
The mountain stayed in the cloud
Two days of rain on the west side of Glacier, a whiteout at the top of Going-to-the-Sun Road, and then a third day that gave up a grizzly, a bald eagle, a moose, and twelve miles of broken road in to Many Glacier.
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Latest destination · MT
Glacier National Park
Going-to-the-Sun Road and 37 named glaciers in northern Montana, the range the Blackfeet call the Backbone of the World.
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