How a family of eight learned to pack light: packing lists for kids, calm road trips, and life on the road in an RV.
A minimalist packing list for kids comes down to a few counts: for a weekend, about three outfits, one pair of pajamas, one warm layer and one comfort item; for a week, five outfits and a plan to do laundry once. Babies and toddlers need more spares, teens need fewer extras than they think, and…
The Creation Museum is a museum about the origins of the earth in Petersburg, Kentucky. To begin with, it is a beautiful museum. The premises are large, and you can plan on easily spending an entire day, or two, there. It is worth noting that there is a lot of controversy over The Creation Museum….
In autumn 2017, our family of eight moved out of our 3,000 square foot house and hit the road in an RV. We’d been minimizing since 2016, and this was the big step: pack up what was left in just a few days, and trade the cleaning, tidying and maintaining for more time playing, exploring…
The fastest way to pack light as a family is to stop letting everyone pack alone. One parent decides what each person needs based on the weather forecast, every child brings their pile to that parent to be checked, and all the bags go into one shared container. For our family of eight, that took…
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