RV Trip 2024

Two Month Trip On the Road

This is a Homeschooling Project where our family will be on the road for two months in a 29 ft travel trailer and our Chevy Passenger Van.

Welcome to our family project.

UPDATE: This trip has been canceled. We were intending to be at our son’s graduation from Basic Training but in our test run with the camp trailer we discovered several leaks in the roof that could not be adequately repaired in time. We also ran more numbers and determined with our current project load (which is draining about $3000+ from our budget each month) we could not, in good conscience, extend those for three to four months while we traveled. Instead, we chose to move the trailer to my wife’s house to work full time on that property to get it ready to put on the market. We are tentatively targeting March 1st for this. Once this is done, and we are back at our other house (the one being remodeled for our adult daughter and my mother to live in) then we will revisit a similar trip like this. We would like to get out of debt first, though.

We will be leaving home on or around Dec 27th 2023 to launch our trip across the United States, with the ultimate goal of visiting our 17 (soon to be 18) year old son who will be graduating from the US Army Basic Training Program at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.

We hope to visit 15 states along the way there and back, traveling predominately through southern states, but our actual route will depend greatly on current weather conditions.

We will be driving our Chevy Passenger Van while pulling our current home, a 29 ft JFly Travel Trailer. This is also a homeschool project, so the kids will be posting various assignments, photos, videos, and updates along the way.

Here is a map of our currently projected route. It will be updated as we go, subject to change at any moment. 😳

This is a current map of the predicted weather this winter.

Okay. Because of the outlook this winter, I am slightly worried about this trip.

Below are blog posts from the kids and myself related to the trip. They are arranged from most recent back: