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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.
20 stops behind us. Tap a marker to follow along.
- parks visited
- 13
- left
- 50
- Visited
- Upcoming
- Someday
- Detour
- Here — Denver, CO
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 Rocky Mountain, Great Sand Dunes, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, and Mesa Verde, 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 · September 30, 2026
They sold the barracks for a dollar apiece
The barracks at Heart Mountain were auctioned off to homesteaders after the war. The camp held more than 14,000 Japanese Americans and left behind three hospital buildings and a chimney you can see from the highway.
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Latest destination · SD
Badlands National Park
Eroded buttes and mixed-grass prairie in western South Dakota, the country the Oglala Lakota call mako sica, the bad lands.
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