Raise the question askers.
Meet the Roam School Family.
RoamSchoolFamily is a family of four roam schooling our way through the 64 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 64 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.
For where we are right now and where we're headed next, the map on this page is the running answer. More about us, including how we do school on the road.
Where we are.
29 stops behind us. Tap a marker to follow along.
- parks visited
- 21
- left
- 43
- Visited
- Upcoming
- Someday
- Detour
- Here — Zion National Park, UT
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?
Headed our way? Next up: Zion, Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, and Chiricahua, 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 · October 31, 2026
The fog came up to the road
Rain at Bryce Canyon, fog thick enough to lose the campground, a dry Halloween in Kanab, and a morning of rabbit enclosures at Best Friends.
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Latest destination · UT
Bryce Canyon National Park
A compact amphitheater of pink Claron hoodoos on the Paunsaugunt Plateau, with some of the darkest skies in the lower-48 park system.
Older entries are in Posts.