a modern family adventure with the elliotts

Our Adventure

The Elliott family continues traveling across America and beyond for the ultimate road trip adventure. It’s our third year, baby!

This isn’t just one long trip, but a series of close calls, speeding tickets, last-minute changes, quick flights, overdue assignments, eccentric natives — plus, glorious scenery, historic neighborhoods, capitol buildings and strange food.

Oh, and cute kids and animals.

Our family adventure also has a 21st-century flair, incorporating the latest interactive technologies and social-media applications, from Foursquare to Skype to lots of uploads to our Skydrive accounts. If there’s an applicable technology, we’re packing it.

Well, as long as there’s room in the luggage. (Or our car.)

But the real reason you’ll want to follow us isn’t that we’re interesting or have come up with a new twist on the American road trip — though both are true. No, you’ll want to come along for the chaos.

With three homeschooled kids, two entrepreneurs trying to earn a living, three kitties back home and the inevitable conflicts of being on the road together, you’ll want to check in to read the next chapter.

Vacation rental homes we’ve visited.

Holiday Inn Resorts we’ve visited.

Where are we’re going next?

Alberta, Canada

Australia

Colorado

California

Florida

Tasmania

Washington D.C.

  • http://www.executive-lodging.com Kim Rupp

    Hello Elliotts,

    We would love you to take your trip from Minnesota and venture through South Dakota! A trip across the United States without stopping in the beautiful Black Hills of SD, home of one of our national monuments, Mt Rushmore. Check out our website, but you may want to check out http://www.travelsd.com and http://www.blackhillsbadlands.com to convince you why you can’t miss South Dakota!

    Sincerely,
    Kim Rupp
    Executive Lodging of the Black Hills

  • http://www.soultravelers3.com soultravelers3

    Looks like an exciting adventure! If you are like us, you may not want to ever stop ( we’re into our 6th year of non-stop world travel as a family).

    Funny, we will be passing ships soon. We’re in coastal Spain this June and July at the beach in Barcelona and after exploring Romania and Budapest in August, we will fly to Florida in September for a USA road trip before heading back to another winter in Asia.

    Going slow with a focus on education are the best ways for families, so looking forward to reading all your adventures!

  • Cindy Griffiths

    Looking forward to hearing and seeing more of your adventure! Have fun, learn lots, and be safe!

  • Mary Dillon McTevia

    Now Chris, If you’re going to the Great Lakes you know you have to visit northern Michigan. We’re in gorgeous Harbor Springs with a hobby farm-alpacas, horses, goats, sheep, duckies galore. Feel free to visit!

  • http://twitter.com/homeschoolcash Empowered Homeschool

    This is so awesome. We are about to embark on a similar journey and my daughter came across your page while we were working on our strategy. We are going from FL to CA. We are trying to make sure we have everything in order from sponsors, to classes that I will teach for other homeschoolers along the way, to running my business and still keeping up with our own homeschooling so yeah…you are giving me some hope!!!