Now entering…. Indiana! State #17 of 50-States-Before-They-Graduate. Stops for this trip were planned solely from the recommendations of Half-a-Hundred Acre Wood readers! For our Mid-Eastern States Itinerary, click here. Our family just barely made it into Indiana on our big Mid-Eastern States trip. Our only stop was Lincoln’s Boyhood Home in Lincoln City, IN. The five […]
Wrappin’ it up: Christmas Wrap 2020
Twenty-twenty has been quite a year to remember. Let’s recount our adventures from January to December. Discovery Park, Winter Jam, and David’s Fourteen All came before the days of mask quarantine. We visited a museum full of machine pinballs And hopped all around to Tennessee waterfalls. We toured Old Stone Fort while COVID we did […]
Visit the Nina and the Pinta (but not the Santa Maria)
Let’s step back in time to the 15th Century as we climb aboard a caravel, a type of ship used during the Age of Discovery…. Three times over the past seven years, our family has had the opportunity to explore a floating living history museum comprised of replicas of two of Columbus’ ships, the Nina […]
Great Big Ole Book Giveaway 2017
This giveaway has ended. Thanks to everyone who entered! Scroll down to see the results! It’s that time again! Yep, it’s time for our second annual Great Big Ole Book Giveaway! As our family reorganized our bookshelves this summer, we decided to release a few of our books to bless another family who may wish […]
Early America History Trip: Northeastern Loop
We’ve finished 48 of 48. Talk about #scheduleinterrupted! When I started looking at our upcoming summer activities this summer, it dawned on me that we’d have to interrupt the end of our school year to go on the trip we’d been planning for this summer. So… it’s been quiet here for over a month due […]
Ten Thousand Miles?!?
It’s been pretty quiet over here at Half-a-Hundred Acre Wood lately. That’s because we’ve just completed a 38-day road trip with over 150 stops in 20 different states crossing 4 different U.S. time zones and traveling a total of 10,334 miles (all in a minivan). And somehow I thought I was going to continue writing and posting […]
Christmas wRap 2013 – Our Year in Rhyme
Recounting the events of Twenty Thirteen January, December, and the months in between. Our year has been full of travel and fun, So let us track back through the things that we’ve done. January marked our first trip to Disney. Levi was enamored with a duck named Daisy. We met our good Florida friends at […]
Our Next 50 States Trip
We are currently planning one of our 50-States-Before-They-Graduate trips. This trip will include 8 states: Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. Our three main goals for each state is to Experience the countryside and soak in the beauty of God’s creation Delve into some history by visiting at least one […]
The Ship that Won the War
Three excited boys prepare to tour the LST-325 in the Cumberland River, Clarksville, TN. The LST-325 – a Landing Ship Tank, or amphibious vessel (I knew we’d get our memory work in there somehow! Ha!). This is the largest ship ever designed to place tanks, troops and cargo onto a hostile beach and then retract […]