Hello family!
Dave, Ammon and I are on a World School adventure for September.
Backstory: A year ago I began learning about travel-hacking: strategizing your expenses through the right credit cards and turning those points into ‘free’ travel. *(see more at the end if you’re curious)
I was starting to become concerned that I was spending too much time on this and was becoming obsessed. While vacuuming at the temple late one night, pondering why I was obsessing about this, a clear thought came, “You are not obsessing. You are being driven.” Well then. Interesting. A couple of weeks later while weeding in my garden, still concerned I was obsessing, and why I was being ‘driven’, another clear thought, “You have a very small window.”
Ok then. I am being driven, and have a small window to do some traveling. Let’s go. (We did lots of summer trips, including into the first week of Ammon’s ‘world school’ by going to Alaska.)
A few months ago I had dreamed/planned that in September we would do an Africa trip. When we learned that Sam’s Basic Combat Training graduation would be at the beginning of September, I began planning to combine everything into a huge homeschool / world school month for Ammon. I would utilize my new knowledge of traveling.
You can read the daily summary by Ammon, and if you want to read my pontification on the day.
Mostly this is here to keep me and Ammon accountable in doing our homework and journal keeping for this trip!
September 2, 2025 SLC to Charlotte, NC, then to Columbia, SC
We flew into Charlotte NC, got our rental car, started driving down to Columbia, South Carolina. Fort Jackson is in Columbia SC. We stopped at a trucker-stop greasy-spoon “Tiffany’s Diner” with southern food. Yum. We stayed at the LaQuinta Inn, in Columbia SC. (LaReita at the LaQuinta – haha.)
