{"id":10661,"date":"2025-09-02T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/?p=10661"},"modified":"2025-11-02T16:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T22:33:08","slug":"september-2-2025-slc-to-charlotte-nc-then-to-columbia-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/2025\/09\/september-2-2025-slc-to-charlotte-nc-then-to-columbia-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2, 2025 SLC to Charlotte, NC, then to Columbia, SC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hello family!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave, Ammon and I are on a World School adventure for September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Backstory: A year ago I began learning about travel-hacking: strategizing your expenses through the right credit cards and turning those points into \u2018free\u2019 travel. *(see more at the end if you\u2019re curious)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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, \u201cYou are not obsessing. You are being driven.\u201d  Well then. Interesting. A couple of weeks later while weeding in my garden, still concerned I was obsessing, and why I was being \u2018driven\u2019, another clear thought, \u201cYou have a very small window.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ok then. I am being driven, and have a small window to do some traveling. Let\u2019s go. (We did lots of summer trips, including into the first week of Ammon’s ‘world school’ by going to Alaska.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few months ago I had dreamed\/planned that in September we would do an Africa trip. When we learned that Sam\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read the daily summary by Ammon, and if you want to read my pontification on the day. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mostly this is here to keep me and Ammon accountable in doing our homework and journal keeping for this trip!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

September 2, 2025 SLC to Charlotte, NC, then to Columbia, SC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u201cTiffany\u2019s Diner\u201d with southern food. Yum. We stayed at the LaQuinta Inn, in Columbia SC. (LaReita at the LaQuinta \u2013 haha.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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 \u2018free\u2019 travel. *(see more at the end if you\u2019re curious) I was starting to become concerned that I was … Continue reading “September 2, 2025 SLC to Charlotte, NC, then to Columbia, SC”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,8,4,10,6,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ammon","category-benjamin","category-david_berky","category-jacob","category-james","category-lareita_berky","category-samuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10669,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10661\/revisions\/10669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}