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I’m a Wisconsin girl chasing that feeling of childhood wonder | Ideas & inspiration for those who haven’t grown up & those who wish they hadn’t.
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As a child I was enchanted with school field trips. I loved the specially packed lunches, the journey, the excitement, being with friends, and discovering new people, places, and things.
I grew up living life as if every day was a field trip; filled with new things to discover. My Field Trip Training started when I was young. My parents put us in “boot camp” right away, especially my mother. Every negative was turned into a positive, nay, an opportunity. If we were lost, it was “an adventure!” We were lost a lot. If our well thought out plans for a road trip went wrong and we ended up at a mechanic’s getting the family vehicle repaired in a new state, it was “an adventure!” My mother found, and showed us, the adventure in everything, in every day.
As a family we traveled the United States when my brother and I were fairly young. We took our first road trip outside our country in fifth grade on a family road trip to Ontario, Canada. I’ve traveled the world, near and far, ever since, but it wasn’t until our son was born that I realized I was living a field trip lifestyle. I started to see the world through his eyes; everything was, and is, amazing. We’re trying to instill that same sense of adventure in our son.
As a mother that works a full-time job outside the home, more often than not our field trips are close to home and often serendipitous. I hope to take you on our field trips, both mundane and exotic, whether it’s an unexpectedly eventful trip to the grocery store or our annual road trip to Colorado.
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Feel free to email me at lifeasafieldtrip@gmail.com!
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Hi, my husband and I feel the same sense of finding adventure in the everyday. We get told quite often that we are never at home. Even if we are out and out about in our home base of Omaha, NE we are out finding new things to do and see. Just as an example, we were out this morning to discover pelicans at a nearby lake. Except at a wildlife safari park nearby, I had not seen any pelicans in the wild in this area. We try to share our adventures with everyone through our posts. We have even started touring state capitols with the same wonderment like a field trip taking in the history and the architecture of it all.
Thanks for sharing your adventures.
http://www.thewalkingtourists.com
It’s fantastic to hear from other adventurers with the same sense of wonder! The state capitols sound like a great idea. I’ll have to keep that one in mind for future field trips.
I’m stopping by from the Mommy Blogger group. I LOVE your concept. Your pictures are beautiful snaps of how everyday an be beautiful.
Thank you so much for the compliment!
I am a 4th generation Wisconsinite. When our children went off to college, they left the state. Well, what else could we do but follow. We live in Utah and now our weekend trips are in the west. I’m looking forward to following your blog. Love it.
Thank you for stopping by and thanks for the compliment!