Our family in Joshua Tree at golden hour — Cy, Erika, Big and Little against monzogranite boulders.

Raise the question askers.

Meet the Roam School Family.

Cy and Erika met in San Francisco, raised Big and Little there, then moved north to a Portland suburb. Somewhere between the two we figured out that the four of us learn best by doing — standing in front of the thing.

Cy and Erika are on sabbatical from leadership roles in tech. There's a small window — a few years where the four of us can do this together before it costs Big and Little something — and we're spending it revisiting ourselves and reconnecting with the country we live in.

A trail map and a kid's notebook on a picnic table — the homeschooling rig at rest.

Real talk.

We're four people in a vehicle, working our way through the 63 U.S. national parks and the country between them. Big does math at the picnic table in the morning. Little is on a "draw what you see" rotation that has produced, to date, eleven bison and one ranger's hat. Erika keeps the rig running. Cy writes.