Family Gains Life Lessons While Traveling And Road Schooling In An RV

Going by memory and a little research, Tammy Lewis was doing her best to engage her 3- and 5-year-old sons, Tommy and Kenny, in a conversation about the Battle of the Little Bighorn, during a home-schooling session. To her benefit was the fact that her family’s “home” was an RV, parked at the site of General Custer’s Last Stand, in Big Horn County, Montana.

John and Tammy Lewis were already living a busy life when the pandemic reached the Peninsula. During the first few of weeks of the COVID-19 quarantine, the Carmel couple found themselves flung into a chaotic routine of full-time work with their construction firm, while figuring out how to home-school their sons in the absence of child care. It wasn’t working.

They decided to simplify. After confirming their crew had things under control at the office, they grabbed the kids and grandfather Ken Lewis, 80, and climbed into a 40-foot RV, bound for Tammy Lewis’ native Wisconsin.

The plan was to spend four to six weeks of quality time together, while “road-schooling” their children across the country. Now starting their eighth week and in Wisconsin, they have no intentions of turning back. At least, not yet.

Check out the full article from the Monterey Herald here.