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Yesterday, we made it from Mitchell, South Dakota, all the way to Kansas City, Missouri! Another long day on the road, another state crossed, and another chapter of our family’s pilgrimage underway.

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Well, it's official! Our family of five is now proudly sporting South Dakota driver's licenses and identification cards!

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Our final weekend at the Lake of the Ozarks, a very Catholic Halloween, an enormous game of Tetris, and the next chapter of our family's pilgrimage.

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Our Jeep Wagoneer is looking more and more like an expedition vehicle these days, and I absolutely love it!

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There are places you visit, places you frequent, and places that become part of your family's story.

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Well, this blog post is overdue! We've been busy settling into this new way of life, figuring out where we're headed next, and finally finding something that resembles a routine. And I think we're getting the hang of it!

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It's hard to believe that our last journal entry was on Thursday, October 8th, the day my grandmother, our beloved Grandma Lo, passed away. So much has happened in the ten days since then. We've traveled hundreds of mile...

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In the wee hours of this morning, my grandmother, Lorraine Rozier, passed from this life at the age of 94.

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Sitting vigil beside someone you love, waiting for them to die, is hard.

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Sunday began with donuts.

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Today we went looking for apples.

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The forecast said 100% chance of rain, and for once, the forecast was not exaggerating.

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Wednesday was our first real day of settling into this new little rhythm of life at the Lake of the Ozarks.

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When we tell people we’ve sold or given away most of what we owned, left our home in Kansas, and plan to worldschool our children while traveling, there are some very reasonable questions.

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Tuesday morning, we left Warrensburg and headed toward our new temporary home:

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Everyone except Ellie started Monday morning with a soak in the hot tub.

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After five weeks of packing, selling, giving things away, making dump runs, moving things into storage, and repeatedly saying, “We’re almost done,” we finally did it.

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