Have you ever considered roadschooling? We’ll chat with Bethannah Guzman on today’s episode and learn about the ins and outs of traveling full-time across the USA in an RV with her family. What do you need to know before you take homeschooling on the road? Join us for this interesting inside peek into the life of a road schooler!
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About Bethannah Guzman
Bethannah communicates with us from the road where she travels full-time across the USA in an RV with her husband, two of her four kids & her dog Hatch! She is writing her first book based on the true story of overcoming trauma. She teaches others how to heal through the power & strength of the Holy Spirit & defeat the enemies’ ploys to derail our lives. This book has a written foreword by Super Model turned Business mogul Kathy Ireland.
She spends her days Roadschooling 2 of her children and writing for her blog on BethannahGuzman.com. You can find her on Instagram @lovebethannah where she shares pictures and videos of their adventures. Through her travels, Bethannah inspires others to discover how their journey in life coincides with their Spiritual Adventure in Christ!
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More About Roadschooling
Abby: Welcome to episode 150. We have a great topic for you today and a great guest as well. We’re chatting with Bethannah Guzman who is a full-time road schooler. I know some of you have been considering selling your home downsizing, working on the road, and taking home schooling on the road because imagine all the amazing opportunities and things your kids can see and experiences you can have as a family. It’s very tempting.
And now more than ever it’s quite possible because a lot of us can work from home. So, home can be wherever you want to park your RV. Right? So, I’m so glad we had this chat with Bethannah. She has a lot of information, interesting insights that you’re going to want to listen into. And then check out the show notes where we will link to all Bethannah’s sites and the way you can contact her and check out what she’s doing on the road. So, this was a fun interview. I know you guys are going to love it. Here’s my conversation with Bethannah Guzman.
All right. Bethannah, I’m so happy to have you here today. We’re talking about the awesome topic of road schooling. But before we kind of get into the nitty gritty because I know everyone wants to know what’s your life like. But first just kind of tell us about your family who travels with you and that kind of thing,
Bethannah: Awesome. Well, my husband and I were high school sweethearts, and we were married at 19. We’ve been married for 22 years and have four kids and our kids range in age from 21 to 7. So, my oldest is independent and on his own my second oldest is in college after graduating from road school last year. And then we’ve got two little ones that I road school currently and they are 11 and seven years old.
Abby: Wow. And do you have pets on the road with you too?
Bethannah: We have one dog, his name is Hatch, and he is in English Labrador and he’s white, he’s super cute and he loves it.
What is Roadschooling?
Abby: wow, alright so we hear this term road schooling thrown around. I’m sure it can mean different things for different people because I’m sure some people do these temporary trips right? They’re not on the road full time but kind of give us a little definition, what do you consider road schooling and why did you choose to do it? And how long have you been doing it?
Bethannah: That’s a great question. Road schooling is something that is, that’s the way we started off, we were home schooling and really got into road schooling. I mean traveling, we’ve always taught our kids wherever we traveled to. So, it was kind of an intro into that.
So even if you’re at home you can road school and we are now road schooling full time. I would classify road schooling. Learning comes through experiences. Road schooling teaches through your five senses taste you get to taste different foods and from all the different locations that you go to. Like if you’re in Louisiana, you’re going to have food from there and if you’re up in New Jersey, you’ll have or New York City or whatever, you’re going to taste different stuff. So, you get tased and then touch, you get to touch the starfish and the trees and the elements and then see site.
You get to see all the different landscapes, architecture, culture. And then the smells, you’re going to smell different smells from the beaches, from the forest, from the farmland and cities and then hearing is the different sounds and the places we go. So, from big cities to being in the mountains to being in a forest. Rivers. You know all the different sounds that you hear when you’re out in, in places even if its cities. So yeah, that’s the beauty of road schooling is that it really incorporates all five senses of learning and brings it all together. And your kids just really hold on to that information that they learn because they experienced it now.
Abby: Did you say you’ve been road schooling the whole time that you’ve been homeschooling? Is that what I heard?
Bethannah: Well, yes. Okay. Okay. Yes, I am now full-time road schooling. But prior to this, when I was home schooling at home or when my kids were in private school. And public school we would road school in the summertime or on breaks. It’s just, we’ve always incorporated travel in ever since my oldest ones were little. So, it’s just always been a part of our family.
Downsizing
Abby: Now, did you have to, I’m guessing you, did you sell a home then when you decided, hey, we’re doing this full time? You had to sell your house, downsize all that stuff?
Bethannah: We sold everything. I mean everything. We were living in our dream neighborhood. and we had basically the American dream all together. So, we sold everything, our house and all of our belongings in our house, everything to hit the road.
So, we do have a storage unit that holds, you know, our memories and the things that I don’t want to get rid of, but we’ve really turned into minimalist. I never, I was, I was a professional organizer prior to this for a few years and so I’m a pretty organized person, but I never imagined that you could live with so little and actually have such a full life. So, we’re really learning how to do that and it’s, it’s awesome. We’ve learned a lot.
Abby: It probably feels a bit, really, I don’t know what the right word is. You get a lot of stress off your shoulders when you don’t have to maintain a property in the house and all that stuff, right?
Bethannah: Yeah, there’s not any landscaping to do, You’re not worried. I mean you have to maintain your rig and that’s a lot of learning, a lot of watching YouTube videos, a lot of getting to know other people that do this. There’s a lot of road schooling families, so we really lean on each other to, to learn how to do the maintenance on the rigs.
But yeah, there’s, you know, a lot of times you’re spending your nights and weekends running around doing all kinds of things, extracurricular activities, or you’re, you know, doing stuff to your house or your yard or whatever. So, all of that is really taken off the table. You don’t have those other things that are taking up your time anymore.
Homeschooling on the Road
Abby: Now would you say your homeschooling style changed when you took it on the road or where you are? How would you describe your homeschooling style because I know it sounds, I mean you can get so much history and science and culture, and all that stuff done on the road. So, I’m sure you don’t have a whole lot of formal academics you feel like you have to cover, right?
Bethannah: Yeah. We have a very eclectic homeschooling style. We did prior to this, but now it’s eclectic. I say that it’s a mix of Waldorf, Montessori, classical, unit studies. We unschooled and do a lot of online. I use Gather ‘Round homeschool curriculum, which is easy for me to do while I’m on the road because I, I can use my printer and print out the curriculum as we go. and then we use Teaching Textbooks for math and Khan Academy for my little one.
So we tackle our core subjects like math,Bible study, reading and writing at home using these curriculums. But otherwise, I design history, economics, science, government, politics, and all of that around our traveling, which makes it really cool and it brings these subjects to life and teaches them in real time.
I also implement teaching through free educational materials from places like the national parks that use junior ranger programs to educate all the museums and aquariums offer free principles and online curriculum on their website. So, we utilize a lot of that. A lot of National parks will have YouTube channels that they actually teach. So, before we go to that national park we will watch those YouTube channels that what we’re going to see so that when the kids see it, they get excited. They can name it; they know the definition. It’s part of the vocabulary. It’s part of spelling. So, we incorporated all of that into our road school experience.
Benefits of Roadschooling
Abby: Now. I’m just curious where have you been so far in your travels? And did you have a favorite spot that you’ve been?
Bethannah: Oh my gosh, yes. Well, so far, we’ve only traveled to southwest because my husband is opening locations all over the southwest for his company. so which is great because there’s a lot to see in the southwest. My favorite thing so far has been northern California. that’s where the redwoods are and the massive trees that just take your breath away and you’re like, gosh, God is so incredible that he, I just created all of this for us to see and experience and we get to see it right in front of our eyes.
So, there’s, there’s a lot of things in these national forests up in northern California that I’ve never seen with my own eyes before. we got to watch a starfish eating a clam right on the beach, tearing open the clam shell and pulling out the gun. It was amazing. And I’m like, you don’t, you know, you only see that in videos or on the, you know the National Geographic Channel or something.
So that has been so exciting to me to see these things come to life, not only from my kids. I mean I’m learning more than I ever did in school and you know, loving every ounce of it. So, I’m learning with my kids and then when we see something that we don’t know anything about, I mean it literally triggers questions constantly, even down to the homeless population in san Francisco and why is that? You know, literally it just brings all these things, it brings up emotions so we can talk about emotions, it brings up, you know politics. It brings up everything. So, there’s not a subject or a topic that is untouched because it’s in your face and you can’t get around it? So, we love that part.
Abby: That’s awesome. What are you, what are your plans for the future? Do you have? hey, we want to get to this state, we want to are you planning to do the whole country eventually? What are your thoughts there?
Bethannah: Yeah, we want to do the whole country. we, our plans right now is he’s opening up these locations. Things will die down a little bit and you know, hopefully and we can start to travel in other places thankfully he has a job that allows him to work from home and we just have to go to these locations and see him and stuff.
So, but yeah, our plan is to continue to road school, we were on our second year right now and I, I probably do this for a couple more years. We’re loving it. There’s no end in sight right now and we don’t really have a plan to stop as of right now. but eventually we will probably settle down again.
How to Make a Living on the Road
Abby: Now, you know, that is you brought up a couple of times your husband and kind of, he can work from home. That’s always everyone’s question, right? Like what do people do for a living when they’re traveling or you know, how do they fit in their work? So, whether it’s your story or other road schoolers, you know, can you give us a little peek into some of the things people are doing to, you know, have an income while they’re traveling? What do people do?
Bethannah: Yeah, that’s such a good question and so exciting. And one of the blessings that came from Covid, there’s been so many blessings that have come from Covid if you look at it in that aspect. But one of the things that a lot of companies are allowing people to work from home now and I’m talking to you from my rig right now with internet from an RV park.
So, you do have, you know, my husband is on his calls in the back of our RV right now and he’s working and I’m talking to you. So, you know, we’ve met doctors, we’ve met traveling nurses. We’ve met some people who are in the military that are stationed in different places. we have met online teachers, we’ve met, I mean, you name it, there’s, I mean there’s even people that have really gotten into, there’s a lot of business to be made for entrepreneurs that are working on rigs or you know, there’s all kinds of things out there that you can do and work on the road.
I personally am the owner of handcrafted affirmations and it’s an online Christian store that specializes in handcrafted items that are designed to be daily reminders and our identity in Christ. I’m also a writer and I’m currently working on two books. One is on road schooling and restoring my vintage pink retail camper that we take everywhere we go. And we’re revamping the RV that we live in. The other book is about taking back your power after trauma and living the abundant life, Jesus gave came to Give Us. And that book has a written forward by supermodel slash business mogul Kathy Ireland. So that’s really fun. So, I write, I wrote school and I run my online business that is on my website, so that makes it really fun too. And I bring all my items with me, and I make them and all that.
Managing Schedules
Abby: So cool. Do you follow then a schedule or you do you have school days, workdays, and then you have travel days, or you know, field trip days? How do you manage all of that?
Bethannah: That’s a great question. I will tell you and anyone who’s interested in doing this, I will tell you that the first year, just like a lot of us who started our first year in home schooling, you have no idea what you’re doing and you’re trying to do it just like everybody else, you know, or you’re trying to do it like public school, like what you always grew up thinking school looked like and I have to say it’s the same thing with this lifestyle, you have to throw everything out the window that you were taught or think is the way to do things because it’s nothing like that. You have to truly create a new routine.
And I’m just going into my second year now and I’m really starting to get a rhythm for our routine. It’s not quite exactly where I want it yet. But I schedule Wednesday’s where I don’t school the kids at all. They do. I mean they do their own personal school stuff online. But I am, that’s my writing day. That’s my workday. That’s when I get my stuff done. and then I just have scheduled time with them in the mornings that I do.
And then we typically will travel on a certain day of the week. So, we always kind of no in the back of our mind. We’re going to travel on this day. So don’t make any meetings for this day. Don’t, you know, whatever it is. And we were pretty good about that. So, we’re starting to get into a rhythm of our schedule. But we do. yeah, we’ve had to figure it out along the way. Just like all of us, you know.
Finding Community
Abby: Okay. Everyone’s also wondering about this. You know, how do you handle living in such a small space with your family or their challenges. I’m sure there are. But you know, And then also, what about community? Because when you’re not in the same spot where you’re always, you know, you have your home school group, or you have your church or whatever. Is it difficult because you are always changing locations or how do you work around that?
Bethannah: Okay, so I’m going to answer the second question first and then remind me of the first question. There is an amazing community out here, if anyone’s interested in doing this, even if they’re wanting to do it part time, it’s called full time families.
And you can find that on Instagram, you can find their website, but basically, it’s like an online homeschool group, but it’s road schooling and these are families that that road school part time and full time. And we’ve met people from all over the country and families altogether and they’ve got you know, small groups that you can meet online. Again, it’s another blessing from Covid a lot of us are Skyping and doing this kind of thing.
So, you have your Bible study groups and your youth groups and all that kind of stuff online. so, it’s created that, but they also meet up and so there can be a group that’s here right now in California and they’re like, hey let’s all meet up here and you do things together. and then they’ve got annual things where everybody meets at Disneyland, or everybody goes down to Mexico together or whatever.
There’s always a huge big one that they plan every year and then there’s a few smaller ones and then there’s local ones that you can do. So that’s the that’s the road schooling aspect of it as far as fellowship and things like that. My husband and I have both been in bible study prior to hitting the road prior to Covid and once Covid hit they all went online. So we’ve continued that with our same exact group.
In fact, my Bible study leader is is Kathy Ireland and that’s how I got to know her and she became a really good friend of mine. But she so we we’ve been able to have community through our bible studies that hasn’t changed. And then you know, so and then we have our friends and family from regular life.
How to Live in a Small Space
Abby: So what about the space issue? do your kids mind being, you know in an RV which is smaller than your house used to be or how does that transition even for you and your husband? I know you said it was kind of relieving to say, okay we’re going to be a little more minimal. You have to be. But was there was that hard? Also how do you deal with being on top of each other.
Bethannah: Yeah. So we’re really blessed and fortunate we have a really big rig. This is larger than most people when I tell you the size you’re going to laugh it’s compared to a house it’s like what? but our rig is 488 square feet and it’s 44 ft long. So that is huge for an RV. It’s 1/5 wheel and it has a garage in it which could typically that’s where people put their side by side, you know four wheelers, or they can even put a small car in there. That’s how big the garage of our RV is.
So, we’ve actually we’re in the process right now of turning that into our master bedroom and giving our two little ones our current master bedroom. It has been that has definitely been a tricky part of it. And they’re every family will tell you different things because they’re spaces are all different. But you do figure out you know we basically have car we’ve made little sections of our house for us to have independent time, you know for sleeping and for eating and for business and work and all that kind of stuff.
Enjoying the Outdoors
But you know the beauty of this lifestyle is that a lot of our life is outside. It’s living and it’s being out and about and all of that. So you know, so we’re not just in a house that’s the beauty of it, you know we’re all different places. So if my husband wants to go sit at a coffee shop and do his meetings, he can do that. If you, if the kids want to do schooling outside on the picnic bench, they can do that or we can do it in a national park and you know, so it’s not like we’re all together all the time, that’s typically just at night when we’re going to bed or watching movies and that’s cozy time.
Anyways and most families are sitting in their living room and it’s less than 488 square feet or you know what I mean? Or the same size and you’re cuddled up together anyways and doing it in the same amount of space. So yeah. And as far as clothes and shoes and all that stuff, we have broken it down to like I said, minimum, minimizing absolutely everything. So, my kids probably have a week’s worth of clothes that we wash and they’re great clothes. They look super cute, and they’re always look put together. but we don’t have an excess of anything. We’ve got our play shoes, we’ve got nice shoes, three pairs of shoes, each type of thing and just keep everything super organized.
The Best Parts of Roadschooling
Abby: What are the best parts of road schooling? I know we’ve already kind of, we could hear a little, a few of these things as we’ve been talking, but can you just give us a few more ideas for people who are like, oh this is sounding really good, can you sell us on this? What are the best parts of road schooling do you think?
Bethannah: Oh my gosh, the freedom! Oh since I mean since mandates, I mean that that was really what, what catapulted us and we were we are done and I know so many families can relate to this just feeling the restriction of mandates and all of that was just we weren’t going to have it and there’s just so much life to live and that is part of what I believe.
You know, one of my books is about the enemy wants to come and rob steal and destroy your life and he does that in so many creative and yucky ways and a lot of those things just keep you kind of stuck and not being able to or you know, you feel like you’re stuck and it kind of keeps you from growing and moving forward. And so, I had just gone through an immense amount of healing from abuse from my childhood and I was ready to just fly. It was so in such a good place and then mandates happened and everything got locked down and nobody knew what to do and there was nothing open and all of those things.
Thinking Outside the Box
So, this was just like, well you’re working from home, I can do my business from home, I can write from anywhere, let’s figure this out. I mean there’s a lot of dad’s for instance, let me just give some moms who are listening right now and dads who are listening right now, some examples, You know, my sister has a husband that travels on business all the time, all over the country to really cool places and so I’ve met families that are like that, they’re like, oh, you know the dad is going to be on a business trip in Boston. We’re all going to drive there instead of fly there and we’re going to go and spend that week in Boston and he’ll spend a few extra days, there are an extra week there because he, when he’s not traveling, he works from home anyways.
There’s a lot of flexibility and people just, it’s about kind of thinking outside the box and not thinking in traditional ways and thinking that you’re, you’re stuck in having to do it the way everybody else does it. So I think for us, it just kind of triggered this hey, wait a second, Nobody knows what they’re doing right now, The world is upside down. It’s absolutely crazy. Everybody’s looking to homeschoolers right now trying to figure out how to actually school from home and we’ve been homeschooling, we’ve got that part figured out.
Family Memories
But now we’re trapped in our house and we have nowhere to go. And there’s so much to see and experience and do. So what are we going to do and that’s where this idea came from and we kind of started researching it and there’s a lot of families, they do this, there’s a lot of Youtubers that you can follow that do this and, and we just got really inspired by them and decided to sell everything and do it ourselves. So I think the best part is the freedom and the things that my kids get to see and myself, I should say that we get to see and do and experience are things that people don’t even get to see in a lifetime.
You know, before we were doing vacations once or twice a year and now, we were literally just like seeing things and spending time in places, you know, we’ll spend a month in southern California and really get to explore it and see it and, and, and experience it. When you’re on vacation, you’re kind of coming down from life, you’re coming down from work and all the stresses and you are only there for a week, you know, so you’re not really getting to see and feel everything.
This really gives you an opportunity to experience the locations you’re going to and expose your kids to things that they may never, you know, have gotten an opportunity to see and experience. I think that, you know, as a childhood, I don’t know, at the end of the day, I don’t know what my kids are going to walk away with, but I can tell you, I feel like they’re learning more through this experience and they would have sitting in a classroom without a doubt. So I’m just, I just feel really fortunate to be able to do this. And I think that because of Covid, because of the blessings of Covid, there are a lot more families that have the opportunity to do this.
Abby: Yeah. Just imagine their childhood memories and the stories they’re going to tell, you know, after they grow. I mean, that is amazing, right? And not everyone gets those opportunities. So that’s awesome.
Bethannah: Yeah, we were laughing about that. We said, I wonder what they’re going to say, you know, at their weddings and stuff like that. what their childhood was like when they go to do, you know, interviews at companies and stuff. Like tell me about how you grew up, it’s going to be a funny story for sure.
Challenges
Abby: But you know, everything does have its challenges and we’ve also talked about a few of those along the way, but give people a sense of, okay, if they’re thinking of doing this, what are the things they do have to keep in mind? what are the things you want them to know that could be along the challenge side. Right? So what should they know before going into road schooling may be something you wish you would have known that you kind of give them a heads up.
Bethannah: Yeah, definitely. I think the number one thing that has really been difficult for me because I’m a really organized person is the routine being off that part of it, every time we move, every time we pick up and have to go to a different location, which you know, for us, there’s families that move every week, there’s families move every four days that that wouldn’t work for us.
It works for some families and that’s great. Everybody comes up with what works for them just home schooling. Right? so for us, you know, we like to stay places for about three weeks at a time. It gives me an opportunity to really dive in and go to the museums and take the kids places and, and also gives me opportunities to work and do what I need to do and all of that.
Learning a New Routine
So I would say the most challenging thing is getting used to not having a routine and really learning a new routine because this is not in a house, this isn’t, you’re going to take your kid to soccer practice after you’re done with school or you’re going to go to the ballet or whatever. This is completely different, and you never know where you’re going to be. You don’t know where the closest grocery store is.
You know, there’s, there’s a lot of things you have to learn. So I would say the first year give yourself an immense amount of grace, give yourself room to just really figure things out. even in your rig, figure out how you’re going to live before you even start changing anything because a year into this now, I can look around and say, I’m so glad I didn’t do this or that to the rig because that’s not how we live, That’s not what I was trying to duplicate life at home. You know what I’m saying?
It’s just the same thing with homeschooling. We try to duplicate, you know, public school or private school and it’s just not that way. It’s, it’s a different experience. So give yourself grace and figuring out what rhythm works for your family, for your husband’s schedule, for your schedule and how your kids are adjusting to things.
Finding Friendships on the Road
So that that would be my number one disclaimer about that. And then I would say, you do have to find creative ways to be in fellowship and, and be in relation the first year again, you don’t care about any of that. It doesn’t matter because you’re so excited and everything’s new and you don’t have time for friends.
But the second year you’re starting to realize, hey, you know what fellowship is really important friendships are incredibly important. So finding those ways of being in community, whether it’s in the R. V. Parks that you’re in, finding those local churches being on in online groups, having your kids be a part of those online groups. There’s no shortage of kids. One of the things that I will say that a lot of people are how do your kids have friends? And I can tell you this is a massive friend community.
I mean they have more friends and they’re doing more activities with kids. Let’s just put it this way. Every RV Park you go to is basically like going to a club med. They’ve got arts and crafts setup for your kids. They’ve got you know all kinds of course Backgrounding you name it, there’s all kinds of things you can do at different RV parks that brings the community together brings the kids together and then they make lifelong friends that they stay in touch with on Messenger kids or and you know other ways like that.
So and we’ve continued to see these type of these friends over and over again at different locations throughout the areas that we’ve been at. So it’s really cool and we’ve stayed in contact with these families and so it’s important to do that to make that a priority in in doing this.
Dealing with Different Personalities
Trying to think and I I think that the other part too is that you’re in close quarters. I don’t think that people that don’t like each other could do this. You can love your family, but if you don’t like your family, this would be a really hard lifestyle to do. And there are definitely personalities that couldn’t do this. I think about some kids that I know and I’m like, you know, whether their nephews or nieces or whatever and I’m like, there’s no way they could do this lifestyle, this, they would be irritated all the time or whatever.
So you really do have to feel out your own family and the personalities and what works for what my son, my teenager that we graduated from road school slash home school last year, he, he was only doing this with us, you know, his last senior year, which was really fun and we created that as, okay, senior year, this is going to be let’s, you know, road school and check off all the boxes of the places you want to go see and do and experience. So that was really fun.
But I couldn’t do that for more than a year with my teenager with him, you know what I mean? But his, you know, he was great, but it’s a tight space for five people in a dog. So you just have to, you know, but there’s families that have seven kids in an RV doing this, It’s crazy. So you just have to know your family, but that’s, that’s what I would say.
Living Expenses on the Road Compared to Before
Abby: Now I thought of something else that I maybe should have asked earlier, but I’m just curious. Do you find that living expenses, you know on the road, is it cheaper for your family than if you were in a home, you know in an actual house or, so when people are thinking, I wonder if we can take this on the road maybe their income doesn’t have to be as high as if they were maintaining a house and all that stuff. Do you find a difference or is it about equal until you pay for all the gas, and you keep your rig going? what do you think about expenses?
Bethannah: There is a road school mom which I think her Instagram tag is Something 303. I’ll have to give it to you and you can tag it in in in your post with this post. But she actually does a monthly budget where she shows exactly what they, you know what they spent on the whole month of moving and traveling and stuff like that.
It will look different for every family. But here’s what I will tell you about the good news about our society right now. Everybody’s housings are booming right now. So to sell your house and just cash out right now is really not a bad idea and that’s kind of what we did.
We sold at the height of the market for where we were. And you know, tuck that away and be able to just live and experience life now instead of waiting until you’re retired. you know, and it’s not to say that we won’t or don’t invest that money and while we’re doing this, that’s, that’s really smart to do that. but yeah, this is definitely a great way to pay off your debts.
It’s a great way to save money for dreams that you may have or what you want for the future because it’s actually much cheaper. Now, granted we are in southern California. We’re in California right now, this is the most expensive place on the planet.
We aren’t experiencing that big of a change, but if you’re, you know, traveling in different locations that definitely you have that ability to save a ton of money and we still do. Just don’t get me wrong, it’s still much cheaper, but it’s definitely more expensive in California for gas and food and all of that stuff, but it will be different wherever you travel and it is a lot less expensive than living in a home. So it does give you an opportunity to really prepare for the future and have some fun in the meantime, while you’re figuring it out.
Conclusion
Abby: That’s really helpful to hear your perspective. This has been a super interesting conversation, Bethannah. I’m glad you joined us. As we wrap up, just give us some any final advice final encouragement for families who want to try this. And then maybe just tell us where to find you online.
Bethannah: Well, first of all Abby, I just want to say I am one of your biggest fans and for the people that follow me on Instagram which is at Love Bethannah there’s a lot of roadschooling families that will get so much out of your website with so many printables and classes and things like that.
So I just want to let you know that I really appreciate all that you do for our community. because there’s a lot there. So I hope a lot of people go to your website.
My website is BethannahGuzman.com. I am actually going doing printables that you can pay for but are also free. So I would love for people to go to my website BethannahGuzman.com to find my blog on roadschooling and also the storefront that, that I have handcrafted affirmations that will have those principles that are free and also things that you can pay for. So yeah, that’s how you can find me. That’d be great.
Abby: Thanks for joining us today. Where’s your next trip then? Where are you headed?
Bethannah: We’re heading to Phoenix, Arizona for a few weeks. So that’s going to be fun. That’s home to us. So we’re going to get to see some family and friends and get back to the wonderful weather in March in in Phoenix. So that’ll be great.
