Going roadtripping...with the kids

In front of the wood-burning stove, well into winter, we began our typical summer vacation daydreaming. We settled at last on a cross-country road trip from New York to Oklahoma, USA, to see family. Thus began our planning of a long car trip. I think of the process as part of the ever-present task of "educating oneself about parenthood" included in Attachment Parenting International's First Principle of Parenting.