Author: Tina Dean
Source: ezinearticles.com

Taking your kids out of school for several weeks when you go camping and travel Australia can be a difficult choice. If you can include the usual school holidays and add a week or several weeks, it will impact a bit less on their lessons. It depends at what stage they are at school as it’s easier to take them out of primary school than secondary school.

Contact your child’s school and teachers and explain when you are going away and where so the teacher is fully aware of your plans. In my experience all the teachers had no problem with them missing school for a few weeks. Some of them said ‘they will learn a lot more’ as we were travelling Australia and were quite happy for them to go. A few teachers gave them work sheets to do or a novel to read while they were travelling and asked them to do a daily diary of their travels.

My family have had two 6 week camping trips, the first in 2000 & the 2nd in 2003 where my 3 kids were taken out of school for 4 weeks each time as we included the June holidays both times.

The first trip we went on my kids were 7, 10, and 12 years old, the eldest being in the first year of secondary school. We travelled from Victoria to Central Australia, to Darwin, Kakadu and back down through Outback Queensland and New South Wales.

The second trip they were 10, 13, and 15 so this time 2 were in secondary school. This time we travelled from Victoria to Alice Springs, on the Tanami Track to The Kimberley, around the Gibb River Road, then to Katherine and down the Stuart Hwy to home.

The diaries that they made and the photos we took are great to look back on. They added an entry in the diary each day, with a few paragraphs, noting where we travelled to or from, what they had seen and experienced. Then they included a small brochure. postcard or cut out pictures from larger brochures.

Tina Dean is the founder and editor of the family Friendly Oz Camping Guide. Her site specializes in information about family camping, including tips, checklists and suggestion for how to go travelling Australia. http://www.familyfriendlyozcamping.com.au/

Author: Perry Wilk
Source: ezinearticles.com

Recession, mass layoffs, weak dollar… With all of these things to think about everyday, who can think about travel?? Well there are still ways to travel on a budget, you just have to know what you are doing. And if you don’t travel secrets you better know someone who does. People like Rick Steves have been traveling for years and have learned all the tricks. We don’t need to re-invent the wheel here, lets just take some advice from someone who has been there.

I recently took a trip to Germany and I learned many things the hard way. I figured people travel everyday, how hard could it be? I was wrong and since my trip I realized that if I had picked up a guide book or two I could have avoided some uncomfortable situations. Better yet if I had a book that told me specifically what to look for that really could have streamlined my trip!

But lets talk for a second about American travel. Lots of people these days are putting their RV’s in storage due to the high gas cost. Well great news, gas prices have dropped significantly and there is no better time to travel by RV than right now!! And since you are saving money on gas why not save money are other things as well!?! There is still time to see the Grand Canyon, Mt. Rushmore, the Badlands, and Wall Drug of South Dakota. So get out there this summer and travel the country by RV while following in the footsteps of professionals.

Learn from someone who has been down the road less traveled and survived the trip!

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