More about biodiesel

OK so maybe we don't need 2 biodiesel campers, one can be a bus. I'd like to convert one of those tourbuses, like a rock star. OMG then I'd be more of a rock star than Fussy! Talk about going to great lengths to outdo someone, although there really is more to it than that, isn't there. Anyhow, so we're preparing to travel around in a bus with our 6 kids and a video production crew for 2-3 months. The first thing we need to do (OK one of the million things we need to do) is find a bus and convert it to biodiesel,or veggie oil there's a conversion kit that runs around $1000 and then of course, we need to find the diesel vehicle we'll be converting. Attention- if you own a biodiesel bus company and would consider loaning us one we'd treat it very nicely. And you'll get some press from it, too. Not only will I thank you to high heaven here on this blog, but we'll edit it into the opening credits of the travel documentary we're making for PBS and the children's travel show we're making for Discovery Kids. Not that discovery kids knows this, but whatever, they don't need to know just yet. PBS knows about the travel thing, though- and our first episode is seling wonderfully to the libraries and to the wineries. SO- here's my link to a company that makes converter kits for diesel engines. Hopefully they will notice a ton of traffic flooding in to them through this link and they'll come here to check it out and say to themselves "By golly, I'd love to send them 2 free biodiesel tour buses. Go ahead, keep them. And God bless you, green travel goddess." Golden Fuel Systems ansd there's also Greasecar Systems and Frybrid Diesel/Vegetable Oil

Hiking with seven 11 yr olds

That's what I'll be doing this June. Any advice? The girls have all decided to spend a day in the mountains. Actually to be honest, they wanted to camp overnight but the whole idea just sounds way too dirty for me, and neither of us Girl Scout Troop leaders has or wants to get our outdoor training, so we're going to use our mom-mind-powers to get the girls to decide they'd rather go up for the day, and buy matching T-shirts with the proceeds from their cookie sale.

So- we can still do the camp fire, roast marshmallows, play in the woods and in the lake, and get just as dirty as we wanna get, but we don't have to sleep that way and we don't need to get a special license from the Girl Scouts.

toddler destroys ancient art with sippy cup.

I just wanted to share a delightful article about traveling with children. I was hooked the minute the child threw her sippy cup at the world famous painting. Anyhow, it's a great read on flexibility while traveling with children. Something I'm going to need a lot of soon. Enjoy the article

We need two Biodiesel Campers

Strange thing to need, isn't it but my task tomorrow is to start to learn about such things. This travel documentary we started filming only 6 years ago, before our wonderful detour, is just about finished and we're doing a feasibility study now of spending a few months on the road filming more cities. While I love the idea of touring around for a little while, like a band of gypsies, and sharing space with 6 kids and a dog is really just part of life; sharing space with a mobile film studio does not sound like much fun. So if you want to teach me about biodiesel campers or some other form of green transportation for like a gigantic camper- please spare me the research and just send me a link, OK. If someone donates the vehicle, there will be shots of it all though the video.

Does it count?

As a road trip when we only went 3 miles from home? We got lost on the way there. It was the longest playday we've had in a while, our first major "haning out at someone else's house all day" kind of day in months and months. Quite a day, a much-needed rest for my soul with a very very good friend. We should go camping or something. To a spa or something. Maybe it's relevant to a travel blog because we both write hotel reviews. And, she has a really cool baby travel backpack thing. That makes this perfectly relevant for a travel blog. And we should go on vacation. Is that all of the vacation/travel keywords I can possibly make into a relevant post? Just following the rules here....

I want this Bike-thing

Not just because I am drooling over the family of 4 who is riding bikes from the top of Alaska to the southern tip of Brazil, but just because it looks like fun. It's a Caboose Bicycle It's cool, it looks like a tandem bicycle, and I think it attaches to a regular bike.

The ladies at 5 minutes for Mom have some great feedback from their customers about the product. Enjoy!

Is she there yet?

E1 is going to Portland with her singing group next month. It's not the family trip that's posted in the sidebar, but her very own thing. They're taking a tour bus and everything. I'm so excited for her, she's 14 now and I think she's mature enough for it and she's going to have so much fun. They have like 4 places they're singing, plus they're visiting Multnomah falls, the zoo, a shopping area, and a few other destinations, too. She took the initiative and wrote up a request for donations from family to fund the trip and I know she can't wait. In June she'll be going to New York with the same group, we've been doing fund raisers all year long.

Buy an old Ferry Boat and do this, OK

Buy an old Ferry Boat and decorate it all out, then rent the parking spaces for RV's and go on a big tour all over the place. Everyone will have their own RV to stay in, and the upstairs area, with the chairs and stuff can be turned into a nice cafeteria, a media room, maybe a swimming pool. Like an RV cruise. Yeah- do that soon. I wonder what the insurance would be like.